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I was watching Boris cooking and start to wonder: how much of the food you Russians eat are 'traditional' food from your area? Or do you eat much pasta and so on?
Ha-ha, I read on FB a lot of jokes from Russians, that are saying "since we starve so much because of the sanctions, and we can't get Spanish jamon any longer or French cheese, we headed to such and such river yesterday, and got back to our boring Russian food; such and such smoked fish, shashlyk, chicken-tabaka ( and then they post the pictures, and I am like; "I WANT THAT FISH!!!!" )
But... I hope you survived all that hanging fish in your "platzcart," lol)))) ( And by the way how was food in wagon - restaurant on that train? )
What was good and bad about Tuymen? Yes, it's one of those "oil cities," but I was talking to someone from Surgut for quite some time; it's yet another "oil city," but it's nowhere as nice as Tuymen for some reason.
P.S. Note to myself; the music in the first video is a remake of an older song, and the original was actually better.
So here it is, enjoy it while you are moving alone in Siberia))))
Tyumen was just too....familiar, I guess? It actually just reminded me far too much of where I am from. Like Sudbury, it's kind of a big city, it looks very new-world, it's in the middle of nowhere, and while it's probably a good place to live in and be a local, it just wasn't very captivating from a foreigner's perspective. It just turned 455 years old, though.
Listvyanka is the first town you hit as you drive down the road following the Angara from Irkutsk. It's immediately East of the mouth of the river entering Baikal. The centre of it is touristy in a typical beachy way. Loads of Russians swimming, walking around, cracking open beers, grilling meat and fish, and eating ice cream. It's not for me, but it was good for an introduction to the lake.
The highlight was the The Great Baikal Trail leading out of Listvyanka. It's serene and empty of any humans or development. Within an hour you feel like you are in the middle of the wilderness, and you kind of are.
Well, in view of the video, I have no idea what it means. How do you have an "urban-type village"? It makes no sense.
It does, it does, if you are in Russia)))
From what I read here, the "Urban type settlement" is identified as such during Soviet times. The amount of inhabitants is between the amount in the population of a city and a village. ( Here I have to make a note that in Russian language "village" can be translated by two different words; "село" and "деревня." And since being a damn Moscovite as I was, I never knew the difference between those two. I read about it for the first time; the original difference that goes back to Tzarist Russia of course, was that "деревня" unlike "cело" didn't have its own church!
So the main feature of the "urban type settlement" vs traditional Russian village is that the population there (usually more than 3,000 people) is NOT involved into traditional agrarian activities, but for example they are employed in the process industry. In modern Russian "деревня" and "село" are already used interchangeably, with "село" being used more often the more you move to the Western part of the country and "деревня" - the more you move to the Eastern part.
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I'm sure it dates back that far, but the big apartment/hotel-type buildings are new.
Tyumen was just too....familiar, I guess? It actually just reminded me far too much of where I am from. Like Sudbury, it's kind of a big city, it looks very new-world, it's in the middle of nowhere, and while it's probably a good place to live in and be a local, it just wasn't very captivating from a foreigner's perspective. It just turned 455 years old, though.
Oh, it's interesting to hear. And Sudbury is how old?
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Listvyanka is the first town you hit as you drive down the road following the Angara from Irkutsk. It's immediately East of the mouth of the river entering Baikal. The centre of it is touristy in a typical beachy way. Loads of Russians swimming, walking around, cracking open beers, grilling meat and fish, and eating ice cream. It's not for me, but it was good for an introduction to the lake.
The highlight was the The Great Baikal Trail leading out of Listvyanka. It's serene and empty of any humans or development. Within an hour you feel like you are in the middle of the wilderness, and you kind of are.
That's what I was trying to explain to Bale earlier. That in Russia there is no sprawl like in the US. Once you get out of the "civilization" spots - (cities, villages,) it's the wilderness out there ( in that part of the country at least.)
I was watching Boris cooking and start to wonder: how much of the food you Russians eat are 'traditional' food from your area? Or do you eat much pasta and so on?
Studying closely the eating habits of the enemy, are we?
I was watching Boris cooking and start to wonder: how much of the food you Russians eat are 'traditional' food from your area? Or do you eat much pasta and so on?
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What do you mean by "pasta"? People eat noodles, as an alternative to rice or potatoes, it's normal. Do you mean Italian pasta?
I was watching Boris cooking and start to wonder: how much of the food you Russians eat are 'traditional' food from your area? Or do you eat much pasta and so on?
I think, that 'traditional' food is "schi" (cabbage soup), Ukrainian "borsch" (beet soup), "kasha" (boiled grains, for exemple, buckwheat and others), boiled turnip (btw, I've never tried it), pancakes (with filling), bread, honey (including fermented honey and water), "kvass" (fermented bread and water).
Russia is the multinational country, so the food is very diverse. Includes pasta. But pasta with stewed meat is popular, but not historically traditional food.
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( And by the way how was food in wagon - restaurant on that train? 
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