Cogeneration Power Stations in Moscow
Everyone knows that cogeneration (generating electricity at a power plant and using the waste heat for heating) is much more efficient than generating electricity alone (at least in the winter, when you can use the excess heat!). But then you have to have power plants in your cities. Well, Moscow shows what this is like... the city is full of power plants and is heated by central heating from these power plants (which burn natural gas).
Yaroslavl
Churches
Painting "Dreams" by Polyaev (1899) showing Jesus with a hat and shoes
A Russian Hero
sounds like a George Washington type - real and mythical
On the Oka and Volga...
This bridge on the Oka river is a floating bridge... but about 100 yards of it can also turn. They just unhook it, hook up a motorboat and drag it open, then after you've gone through they drag it closed.
Sunset on the Volga...
Shower on the Deck
Goodbye Moscow -- trip to the airport to leave
