Favorite Pictures in Russia

[eekee 182]

I love seeing "crowd shots" from Russia. Fashion there covers an amazing spectrum!

Does anyone know the official age when women start wearing the headscarves? It seems like they're all Paris fashions, high heels, make-up, hair done, great shape.... then boom! Baba Yaga.

Either way though, they sure give the Rap guys a run for their money. "50 cent aint got nothin on Baba's do' rag over there!"

"Word up, G. Word up."

I think after their husband dies.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

All right you guys... Time for some real Russian photos instead of the "tourist" stuff!...

Me with some of my best students at the Kazan' school I taught at.

My friend Rob in Yoshkar-Ola after a night out at the disco. Amateur!

I've got more if anyone's interested!

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Actually, I prefer the Russian cheap stuff. It, well, cleans better!

More photos soon...

All right you guys... Time for some real Russian photos instead of the "tourist" stuff!...

I've got more if anyone's interested!

LOL! Interested? Of course!

I just have to say...in the second picture, the first thing I thought of was "ohhhh, REAL toilet paper! Lucky #######! Oh, there's a guy on the floor too."

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

One tourist and one personal this time...

River Station in Kazan'

Alla & I way back in 2004 at Raifa Monastery (in between Kazan' and Yoshkar-Ola.)

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

You just need to toughen up the area! Remember our ladies have used it for years!

Thanks about the pics. Maybe I'll post more tomorrow...

Actually, I prefer the Russian cheap stuff. It, well, cleans better!

Uh-huh, if you don't mind losing a layer of skin at the same time. And while I don't generally like losing a layer of skin anywhere, that's one of the areas I *least* like losing it.

One tourist and one personal this time...

Nice pics!

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

You just need to toughen up the area! Remember our ladies have used it for years!

Hey if that's how our ladies got so tough, they can have it. My uncalloused tush will remain so!

[Igor&Elina 0]

Hey guys, those are some real nice and fun photos in the last few posts.

Here's a couple more non touristy shots from me:

New Year 2008 dinner. Elina and I:

Уха (fish soup) is in the works. Mmmmm... tasty!

[JJWashington 0]

great photos

[NavarreMan 10]

I had the extraordinary luck to fall in love with a person whose best friend is a professional photographer. The friend, Aza, followed us around for a few days and took hundreds of photos and worked some of them in Photoshop. I have them all over my house. It looks like a shrine to my Tanya.

Here are some of her photos and some that were taken by her husband, Sergey. I also have several that were taken of the 2 of us in our photos in our profile. Goes without saying that the photos of us together are my favorites.

Me and Aza in Baskin Robbins in Taganrog.

Me on Sergey's Jawa! Sergey fancies himself a Russian biker. If I win the lotto I promised to send him a Harley!

Then there was this silly punching game down on Pushkinskaya Quay. Just seemed like a photo op!

Asa & Sergey's beautiful daughter, Masha. The subject of many of Aza's photos.

Port of Taganrog with the Yacht Club in the foreground.

The big monster is going to bite off the head of the young princess!

[kud 0]

Kids Birthday party

Edited January 17, 2008 by kud

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

I concur! Time to share another...

Theatre «Уникс» in Kazan' by the State university near Ul. Baumana, where my Alla performed at. (Note: The "Work In The U.S." poster on the building)

Nice pics everyone, I'm really glad this thread was resurrected.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Oh, I know! I love the way they market and advertise. There is a whole agency in Kazan' that hires pretty girls for this. Some were recruited from Alla's theatre. They walk around the street in matching attire yelling through bull horns handing out literature. I liked the "Beeline" girls too.

I concur! Time to share another...

Those Megafon ads were plastered everywhere in Y-O. On the weekends a bunch of women dressed in green jumpers stood at intersections and in the middle of the street when traffic was stopped handing out Megafon fliers to all the pedestrians. The fliers had little pedestrian symbols and stoplights on them, so at first I thought they were crossing guards and that it was some kind of public safety campaign. Then when I actually read (and by that I mean I looked at the pictures in) the flier I figured out they were just adverts. Damn, wish I'd taken pics of that, it was kind of surreal to see all those women in bright green weaving in and out of the pedestrian traffic. I do still have my flier though, maybe I'll scan and post it.

[slim 1,533]

Actually, I prefer the Russian cheap stuff. It, well, cleans better!

Uh-huh, if you don't mind losing a layer of skin at the same time. And while I don't generally like losing a layer of skin anywhere, that's one of the areas I *least* like losing it.

Back in my military days that "official issue TP" was refered to as the "John Wayne" TP. Rough, tough, and didn't take any $#!t off of anyone.

I agree though, it is an "acquired taste" as I've grown quite used to the cheap stuff as well. Throw a little angel soft squeezable quilted stuff back there and I get a memo later asking "what was that, a pampering?"

Although I've got to say the absolute worst TP in the world is the little squares that come in the MREs. (Meals ready to eat. GI Joe food.) They come with these little 4" X 4" pieces of napkins that are passed off as toilet tissue. From what I've been told (I was in the Air Force, remember. We never actually had to use the restroom out there in the woods.) it takes at least a squad-sized collection of them to "get the job done."

Edited: Oh, and by the way, the pictures are great too. Keep 'em coming!

Edited January 17, 2008 by slim

[Jason-Sasha 1]

Actually, I prefer the Russian cheap stuff. It, well, cleans better!

Uh-huh, if you don't mind losing a layer of skin at the same time. And while I don't generally like losing a layer of skin anywhere, that's one of the areas I *least* like losing it.

Back in my military days that "official issue TP" was refered to as the "John Wayne" TP. Rough, tough, and didn't take any $#!t off of anyone.

I agree though, it is an "acquired taste" as I've grown quite used to the cheap stuff as well. Throw a little angel soft squeezable quilted stuff back there and I get a memo later asking "what was that, a pampering?"

Although I've got to say the absolute worst TP in the world is the little squares that come in the MREs. (Meals ready to eat. GI Joe food.) They come with these little 4" X 4" pieces of napkins that are passed off as toilet tissue. From what I've been told (I was in the Air Force, remember. We never actually had to use the restroom out there in the woods.) it takes at least a squad-sized collection of them to "get the job done."

Edited: Oh, and by the way, the pictures are great too. Keep 'em coming!

the $hit paper in MREs is horrible. But trust me, you quickly become an artist. Most troops will tell you that its easier to use a few squares at a time, strategically patterned in your hand, so that you finish the job in one crescent-turned swipe. Perhaps that's too much info Haha. Damn MREs. Hope I never see one of those again!

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

ROTFLMAO!

Actually, I prefer the Russian cheap stuff. It, well, cleans better!

Uh-huh, if you don't mind losing a layer of skin at the same time. And while I don't generally like losing a layer of skin anywhere, that's one of the areas I *least* like losing it.

Back in my military days that "official issue TP" was refered to as the "John Wayne" TP. Rough, tough, and didn't take any $#!t off of anyone.

I agree though, it is an "acquired taste" as I've grown quite used to the cheap stuff as well. Throw a little angel soft squeezable quilted stuff back there and I get a memo later asking "what was that, a pampering?"

Although I've got to say the absolute worst TP in the world is the little squares that come in the MREs. (Meals ready to eat. GI Joe food.) They come with these little 4" X 4" pieces of napkins that are passed off as toilet tissue. From what I've been told (I was in the Air Force, remember. We never actually had to use the restroom out there in the woods.) it takes at least a squad-sized collection of them to "get the job done."

Edited: Oh, and by the way, the pictures are great too. Keep 'em coming!

the $hit paper in MREs is horrible. But trust me, you quickly become an artist. Most troops will tell you that its easier to use a few squares at a time, strategically patterned in your hand, so that you finish the job in one crescent-turned swipe. Perhaps that's too much info Haha. Damn MREs. Hope I never see one of those again!