waiting for a bus near metro universityet - a place I find myself quite often
exploring parts of the city center with Snezhana - apparently all the really rich people shop here
snazzy Moscow building
they turned the fountains on for May 1!
Snezhana with Natasha, who goes to CMC but has been abroad all year (half somewhere in Africa, half in St. Petersburg, but she was visiting Moscow that weekend)
Snezhana with me
Red Square
inside GUM which is seriously under construction
pretty sky waiting for the bus
my new matroshka doll from a market in St. Petersburg!
check out the tiniest one...
looking out from my sector in the main building
grassy area near my sector
now that's what I call the inter-web
more pretty shots of MGU near my sector
these are common day-to-day sights
the gate where you have to show your pass to get in
look, green things!
random gargoyle...?
typical fence (these are seriously everywhere)
entrance to sector V
outside the entrance gate
median on mendeleevskaya ulitsa
view from across the street
once again looking back at the main building from the west side
heading towards the entrance to metro universityet (it's the yellow circular building on the right)
random military band outside Ramstore on Victory Day
inside the Ramstore mall - they have fake palm trees...
oh Russia!
no seriously, check it out, GREEN THINGS
typical trolleybus adorned with flags for victory day
looking out from the main entrance to the main building; the building far away is the MGU library that I'm pretty sure no one uses (long story)
looking up at the main entrance to the main building
walking westward toward my sector
entrance to my sector
view just after entering my sector, there's a guard at a desk to the left who you have to show your pass to
the hallway to my room (second to last door on the right)
another view of the courtyard outside my sector
same thing only facing more westward
blurry victory day fireworks
more fireworks
ridiculous traffic jam in poor lighting
ridiculous traffic jam, blurry style
sunset from my window, take 1
sunset from my window, take 2
post-sunset sky
purple and white tulips that are planted everywhere from the metro to ploshad indiri gandi along the median of lomonosovsky prospect
I am amused that a few yellow ones snuck their way in :)
rainy saturday
still rainy saturday
broccoli soup in the cafe under crazy lighting
yum!! chicken cutlet as it should be, complete with french fries
a fountain at the kievskaya train/metro station
plaque about the fountain
Laura going up an escalator to cross the Moscow river in a snazzy overpass
view from the snazzy overpass
river boat tour of Moscow!
(all of the next set of photos are from the boat tour on the Moscow river)
that evening, main university building at night
walking back to my sector at dusk
on the metro - jessica and nick in the next car
me with physics professor Sergei Nikolaevich
walking along mendeleevskaya ulitsa to the bus stop
random two cars that were filming something
more tulips
trodden-on tulips
mmm diesel
the intersection where I often catch the bus
hehe a yellow one!
lomonosovsky prospect
traffic at ploshad indiri gandi
the hotel universityet where Mike stayed when he was here
a typical classroom in the medical faculty building
view out the window of the classroom
view down 5 storys onto the entryway of the medical faculty building
another view out the window
main entrance to the medical faculty building (this is where KEI's academics are based, more or less)
dandelions!
I like dandelions
random pigeons
me walking along
pretty lighting plus green things!
MSU chamber orchestra, take 1
and take 2 - everyone's either hiding or not smiling properly...
finally take 3 (switching up the photographer)
photo of a photo of my astronomy research professor and his coworker at an astronomy conference in prague last year
me with Dmitri Yurievich, my astronomy research professor
Dmitri Yurievich in his office, which he shares with at least 2 or 3 others
more pretty green things
taking the scenic route
yep, that's where I live! good landmark too
these three random buildings are also a good landmark, they're near ploshad indiri gandi and the medical faculty building
neighborhood near med fac building
waiting for Russian Studies to start...felix, laura, dima, alex, jill
it's scenic walk time!!
it was really smoggy and gross that day
here's gandi doing his thing
the next several shots: my walk back to the dorm via a random park
the physics faculty building (phys-fac)
statue of Lomonosov (I think)
look, it's a main building!
this looks like it belongs on a university pamphlet
The Main Building
(facing the opposite direction now)
random red tulips
the bus stop area right outside the main building
the only map of the main building I've ever encountered, and it was posted on a wall in a corner
the agenda for "physics day," which apparently was May 19
the main area of the 1st floor of the main building - yes that is all stone!
downstairs in sector V - the stolovaya is through the doors and around to the right is the way to go to the cafe
view out my window of more pretty green things
the setting sun did a cool reflect-refract thing through my double window
waiting for an electrichka train
Jessica and Laura
out the window of the electrichka
flowers!
this is what the outskirts of Moscow look like
this is also what the outskirts of Moscow look like
near a station
random storage units (I think?)
the interior of the crowded train (this is much less crowded than it was to start with)
Nick looks out the window
in the banya - nick, jeff, felix
Jenna, Jack, and Laura at Dima's cousin's dacha (this is the backyard)
the actual dacha (house/cottage)
the banya
emerging from the banya
still emerging from the banya
posing for "we survived" shots
(take 2)
Felix and his dandelion crown
darts! (the pink dart is in mid-air!)
more darts (the pink dart is in mid-air again!)
Jeff plays with the most obnoxious singing puppet ever
no seriously, it was obnoxious
the darts
playing durak
Jessica was the durak...
a dead leech that apparently was put in beer? don't ask, I didn't go with them to the pond, I just took a picture of the dead leech...
the group just prior to enjoying the Russian-style BBQ
heading back to the train station
typical outskirts-of-Moscow road
freight train passes by
more train
hey look a train
the view down the tracks
waiting at the platform
the train approaches...
here comes the train! back to Moscow we go.
entrance to Gorky Park
flag kiosk outside Gorky Park entrance
carousel!
buying tickets ($2 entrance fee)
huge fountain inside the park
another view of the fountain
toi-toi - only 15 rubles!
more fountain
bumper cars
it's really just an old airplane that they tried to make look like a shuttle...
weird mirrors, part 1
weird mirrors, part 2
riding one of those kiddie carousels for around $1, a spectacular waste of money
but it was Jeff's idea
blurry background
one of the Japenese girls we went to the park with, Rie
the other Japanese girl, Yasuko
on the metro, heading back - blurry
on the metro, heading back - with a flash
last night in Moscow - Yasuko, Jessica, Rie, and me
