If all your life you’ve wanted to visit Siberia, then these posts are written to motivate and inspire you.
And of course, I’ll start from the very beginning. Continue reading
Sheregesh | Snowboarding and mountain skiing
When you live in a region where winter continues more than six months, you are forced to survive (at least, you need to kill your time while people from other climate zones are swimming, surfing, biking and hiking). Continue reading
Khakassia, Tyva and Altai Republic | Trip across Siberia
Despite the old prejudices, now Siberia isn’t considered the back of beyond any more. Novosibirsk is the third biggest city in Russia with the branches of international companies, shopping malls, plants, and traffic jams. Hey, and we have UBER here! Continue reading
Medicine services in Russia
Have you ever watched Michael Moore’s documentary film ‘Sicko”? It’s quite interesting as devoted to medical issues of different countries (and we, people, are always curious about different sides of living abroad, aren’t we?). Actually, I wonder if everything mentioned in that film represents the real facts, without distortion? Something seems a bit strange to me, and some facts I just can’t understand as I live in another context.
Having watched this film, I decided to write a post about the Russian health system (and to compare it with other countries). So, maybe you’ll be confused as much as me. Continue reading
Russian Housing
People’s tendency to take phrases (and photos) out of context always puzzles me. Not long ago I found an interesting discussion on Internet where one man insisted that there are only old, awful houses in Russia, showing one of the ‘khrushevka’ photos from my blog. It won’t surprise me, if this man has never been to Russia.
Technology Park in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok
There is a special district in Novosibirsk called Akademgorodok (or Academy Town in English). This place is considered to be a scientific center of Novosibirsk and the whole Siberian region: there located the major Novosibirsk university, research institutes and the Technology Park. The latter is what I am going to show you today.
Altai Mountains trip 2014
Altai mountains (or Altai Republic) is definitely our favourite travel destination in Russia, and when an opportunity occurs we always try to go there. You can read the post about our last trip here – Ukok plateau 2012.
The first part of our trip (the southern side of Teletskoye lake) on Google maps:
Auto politeness or Russian driving style
Not long ago our friend came back from Bangkok (he had been living here for more than 1 year) and we discussed some peculiarities of drivers of these two countries. So, this text will be the start of the driving theme posts.
Daily biking
2 days ago we took a short ride because the temperature seemed to be going up (a bit). Yes, I hope summer has finally come.
I did tell you there are no special bike paths in our city and in many others, so, if you want to ride a bike, you have several ways out: Continue reading
Notes on Siberian weather
As you know Russia is a big country which stretches for thousands of kilometers and covers different climate zones. That’s why weather in regions may differ. Actually, Siberian summer didn’t please the last 2 or 3 years. Last year, for example, it was snowing on the first day of summer. Of course, snow melted away in a couple of hours, but, as Russians say, “an aftertaste remains”. Continue reading