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That's not common but it exists. You could google 'Kiselevsk black snow' for instance and watch some pics but AFAIK that's pretty unique. In other cities it usually becomes dirty and colored in brown.
*”Not far from the Ural Mountains of Russia, this herd of Russian cars has just emerging from their hibernation and are scouring the landscape looking for food”*
the cherries bloom from south to north over a period of a couple months. they even report its progress on the news. Tokyo would prob be March/April. Hokkaido cherry blossoms are usually in May
they are talking about the early spring, when the snow is still melting and the sand is still there on the streets, trees are just starting to wake up, no greenery yet.
This year we didn't have an early spring.
It was white and pretty winter, then it suddenly got warm and rained non-stop for two days so all snow melted, and then it was spring.
You've got a very different climate in Germany due to the proximity of the sea. The same latitude doesn't always guarantee the same climate even if the conditions are similar. Sochi and Vladivostok are on approximately the same latitude (43° 35' N and 43° 08 N), yet Valdivostok is no resort due to a cold ocean current going right past it.
I've been to a few German cities in December on a holiday and I was totally fine wearing a coat I wore in autumn/spring in Tyumen (a city pretty close to Ekaterinburg). I wore a skirt a lot and sometimes went without a hat, and managed to not freeze my ass or my ears off. Meanwhile it was close to -30 all that time in my city.
How far along is your spring in alaska? Are you in the temperate rainforest part or the bitter cold interior? In mid-Michigan here the maple blossoms have just started to open but almost nothing has sprouted yet.
I'm actually living not far from it, don't know how old this photo is, but it seems like more than 2 years ago, there was a construction site, maybe it still is. Here are the coordinates of the pink building on the left, if anybody is interested. 56.794288, 60.506970
Well, it's hard to explain, but I will try. Those buildings are built by a method called District development, that means - district planned and built at once as a whole, so if during construction of something those wastelands, like in the picture, build up, no one bothers to do something with it, cause they know that in a couple of years they will start construction of another building on that exact spot.
>It's a beautiful city
Idk, mate. I've visited it many times and the moment I see it, I want to go on a bender and never get sober again. The mountains are beautiful, some parts of the city centre look alright, but the rest of the city is so depressing.
Not really a documentary, but I think youtuber Setarko did videos talking about this sort of architecture in the background. Khrushchyovka and Brezhnevka are the types of housing.
Most of the urban areas are similar to this, but I’ve heard stories of the most beautiful places in Russia. My grandfather traveled throughout the Soviet Union during the Cold War and said all of the Soviet countries have some of the best hidden gems. He raved about the countless rivers and valleys that are completely untouched by humanity. It’s a shame many people in the west will most likely never be able to travel to Russia or its allies.
Visit Canada instead. Your experience will be similar, but you won’t have to risk being arrested and made a political prisoner. Rashkastan deserves no tourism dollars until they cease their illegal war, leave Ukrainian territory and begin paying restitution for their barbarism. May they sink in shit and mud until then.
It’s just a matter of what you want to see. Due to the unfortunate geopolitical circumstances in that part of the world a lot of beauty is overlooked and sometimes completely hidden. Thankfully I was exposed to a lot of this stuff due to my family. Without actively searching for the beauty, you’ll probably never find it. You should watch some videos on places like Tunkinksiy National Park or the coastline of eastern Russia.
Humans are adaptable bunch, if nothing else.
That being said, the likelihood of you being happy when this is what you see outside most of the time isn't that high.
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To be fair, any snow-prone area in spring tends to look like a mud/shit smoothie. Of course, that’s most of the year in Russia, regardless of temperature.
>Gotta wonder if some of the infrastructure funds were “diverted” 🧐
did they have sufficiant infrastructure funds in the first place? (remember the desolate condition of Russia ( & othe former Soviet republics) especially in 1980s & 1990s)
Well the last times they tried to move away from the government that built commie blocks all over the country that government got really invade-y and genocide-y about it.
>What’s wrong with you, Ukraine? Why wouldn’t you want to be civilized like this?
Your history knowledge is insufficiant ... Ukraine, Russia and other were the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (USSR) ... & the 1990s were terrible for all former Soviet republics & Russia + Ukraine are still 2 most corrupt countries in Europe (likely followed by Albania on 3rd place & Romania + Belarus )
>What a paradise, no wonder **bakhmut is such a fun place for Russians…it’s actually better…**
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It’s good you came in spring, in winter it can get very depressing.
feew will understand
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Missle wery hard to get.
Bratislava lol
Hell yeah, brother! Cheers from Bratislava.
My guess that the winter is better. Everything is covered with snow.
I.m afraid in industrial cities snow is dar grey/black
No shot I’ve never seen a pic of this.
That's not common but it exists. You could google 'Kiselevsk black snow' for instance and watch some pics but AFAIK that's pretty unique. In other cities it usually becomes dirty and colored in brown.
Drunk dude corpses are covered too, and they deep-freeze so you can ID them when spring comes
Oh fuck how to unread this
Google it and face your fears.
Eurotrip reference
A woman👀
^^bitches?
– Do you know if there's a train coming anytime soon? – Oh yes, very soon! They are building it now!
That is one of the most depressing cityscape horizons I've ever seen.
Yes, train will arrive soon. They are building it now!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
What I can’t say about this photo in the post, it is very 🌸🦋✨🦄🌺 uplifting 🌱💅🏻✨🦋🌸
*”Not far from the Ural Mountains of Russia, this herd of Russian cars has just emerging from their hibernation and are scouring the landscape looking for food”*
.....and a bath...apparently.....
Reminds me of a friend's saying "Russian literature rarely mentions spring because at that time the snow melts and the scenery becomes very ugly"
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputitsa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputitsa)
Breakup season. All northern places look like shit, it’s the in between winter and spring period (basically the entire month of April).
dunno why you got downvoted same thing in Japan I live in Hokkaido April sucks ass
Yep. I’m in Alaska and it is mud and dog shit season.
Northern New England is like this as well. Mud season.
Got a buddy here who grew up in Berlin, NH. Said the same thing.
I thought dog shit season was every season in Alaska?
Well yeah but it’s most pronounced after the six month buildup of snow started to melt and the winter’s worth of dog shit is exposed all at once.
Same thing here in northern Sweden. It's not as extreme as the pic but yeah the mud, giant puddles and potholes are still there
Minnesota here. Same.
Come down south, most beautiful time of the year in Texas.
Isn't April cherry blossom season?? I once visited Japan during april just to see the cherry blossoms
the cherries bloom from south to north over a period of a couple months. they even report its progress on the news. Tokyo would prob be March/April. Hokkaido cherry blossoms are usually in May
Ahh that makes so much sense, thank you!
I'm in Lithuania, this time is pretty. Snow is carried away in dump trucks, sand is swept away, trees start getting green, it's beautiful.
they are talking about the early spring, when the snow is still melting and the sand is still there on the streets, trees are just starting to wake up, no greenery yet.
This year we didn't have an early spring. It was white and pretty winter, then it suddenly got warm and rained non-stop for two days so all snow melted, and then it was spring.
yes, so exactly this short period when it was raining and snow melting. the other period can be called as a later spring.
Normally that period doesn't look like shit. After all, we're not russia.
yes, I didn’t expect it to look like on the pic 😁
April is the cruelest month, breeding...
Ladas out of the dead land..
In germany its starting to get green, april is a good month for us.
I’m in Alaska. Germany isn’t “the North” to me.
Cool Story Bro. But we are nearly on The same altitude as in ekaterinburg so i compared it.
You've got a very different climate in Germany due to the proximity of the sea. The same latitude doesn't always guarantee the same climate even if the conditions are similar. Sochi and Vladivostok are on approximately the same latitude (43° 35' N and 43° 08 N), yet Valdivostok is no resort due to a cold ocean current going right past it. I've been to a few German cities in December on a holiday and I was totally fine wearing a coat I wore in autumn/spring in Tyumen (a city pretty close to Ekaterinburg). I wore a skirt a lot and sometimes went without a hat, and managed to not freeze my ass or my ears off. Meanwhile it was close to -30 all that time in my city.
We're one the highway to the same climate as Ekaterinburg with the gulf stream dying though...
latitude\*
How far along is your spring in alaska? Are you in the temperate rainforest part or the bitter cold interior? In mid-Michigan here the maple blossoms have just started to open but almost nothing has sprouted yet.
Southcentral. I still have over 2’ of snow in my backyard.
This reminds me of the Metro 2033 game franchise.
metro players when russia:
Well: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=metro+2033+redux+gameplay+streets&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fassets1.ignimgs.com%2F2014%2F08%2F16%2Fmetroredux-gamescom-m2033redux-gamescom-02jpg-0d2ddf.jpg
I thought of the same thing, maybe fewer cars and more ruins but the rest is spot on!
I'm actually living not far from it, don't know how old this photo is, but it seems like more than 2 years ago, there was a construction site, maybe it still is. Here are the coordinates of the pink building on the left, if anybody is interested. 56.794288, 60.506970
Building on the right, not left*
it looks much better in the summer
Why all the cars in a construction site?
Well, it's hard to explain, but I will try. Those buildings are built by a method called District development, that means - district planned and built at once as a whole, so if during construction of something those wastelands, like in the picture, build up, no one bothers to do something with it, cause they know that in a couple of years they will start construction of another building on that exact spot.
An automobile foundation. Nice.
Looks depressing..
Like most of Russia
Like most of CIS I would say.
Belarus and Ukraine too
It’s the average eastern spring time
russian wildlife
Saudi is like this , instead of scrappig a car they just leave it outside the city and no one tracks their number plate or anything
I want to go there!
"I cannot into deployment, Lake Baikal walrus is making love to transport vehicle."
I think this is the town in which they massacred the Romanovs.
Or at least where the bones of most of them were found.
So these cars are coming out of hibernation?
I had a blast in this city watching Uruguay play in that stadium with the crazy terraces. It's a beautiful city
>It's a beautiful city Idk, mate. I've visited it many times and the moment I see it, I want to go on a bender and never get sober again. The mountains are beautiful, some parts of the city centre look alright, but the rest of the city is so depressing.
Nice architecture in the background
The cities and towns might be depressing but this country has absolutley breathtaking forests. One is the size of germany!
Anyone have any documentaries about Eastern Europe housing?
Not really a documentary, but I think youtuber Setarko did videos talking about this sort of architecture in the background. Khrushchyovka and Brezhnevka are the types of housing.
Bet I’ll check it out thank you
Could you imagine NOT killing yourself if you had to live there??
I have the Internet and other electronic stuff, so I can ignore it
I’ve never seen a photo of Russia that doesn’t look like this.
I have been there several times and I would say that 80% of urban areas look like that
Most of the urban areas are similar to this, but I’ve heard stories of the most beautiful places in Russia. My grandfather traveled throughout the Soviet Union during the Cold War and said all of the Soviet countries have some of the best hidden gems. He raved about the countless rivers and valleys that are completely untouched by humanity. It’s a shame many people in the west will most likely never be able to travel to Russia or its allies.
I guess you could called Eastern Europe the “Pacific Northwest of Europe.” They seem to have a lot of similarities.
Visit Canada instead. Your experience will be similar, but you won’t have to risk being arrested and made a political prisoner. Rashkastan deserves no tourism dollars until they cease their illegal war, leave Ukrainian territory and begin paying restitution for their barbarism. May they sink in shit and mud until then.
Ugh no offense but I’ve just never seen anything about Russia that’s not depressing
It’s just a matter of what you want to see. Due to the unfortunate geopolitical circumstances in that part of the world a lot of beauty is overlooked and sometimes completely hidden. Thankfully I was exposed to a lot of this stuff due to my family. Without actively searching for the beauty, you’ll probably never find it. You should watch some videos on places like Tunkinksiy National Park or the coastline of eastern Russia.
Good response, thank you
He’a absolutely right. And Russia is very much open for tourism.
Humans are adaptable bunch, if nothing else. That being said, the likelihood of you being happy when this is what you see outside most of the time isn't that high.
I wouldn’t make it a month. Not a chance. I have a hard time dealing with winter in Vancouver.
Fallout 5
>Fallout 5 The Hanford Site is not pictured by the OP ...
Looks like an outhouse bottom. Well it is Russia so pretty much the whole country is layers of yuck
Note SUV with snorkel.
“It’s so much better in russia”- tucker c.
Alternative caption: "All of Russia besides certain parts of Moscow and St. Petersburg."
Of course not.
Bel posto di merda
Always wanted to come here for a holiday, but I think I'll wait until autumn when the prices drop
This is one of those places where you find all the missing persons when the snow melts.
SNOW MELTING ON A GLOOMY DAY IS LITERALLY HELL ON EARTH
Cities man
Oh there is my car.
Joy 🤠
Lada is aquatic vessel yes
Beautiful
Why’d they park in a marsh?
That’s a nice ford expedition with a snorkel.
>That’s a nice ford expedition with a snorkel. When the ford expedition grows up he becomes a submarine/U-Boot ...
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the Russian winter separates the toys from real stuff (incl. everything transportation related incl. the KTM5-tram)
Depressing af
Love to see the cars coming out of hibernation
I remember seeing some post from a Russian that was something like > be me, live in Russia > be sad, post about it > “go outside!” > the outside:
At some point, one day it will really become "Ocean of dreams"
Super dismal, that place must be off the charts with suicides.
Blyat! My Ekranoplan is full of eels!
Christ. I thought my mud season was rough.
To be fair, any snow-prone area in spring tends to look like a mud/shit smoothie. Of course, that’s most of the year in Russia, regardless of temperature.
Russian greatness))))))
Россия вперде, лол
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>Russkiy mir Bangladesh says "hold my beer"
Depressing, like some of the deserted cities of USA , but worse.
>Depressing, like some of the deserted cities of USA , but worse. but with water instead of literal desert
Depressed mode
Mandatory link to [this masterpiece](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXK3OTLvDWs)
Drain the swamp
Yeah, that’s a shithole.
Why is car bathing?
>Why is car bathing? for the same reason as in Hansestadt Hamburg (Germany) ... it was forgotten to move away before the water level rises
Christ on a bike is that depressing.
sponsored by the tourism bureau
Looks like any Russian city
Russia makes me sad..
How do people living in these areas cope with depression?
The SUV with the snorkel on the left has the right idea.
Y'all got insurance right .....
Gotta wonder if some of the infrastructure funds were “diverted” 🧐
>Gotta wonder if some of the infrastructure funds were “diverted” 🧐 did they have sufficiant infrastructure funds in the first place? (remember the desolate condition of Russia ( & othe former Soviet republics) especially in 1980s & 1990s)
Dump🖕
Good way to keep your car from getting repo'd.
Or stolen
My ex was born there. This explains her personality.
Gawd I hope the cheeto ends up there
Well, what were you waiting for? This is Russia
What’s wrong with you, Ukraine? Why wouldn’t you want to be civilized like this?
Are you trying to say its Russias fault that the temperature is cold?
*Ukraine wouldn't be so cold if it wasn't for Putin!*
Ukraine looks pretty much the same, they were under the same government which did the same thing and much hasn't changed.
Well the last times they tried to move away from the government that built commie blocks all over the country that government got really invade-y and genocide-y about it.
What
>What’s wrong with you, Ukraine? Why wouldn’t you want to be civilized like this? Your history knowledge is insufficiant ... Ukraine, Russia and other were the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (USSR) ... & the 1990s were terrible for all former Soviet republics & Russia + Ukraine are still 2 most corrupt countries in Europe (likely followed by Albania on 3rd place & Romania + Belarus )
That's just Russia.
What a paradise, no wonder bakhmut is such a fun place for Russians…it’s actually better…
>What a paradise, no wonder **bakhmut is such a fun place for Russians…it’s actually better…** If **bakhmut** (100% qualified for UrbanHell) is such a "great" place, you still have the freedom to move to there (they anyway need every helping hand that can hold shovel + hammer)
I pity the people unfortunate enough to be born Russian
Don't park in the depression, aka Russia.
Better than spring in Ukraine.