In spite of what I can write here about negative aspects of living in Russia, I love its climat and nature…
Author: tanya
Offroad in Russia | Siberian Auto Moto Festival
Among all the nations you can find absolutely different people with various interests: cinema, music, clubs, travelling… Here, in Russia, I know many people who like offroading (possibly it’s caused by the roads quality :) ). And we also like offroad in some degree – the fear to be left without a car brings us back to senses when needed :) By the way, it’s our Pajero II – almost alive!
Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport
Despite the fact that the airport name contains the word “international”, it is really small in comparison with other airports I’ve visited. On this pic you may see the airport terminal A intended for domestic flights.
Russian educational system in brief
While writing my graduation thesis, I decided to tell about Russian education system. I suppose it will be better to divide these theme into several posts, because there are too much information.
Let’s start with the general information about the major institutions of the system.
Current weather
It’s really cold today. At night it was -32°C (-25.6°F), now (at 2 pm) it’s -26.4°C (-15.52°F).
Ausgerechnet Sibirien
Last night we watched this movie. Well, to be honest, we weren’t interested in the plot from the very beginning, but curiosity — how foreigners imagine Russia — served its purpose :)
Our attempts at shooting night sky
Vova and I are exposed to mainstream culture, that’s why last autumn we’d looked at a great number of the night sky photos and tried it ourselves. Unfortunately, our experience didn’t turn out to be very successful for a variety of reasons.
hello, world
You can’t even imagine how many photos accumulated on my laptop during these months. Now I have more free time that’s why I’ll try to share them.
This one to begin with.
Siberia, where is it?
Strangely enough, but there exist a big difference between Siberia as a geographical region and as a Russian federal district: the former is bigger as contains more areas. That’s why not every Russian can say where Siberia is located and where its boundaries are. Continue reading
Astronomical observations
Today we were going to a planetarium to take part in astronomical observations. But unfortunately weather is not so good for admiring stars :( Too cloudy.