My Street

I thought it would be interesting to show you one of the streets in my hometown, which is an average-sized city in the central (read: European) part of Russia. By walking down just this one street, one can see the gap between the old and the new, the disparity between the well-off and the poor, and, of course, the local color.

The house built at the turn of the 20th century is seen next to the 21st century highrise


Take a closer look at the reality of modern Russia through the eyes of people simply walking up and down one of the many smaller streets in one of the many provincial towns of this huge country. I promise you it will be eye-opening for some and, at the same time, very familiar to others.

This is one of the most common apartment buildings of the 1990s
And the parking lot is probably the best one I've seen in my town

This is a public kindergarten that looks renovated on the outside

"The Market" - this shopping hall was built to replace the central outdoor market for clothes and shoes



This white-brick house would be considered "pretty good" according to Russian standards
It's a duplex home shared by two families, not too poor but not too rich



New detached homes are rising right in the middle of the old housing

On my walk, I saw several abandoned houses like this

This is an old but very cute house with carved shutters and a birch tree in the front

A small city park with a monument to Evgeniy Boratynsky, a Russian poet born in this region (1800-1844) 

The hockey center "Crystal" with an indoor ice rink

The nice side of the street and hopefully the future of all small streets in Russia

You can see a more detailed photo report in  the Picasa photo album of My street