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Yaroslavl For Me Podcast, Episode 3 "The Volga River"

We carry on our podcasting with slidecasting and now we're glad to present the third podcast "The Volga river".

Table of content:

  1. Russian learning lesson with transcript: dialog "The Volga River".
  2. The song "My vmeste" of Yaroslavl music band Oskolki Neba. Russian music with lyrics.

And traditionally there are the extra materials:

Download Yaroslavl For Me Podcast, Episode 3 (mp3) or Subscribe to future podcasts.

Thursday, May 07, 2009 in . You can comment (already 2 responses).

The fountain with rainbow on Svoboda street in Yaroslavl

Fountain and rainbow

Beautiful fountain with rainbow we had seen on Svoboda street.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 in . You can comment.

May Day in Yaroslavl

There was May Day on the first of May. Seven thousands of Yaroslavl residents were on city's streets. It is a record for the past years.

People have gotten together on Truda square (площадь Труда) long before the start of the demonstration.

With beautiful thoughts, beautiful sentiments. We have not gone to the demonstrations for a long time. It's just a joy!

A column of thousands residents have marched through Svoboda street (улица Свободы), through Volkova square (площать Волкова) on Sovetskaya square (Советская площадь).

Using the materials of NTM.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009 in . You can comment (we have one response).

Alley on Sverdlova Street

Alley on Sverdlova street (улица Свердлова) in early May.

Monday, May 04, 2009 in . You can comment.

Yaroslavl For Me Podcast, Episode 2 "The Volkov Theater"

After publishing our previous podcast we rethought one's structure. Now it is made up of two parts: learning Russian lesson and Russian music (some Yaroslavl music bands). The common and main name of Yaroslavl For Me Podcast is Russian Language, Russian Music.

Another improvement is a change of the type. It's a slidecast! So, welcome our second podcast but the first slidecast "The Volkov Theater".

Table of content:

  • Learning Russian language lesson: the dialogue about the first Russian theater — the Volkov theater (in Yaroslavl).
  • One song Dennitsa of Vnuki Svyatoslava.

As in the previous time we provide the transcript of this podcast on Google Docs.

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Monday, May 04, 2009 in . You can comment.

Elks in the city

The operation to rescue the elks has been in Zavolzhsky district (Заволжский район) recently. Four young animals have been locked between a busy road and the wall of the rail carriage overhaul works.

Stand quietly, do not scare, do not go on the road: these rules was obligatory at morning of May 29th. Forest border was liked by the four young elks. At 8 a.m. a passerby saw the elks and than rescuer came.

The first time, the forest animals behaved quietly. While rescuers and huntsmens were thinking what to do with strayed animals, the elks have decided to take a small surprise. The animals have been scared by a locomotive horn and they've run straight to a busy road.

The elks have been stopped and managed to avoid serious consequences. A little later there was a plan to rescue animals from captivity: the rescuers have decided to block the road so the elks could go across the road. The animals were so glad the freedom that some of them decided to cross the Volga river. Witnesses have seen one of these near Tveritsky beach (Тверицкий пляж).

Thank you NTM News for the material.

Saturday, May 02, 2009 in . You can comment.

Yaroslavl Front Door #2: Kalmykovykh street

It is the second post of Yaroslavl Front Doors. In the previous time I told you about the front door on Kalmykovykh street, 5. Today the narration will about a front door on the same street.

So, object #2, address Kalmykovykh street, (ул. Калмыковых), 3.

The third building is the first of the set of working barracks. Initially, there were three-storey buildings but after there were four-storey. In spite of the front doors of different buildings are similar (they were made by the one author), the third building is different from fifth. It is tidier and even there is intact windows!

Why did it happen? Let's investigate the front door of third building →

Probably it can be defined by the following fact. A women who lives in that building said some quite interesting information:

— Our home is three hundreds years old, %#!
— The fifth is being totally resettled, there are 40 new flats, %$$#
— But there is no resettlement in that house across the street.

Probably, the residents of the fifth building are living "as at the last time" before the final resettlement and the residents of the third house are more careful with their own flats.

The door.

The door is unaltered for all buildings. There are no a combination lock and intercom: it is clear.

The staircase.

There is a similar version (like in fifth building). It is a beautiful hammering of the late of XIX century. There is a permanent and elegant handrail. We can see a load-bearing structure of the staircase which implements a decorative function.

Such hammering staircase is also sexual! If you are standing in the very bottom near the entrance door and a girl with spike heels are walking down the stairs, the whole front door is filled with a sexual clatter for three minutes. Who will be now from the top? WHO? The whole staircase is sexual vibrating. And no matter that your hopes and aspirations will be completely crushed… Main thing is anticipation.

Summary: the staircase is very loud and noisy, but it's not always harmful (for example, you live on the third floor than you can know about your visitors three minutes before).

The landing.

It is more quality than the landing of fifth building. Most of the window are untouched and we can imagine the author's concept — good illuminated front door. The floors are not so dirty that we can explore an embossing of tiles.

Moreover, even the glazing of corridor doors remains intact. The fact that the door wasn't burnt and the windows remain intact, tell us about the high resilience of spirit and purity of thoughts of the inhabitants of this front door.

This belief, however, has been broken when several empty bottles of vodka was seen on windowsill. But it is a nuance.

The trick.

At last, the third floor, attic hatch is not locked. According to all, the inhabitants of the building are not very fond of door locks and in general all things affecting the breadth of the spirit.

Climb to the attic, and, indeed, there is that which is difficult to get in other similar buildings of Yaroslavl. There is a huge rafter which holds the roof of the working barracks. It is more than 120 years old.

The rock paintings..

This inscription in full, at its root, destroys the very scientific sexology. (It's some words about sex in Russian. If you want to know more details, don't hesitate to contact us.)

Thanks to LiveJournal user yanlev for this amazing material.

Thursday, April 30, 2009 in . You can comment (already 8 responses).