Talk:Marshrutka

message: What kind of minibuses are these monstrosities (I assume the ones in the Kiev and St. Petersburg pictures are the same model)?  I've never seen one quite like these before.  Just curious.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 00:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: What about suicidal caucasian "Gazellist" without driving license and "40 minutes of horror and you're at home"? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.186.150.252 (talk) 14:54, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: City legends

message: I took away the verifiable notice because this article is not encyclopedic. It relates the experiences of travellers in former Soviet Bloc countries and provides other travellers with an understanding of a public transport system that is not found in English-speaking countries.
Clarified the GAZelle photo since it is only typical in Russia. I have firsthand experience seeing and travelling on marshrutki in Moscow, Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg and Satka (CHEL), as well as in Ukraine (Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Simferopol, Feodosia).
Wavetossed (talk) 21:40, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just because the article in its current form is based on "experiences of travellers" is not an excuse not to request references.  I restored the "unreferenced" note.  As for the image caption, I had to remove "Russian" from it because that particular image was taken in Ukraine (I should know, I am the photographer).  If you look closer, you'll see that the sign is in Ukrainian and that the license plate is Ukrainian as well.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:39, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few changes 

message: I think this article needs to be sorted out. There is some structure of the article shown in contents, but there is poor structure within the text, it is just hard to read.
It would be great if somebody who lives in CIS countries (and knows english well) would edit this article to fix its structure and make it more realistic, because as of 2009-06-13 it indeed looks like a single traveller's experience.
I live in Poltava, Ukraine and I can tell a bit about this topic (and I may edit a part of article later). It is necessary to add more 'Bogdan's, because since early 2000's their amount has greatly increased, they are popular in all ukrainian cities, e.g. in Poltava they make ca. 1/2 of all so-called (*1) marshrutkas. 
Also maybe it would be good to place info about a ticket price in marshrutkas (the differ from 1.25 to >2.50 UAH as I know - as of June 2009).
1: In fact, native people in Poltava doesn't refer 'Bogdan's and 'Tata Etalon's to marshrutkas, either they are reffered to busses along with bigger ones (and the same price of 1.00 UAH). Only smaller ones (Gazelle, BAZ, Rutah, Mercedes Sprinter, and similar) are called marshrutkas (with price of 1.25 UAH, and do not have a conductor). That's all the difference about it.
193.84.90.3 (talk) 17:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that there is a problem related to determining the type and shape of vehicle that qualifies as marshrutka. Though my experience is limited, I have not heard anyone refer to Bogdans, Etalons, PAZs and the photographed Shaolin as marshrutka. However, the article was already written when I first came across it, so I didn't raise an alarm. Information about price as a number is, I believe, not something worth mentioning as it is subject to difference from region to region and change from time to time. I have been to Poltava and have many fond memories. Cheers.--Paffka (talk) 18:19, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing the article

message: It reads like some discussion which is inappropriate. 93.72.146.196 (talk) 17:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The lead 

message: I first heard the word in Ukraina, and I am really surprised it is so widely used. Which leads to the question why in Poland they simply talk about minibuses (or was that for me as a foreigner)? Still Polish is a Slavic language as well. In Albania these buses are called "furgon" (which is probably no original Albanian word I guess). Rbakels (talk) 09:52, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other names 

message: We need even MOAR irrelevant details in pictures' captions here( Ukrained2012 (talk) 03:45, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  MOAR 

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