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Old Posted Nov 24, 2007, 5:05 PM
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Moscow 2006 (part 2)

All photos taken: February 2006.

Leftovers including 'alternative takes'.

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5. Metro.


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7. Yuri Gagarin monument, first human in space.


8. Looking backwards from photo #7, a small flower kiosk.


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10. Stairs to an innner court of city apartments, with garage and storage boxes.


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15. A bit further as photo #14.


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18. A bit further as photo #17.


19. Tverskaya Ulitsa.


20. Metro.


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27. Seven Sister skyscraper Moscow State University.


28. Yasenevo district.


29. Yasenevo district.


30. Yasenevo district.
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Nice pictures. And certainly looks cold.
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Great photos once again. I stopped and studied the subway shots for a good long while! Very interesting.
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great pictures - more please!!
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Even better than the first thread! Moscow, for some reason, scares the hell out of me!
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Your photos are excellent. I love the warm tone. That Gagarin monument is really cool.
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Love the snow. Hooray for winter!

Thanks for posting these great images.
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Moscow looks like a vast city (which it certainly is).
Where are the narrow, medieval streets typical of old, european capitals ?
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Moscow looks like a vast city (which it certainly is).
Where are the narrow, medieval streets typical of old, european capitals ?
There are some not very wide old streets left but they are not as narrow as in medieval Western Europe towns where you sometimes can barely fit one car between the walls. At least three reasons.

1) Even in oldest times they have never been particularly narrow. Perhaps it was due to the fact most of the city was wooden (narrow streets more fire prone), perhaps Russians never felt limited by space.

2) Prior to 1812 fire a lot of Moscow was wooden. After the fire, stone buildings went up and streets have been opened up.

3.) Many major streets were much narrower before reconstructions of 1930s and 1950s. Typically, one side of a street would be knocked down completely, one or more rows of houses were removed, and that side of the street was rebuilt with what is known today as "stalinist" architechture. As a result you will sometimes find streets with one side built in XIX century (lower) and the other in 1930s-50s (taller).

Look at Garden ring (Sadovoe kolco) or Tverskaja street as examples.


one of typical Moscow streets, not sure it is Tverskaja, but Tverskaja was about this wide before reconstruction:



check pics of Tverskaja reconstruction here
http://moskva.kotoroy.net/photos/4.html

Tverskaja after reconstruction - 10 lanes (4 lanes before)



from http://valkorn.livejournal.com/230644.html

Stalin's plans of Moscow reconstruction, only partially realised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQHVS_IWKRQ

significant part of the center city has been knocked down (2/3 of churches gone), curved streets straitened out, large squares created in place of small ones, etc.
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I really adore those impressive monuments like the Gagarin one.
The Moscow subway stations are so nice (must be very expensive to keep it all in this good shape, I guess)
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(must be very expensive to keep it all in this good shape, I guess)
In comparison with with total expenditures not too much…
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Stalin's plans of Moscow reconstruction, only partially realised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQHVS_IWKRQ
Excellent document ! It's like watching Metropolis.

Thanks for all the info, anm.
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I really adore those impressive monuments like the Gagarin one.
The Moscow subway stations are so nice (must be very expensive to keep it all in this good shape, I guess)
I guess KVentz could correct me if I am wrong, but I beleive Moscow subway covers its operating expenses by its revenue (give or take a couple of elephants). This includes maintenance of the stations. Which is not subsidized by city government.

So, I do not see how one can argue that maintaining these stations is "expensive". It is expensive to have subways which constatnly require government subsidies to run, like... you name them.
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thanks for the tour, I would like to visit Moscow 1 day !!!
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Again, I love your street scenes. Great attention to detail.
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Those subway stations are just magnificent.
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^That's amazing.
It's not only nice, but clean !
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Holy Cow.

Amazing.
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