Moscow...

[lecter]

Finally decided to get off me ass and post again...here are some pics from my Moscow trip. In all honesty, that place is like Opposite-Land...if there's any conceivable way of doing something differently, they've thought of it. Here are the highlights:

#1: The building on the right is the former KGB (current FSB) headquarters in infamous Lubyanka Street...the one on the left is Detskyy Mir, a children's mall I guess they decided to help the parents - I can see it now: "Mommmmyy, I want the new SPECNAZ action figure!!" "Shut up, or I'll send you next door instead"

#2: A great boat trip down the Moscow river leads past the amusement park on the left - the space shuttle looking thingy in it is...an actual Soviet space shuttle, the Buran. They managed to fly it unmanned past orbit, and back safely...the factory that assembled it currently makes diapers

#3: Who sez Soviet architecture is boring? You're looking at the Faculty of Science & Technology, Moscow University.

#4: That is one ski-jump slope I wouldn't ever want to set a new record in

#5: Some local color

[lecter]

#1: Moscow University, main building...

#2: Though it looks like the entrance to a cell block, you are in fact looking at the front door of an apartment building...a lot of the buildings even have locked doors near the elevator on each floor, which only the 3-4 apartment-owners on that floor have the key to. Also, the idea of a secure, expensive block of flats involves a spikestrip, armored gates, thick walls and AK-47-equipped security guards

[Dr Mordrid]

Post 1, picture 3 looks like a generic business structure with the Hellraiser puzzle box glued on top

Dr. Mordrid

[Nowhere]

Blah, neighbourhood One of the faculties at my uni is IN da former Party/"security service" building Some funny rumors about insides of it...

[Podfrog]

hey, is moscow university near the bridge-like thing where all those bikers meet?

my uncle has a mafioso type living in his building. talk about armed guards. the door to our apartment is also reinforced. keeps the bullets out i guess.

[lecter]

If you mean the lookout-point style thing that gives a great view of Moscow, yes, it is near that...as for bikers, I don't know, I'm a punk

[Podfrog]

thanks for the confirmation, that is exactly what i meant, last time i was in moscow there was a rather large congregation of bikers at the lookout. meh, just sticks out in my mind.