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 Description: Рассказываю про свои поездки в июле: Калининград, Озёрск, Москва, Тверь, Торжок, Санкт-Петербург, Новосибирск, Алтай.

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0:00 Старт
1:52 Озёрск
5:24 Москва 
7:26 Петербург
10:12 Тверь
14:33 Торжок
16:08 Москва
17:50 Новосибирск
20:08 Алтай
21:08 Финиш
Title: ИЮЛЬ: Тверь, Торжок, Питер, Алтай - Intermediate Russian podcast (sub)
Caption: Friends, hello everyone!
Welcome to the new release of the Russian Progress project.
This is a channel and podcast for Russian language learners.
I make videos with subtitles, podcasts with transcriptions so you can listen
and have support in the form of text that you can translate and improve your understanding.
Well, you can also speak: on the website russianprogress.com you have
the opportunity to sign up for lessons with me and speak Russian.
I have several students now.
Recently a new student from Portugal appeared.
And it’s always very interesting for both me and the students, I hope, to talk about different topics.
Well, at the same time I correct all your mistakes.
So links to transcriptions and lessons will be in the description.
And we start with today's episode, which, by the way, I am recording from Novosibirsk.
Here I found such a wooden house in the old quiet center.
Wooden architecture that I want to show you.
I want to not only speak Russian, create content for you, but also show Russia and different places.
And in this issue there will be a lot of shots from different cities, because I will talk about July.
And I've had a lot of trips this month.
And I will also show all this in the video version of the podcast, if you listen to the audio.
By the way, I don’t know how long it will take me to upload this, because YouTube has started to slow down in Russia.
And yesterday, for example, I watched YouTube with a VPN.
Which is not cool, because YouTube for me personally was a huge source of knowledge,
yes, because I learned all my languages ​​on YouTube.
Well, in podcasts. And I create the same content myself.
Therefore, this is a small problem, but that’s not what we’re talking about today.
So, July started for me in such a way that I had not gone anywhere yet, but I already wanted some impressions.
Those who listened or watched the episode about the first month of summer, about June, I said there
that the month went so-so: that is, I sat at home or worked and didn’t see anything new.
So, in July I wanted to fix this and just started driving around different unfamiliar
areas in Kaliningrad, where I was then.
Well, I discovered several new places for myself: a historical German tower,
one of the new forts, which I just saw by chance, stumbled upon it
while riding a bicycle, several new establishments, coffee shops and that’s it.
Here.
In fact, Kaliningrad has almost exhausted itself in terms of impressions for me.
That is, I no longer know where to go to discover something new.
Therefore, there are thoughts of going to live somewhere further.
Despite the fact that Kaliningrad is one of the best cities in Russia.
I did an issue about this.
I want to see something new.
I’m constantly getting some impressions, so maybe I’ll go somewhere further.
In Kaliningrad, yes, I have already been everywhere in the city itself,
and traveled around the region, that is, I visited all the big cities.
Well, I decided to go to Ozyorsk.
Ozyorsk attracted my attention because there are very cheap apartments there.
Well, the town, in principle, is so green and pretty in the video I saw.
And so I decided to go there and have a look.
This is the east of the Kaliningrad region, it is located right close to Poland, eight kilometers there.
And I went there and understood why apartments there are so cheap.
Because there were only two places to eat.
That is, not just good food, but food: some kind of canteen, something else.
There were no coffee shops, there was nothing at all.
There were no people, that is, there were very few people there, only 4,000 (four thousand) population.
And a very strange restoration of historical buildings, in which, as far as I understand,
the facade is first covered with foam plastic, that is, it is insulated and then covered with
this ribbed plaster, which looks terribly, cheaply.
And the house generally loses volume and shape.
Overall, it's terrible.
I have not yet made an issue about the disadvantages of Kaliningrad, but I will also mention this - the facades.
That is, they are doing something to the facades in Kaliningrad, so that a historical house becomes a new build.
That is, it’s as if it was built yesterday.
And the situation is completely different in other cities I’ve been to.
That is, I was in Moscow, in St. Petersburg, well, there, of course, the level is very high.
And even I was in Tver - everything is good there too in this regard.
In Novosibirsk.
That is, this is precisely the peculiarity of the Kaliningrad region and so
cities such as Ozyorsk in particular.
Here.
But nevertheless, the town is not bad for once, probably, yes.
That is, you can come there and relax.
It's quiet and peaceful there.
You can ride a sap.
They are also doing landscaping there - well done in this regard.
That is, they renovated the park, renovated the embankment.
And everything is great.
I met a dog there.
Some dog was chasing me there.
I fed her and bought her sausages.
Well, in general, such a trip.
Well, as if I’m already squeezing out I don’t know what, I’m trying to get at least some impressions there,
because I’ve already just researched everything up and down.
Well, and, accordingly, after that we were planning a [trip] with my friend Victor,
with whom we had a graduation, he is from France and he had already come to Kaliningrad.
I also told him then: “You definitely need to see Moscow and St. Petersburg.”
And he said, “Okay. Let me come in the summer.”
Well, he got ready to come, he got a visa, everything seemed great.
I took tickets and got ready to go too.
And already on the day of departure to Moscow, well, first he had to arrive in Kaliningrad.
Here at the border he had problems with his visa: he could not open it.
And the problem was very stupid.
It was that he was using some random browser,
but he had to log in from a regular Chrome browser, and then a PDF file with a visa would open.
In general, it was a stupid situation, but nevertheless he solved it all for two days.
Well, I tried to call and find out something,
but we only found out about this problem some time later, and the visa was only for a week.
This e-visa, it won’t last long.
And when I found out all this, I had to fly to Moscow.
I thought, damn, why should I fly to Moscow,
because I’ve been there 1,000 (thousand) times - I want to go to my native St. Petersburg.
Because I lived there for five years after all.
This city has become my home.
This is my second home.
And I really wanted to go to St. Petersburg.
At that moment, by the way, I realized that I liked St. Petersburg more than Moscow.
Because Moscow is a place for some business,
to make a transfer, to show some foreign guest the city, yes.
But if I had to choose where to go, I would go to St. Petersburg.
And, in fact, that’s what I did - I flew to Moscow, walked there for a day,
admired the quality of the environment, the quality of the institutions, the quality of everything in Moscow in general.
And prices too. Prices are also higher.
In general, I spent half a day there and by night train or not, I went to St. Petersburg by night bus.
I got there and checked into my hostel.
Well, before that I was walking around St. Petersburg, and it was beautiful sunny weather.
I enjoyed this city, I enjoyed the clean, smooth facades.
Not the same as in Ozyorsk, but already good.
He took coffee, drank it, sat there.
It’s just that St. Petersburg in the summer is the best thing that can happen to a person,
which is probably why I highly recommend it to everyone.
Our summer is not over yet.
We still have August.
It will still be September.
Well, in September it will already be cool, but it’s normal too.
It’s great in St. Petersburg in the fall, when there are these golden leaves.
A trip to Peterhof, to Pushkin is just the thing.
In general, St. Petersburg is a city for hedonists, right?
This is a city for highs, this is a city for joy.
Why? Because it's just designed that way.
It is more compact, you can walk on it (not like in Moscow).
Moscow means constant movement on some kind of transport, metro, something else.
Well, I usually took the subway.
And all these movements, they are exhausting.
You're wasting a lot of time.
You are constantly surrounded by some kind of noise in the subway itself.
And in St. Petersburg you settled in the center - it’s not as expensive as in Moscow.
You walk on foot, you have canals, you have a lot of establishments with terraces and tables.
I took it, sat down at the bus stop, drank
some coffee, and moved on.
You look at the beautiful architecture.
Well, that is, St. Petersburg is just a cool city.
But I want to note that in the summer.
Because the rest of the time, no, I don’t recommend being there at all.
This is dangerous for mental health.
But in the summer, everyone definitely needs to go there.
I noticed an improvement in the quality of the restoration, again.
I noticed that they began to add some historical details
that were not there during the period of poverty, when they simply
could not afford to restore everything as it was in the Russian Empire, yes.
All details are on the facade.
Those houses that were with me for a long time, when I lived there, were being restored, they are already ready.
That is, you look and just enjoy the city.
By the way, I made a post about what I noticed in which St. Petersburg has become more beautiful, better.
By the way, I made a post about what I noticed in which St. Petersburg has become more beautiful, better.
Even the fences began to be replaced with more aesthetically pleasing historical ones.
Kind of like the ones that were there before.
But that's not the point.
In general, you understand, right? We need to go to St. Petersburg.
Well, then before the main event,
because of which I got out of my Kaliningrad altogether, it was my sister’s wedding,
which was supposed to take place on the 15th (fifteenth), and I still had a few days.
And I decided to use them to finally go to Tver.
I wanted to get there for many years, but somehow I just never got around to it.
Tver is a city that is located between Moscow and St. Petersburg, but closer to Moscow.
And I always passed it when I traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg and back,
and this is a whole separate area that I have not painted over.
I'm painting over areas now, I want to paint over everything.
And finally I got to Tver.
A wonderful town.
Probably the most developed of the small towns around Moscow that I have seen.
I was also in Vladimir, and in other areas.
And I don’t know whether they are now basically doing landscaping everywhere,
or whether this is a separate case in Tver.
I just don’t know how it is in Vladimir now - when I was there, it was quite provincial.
But here is Tver - the Moscow style is already visible, that is, ideal asphalt,
ideal sidewalks are not made everywhere, of course, but they exist.
When I left the station towards the center, by the way, it’s a shame that they
removed the tram (there used to be tram tracks there, they don’t use them and they removed them altogether).
And before it was possible to get from the station directly to the center, but now not.
Now there is a huge ten-lane road - this is also Moscow style.
People in Moscow love huge avenues.
Tver wanted to become little Moscow.
Here.
But it would be better if they left the tram, of course,
as in Kaliningrad, for example, there are a lot of tram lines.
They also use old trams.
And it's atmospheric.
Well, that's not the point.
In general, I took a scooter, rode the scooter to the pedestrian street and saw
that it was still not very good, and then I realized literally after 50 (fifty) meters
that it was already being reconstructed: they were already replacing the tiles with new ones, restoring the facades, improving All.
And I just can’t get enough of the fact
that in almost every city I visit, I see improvements.
I see that they are doing it especially actively now.
I don't know what this is connected with.
Maybe the money remains in Russia due to sanctions.
And people travel abroad less and spend less here, and,
accordingly, the standard of living in Russia is now growing very much.
Here.
I stopped there, had a snack, went to my hostel, checked in and walked around
the beautiful Tver, low-rise.
A very cozy and comfortable town.
By the way, Tver at one time was an old city;
it was founded back in the 12th (twelfth) century, like Moscow.
At one time, Tver competed with Moscow and was even more developed.
And Tver could have become the capital of Russia in general,
but Moscow won this fight, this competition.
Moscow is simply an incredible giant.
And Tver is just a small town, but very cozy, very pleasant.
There I especially want to highlight the “Rails” space.
This is a space where you can come, grab a coffee, there are sofas,
take any book (they have a huge number of great books on design,
architecture and other topics) and just sit down and read.
Such a young, stylish library for progressive and young guys.
Here.
This is a real reason to just move to Tver for a year,
read this entire library and leave as an already educated person to live somewhere else.
Here.
Well, plus, by the way, Tver is a very promising option,
because Tver is located two hours away from Moscow, and at the same time it is a fairly developed city.
And there are inexpensive apartments there.
That is, you can take an apartment in Tver, live there or stay and go to Moscow whenever you want.
Here.
I have such a thing.
Now I keep in mind that it is possible to do this.
And then I simply could not help but stop by the legendary city of Torzhok,
which the lazy one just didn’t talk about.
This is just a small provincial town, which is very picturesque, very Russian.
And not only Russian, he has some kind of Italian influence or something.
That is, these rich churches with columns look very impressive.
Now, of course, everything there is not super landscaped, but they are doing the same thing:
they are restoring churches, and the restoration is simply incredible, because they
not only make clean and smooth facades and restore details on the facades,
but also make wooden windows, as here, for example. , you see wooden windows.
This is what they do in Tver: if it is a historical house, they do not install plastic double-glazed windows.
This is a really big problem in Russia.
And in Kaliningrad as well.
Even government buildings have double glazed windows everywhere.
It simply ruins the architecture of the building.
And when it's not so cool.
That is, when you have such wonderful windows, it warms the soul.
Do you agree?
Here.
And in Tver this practice is widespread.
They do it in Torzhok too, but locally, in a targeted manner.
Here.
Well, yes, it’s such a small pleasant town to visit for a few hours.
Partially, of course, it is still abandoned: that is, there are huge signs and no landscaping.
But I think they will soon take care of that too.
If you need an ideal small Russian city, then this is Suzdal.
Everything is already perfect there.
Well, then I returned to Moscow.
My sister's wedding took place in Moscow.
For which I warmly congratulate her.
And Roma, her husband.
If you are watching this episode.
And yes, it was great.
We took a walk.
Everything is so calm and quite, without any of the craziness
that usually happens at weddings.
The main part was still in Novosibirsk.
But everything is great.
Well, there were a few more days to walk around Moscow.
And now, when I returned to Moscow, I realized, in contrast with St. Petersburg,
even with Tver, that Moscow is a difficult city for living and moving in general.
I mean, yes, if you live in the center, it’s probably great.
But for this you need at least 1,500 (one and a half thousand) dollars or 1,000 (thousand), probably enough.
That is, 100,000 (one hundred thousand) rubles, 150,000 (one hundred fifty thousand) you need
to rent an apartment, plus for food, for this, for that, in general,
you need quite a lot of money to live comfortably, coolly in Moscow .
If not, then most likely you will live on the outskirts.
It will take you 40 (forty), 50 (fifty), an hour to get to the center,
maybe by metro or other transport.
And all of this, as I said, is exhausting.
And plus you spend more money there.
Well, in general, Moscow is still for the rich.
If you are rich, if you have a lot of money - Moscow, you will get the most from it.
But if you are an ordinary peasant, a proletarian, then it’s a little hard there, of course.
Well, that is, for the same money in Kaliningrad
or in some other city you will get much more benefits.
Here.
Well, then I flew to Novosibirsk, to my hometown.
I’ve been wanting to go for a long time, because the last time I was here was in November.
In November it was already cold and gray.
True, when the snow fell, it was already normal.
And I dreamed of being in Novosibirsk in the summer,
because in the summer it’s beautiful here, as you can see, I’ll show you some more footage.
What makes me very happy, besides the fact that this is my hometown.
Previously, I always loved Novosibirsk mainly because
I have family, friends, and relatives here.
There are a lot of memories here.
I lived here for 24 (twenty-four) years.
I studied here at school, at university, in general, most of my life was spent here.
Well, it’s just nice to take a walk and remember the past.
And now I come to Novosibirsk, having seen other cities, having lived in Nizhny Novgorod,
Kaliningrad, having seen some other cities, and now I understand that this is just a cool city,
regardless of whether I was born here, lived here or not .
If you compare it with other cities, it is very cool.
First of all, it's big.
There is a feeling of scale here.
It feels like people live here,
because the population here is already probably 1.7 million people.
This is the third city in Russia by population.
Well, in general you can see the scale, wide roads.
I’m not a fan of super-wide roads at all, but here there is this feeling of some kind of
living big city, which I didn’t have in Kaliningrad.
A lot has been done here lately to improve the environment:
they are changing, again, the road surface, replacing sidewalks, restoring buildings,
building new residential complexes (a huge number and, by the way, they are building quite elite residential complexes).
I don’t understand where so many people come from who have the opportunity
to buy apartments for 20 (twenty) million there, or how much they cost.
In general, it is clear that Novosibirsk is becoming richer, Novosibirsk is becoming more comfortable.
In general, it is clear that Novosibirsk is becoming richer, Novosibirsk is becoming more comfortable.
Of course, the climate here is unlikely to change, but, again, it’s beautiful here in the summer.
It is getting better and better, and in principle it has never been so good here.
This can probably be said about Russia in general.
Well, after the second wedding, yes, that is, after the continuation, more precisely,
the wedding in Novosibirsk, we already went to Altai.
Well, like in the last issue, I also wrote about the summer, saying:
I, of course, love Altai, spending time with my family there and so on.
But I don’t like to just come to the same places a hundred times.
Here. But nevertheless, I saw a lot of new things.
I saw the huge Teletskoye Lake.
It's great there.
It's very beautiful.
And we also visited Manzherok.
This is a settlement where,
as far as I understand, they have organized a ski base, a ski resort,
but you can also come there in the summer - there is a cable car, a funicular, you can go up.
And in principle, the center that they built,
in terms of architecture and, in principle, the environment around it is very cool.
Again, top quality.
And I just couldn’t be happier that I see all this in Russia.
Well, finally I returned back to Novosibirsk from Altai.
We were only there for a few days.
And now I’m enjoying the Novosibirsk summer.
I take a walk and go to my new favorite coffee shop called Pitchii.
I also like there that they have cool books on design.
I come, grab some coffee, leaf through a book, look at the interiors, get inspired and work.
I'm doing a lot on the site now.
You can come take a look and write a comment, what do you think?
I updated the interface a little and now I’m adding functionality that, by subscribing
to Patreon at the ten dollar level, you can read all the transcriptions on the site.
You will have audio at the bottom.
That is, it will not disappear when you scroll.
And you will have the opportunity to translate everything into English.
Well, I’ll also add functionality.
In general, I make sure that it is convenient to use the materials.
And many thanks to everyone who supports the project!
I hope there will be more of you.
I will try to make more content.
There hasn't been much of it lately because I've been mostly working on the website and teaching lessons.
Shy.
I feel embarrassed when people pass by.
Yes, have a nice summer everyone!
Come to Russia, it’s wonderful here.
All. Bye everyone!
This is such beauty.
Birches, please, Russian birches.
Russian houses are, of course, a little chaotic in architecture, but still.