Nancy has decided this will be her last year teaching so after two years in Moscow we’ll be headed back to the US in the middle of July. I’ve put together a slideshow of images from our neighborhood so we’ll remember it.
We live on Gruzinsky Pereolok (or sidestreet or lane)( Грузинский переулок ) which starts by intersecting with Gruzinsky Street (Грузинский улица) on one end and ends at Bolshoi (big or large) Gruzinsky (Большой Грузинский) on the other. As you can see there are a lot Grunzinskys so while it’s not officially known as the “Gruzinsky neighborhood” that’s what we call it. Actually our building is called Kruzinsky or Kruz for short.
Russians do this a lot with multiple, near-the-same street names making for a very confusing situation especially when you first move in. Aside from Gruzinsky Pereolok, Tverskaya Street (Тверская улица) is a good example that’s totally confusing. It’s a main street in Moscow leading from the Kremlin and has different names all starting with “Tverskaya xxx” for different segments of the street taking on the name of various neighborhoods until it gets to the Belorruskaya Train and Metro stations (our neighborhood). There it changes name completely to Leningradsky Street (Ленинградская улица). As you can imagine what’s been very helpful over time to have a GPS with a Cyrillic keyboard…
On a typical outing I first look up where we want to go. I then translate it to Cyrillic (Google Translate helps a lot). Then I print the Cyrillic out on paper and finally type it into the GSP using the Cyrillic keyboard – piece of cake…
In some of the images, if your Cyrillic (Russian) is not up-to-speed and as good as mine (cough, cough) I’ve provided a translation. In some cases you can do a letter-by-letter translation of the word while at other times you have to know what the Russian word means.
Our neighborhood is an interesting mix of European, Soviet era and modern, westernized buildings. Since we’ve been here we’ve seen many new modern buildings replace the older ones.
We live near the Belorruskaya (Белору́сская) train and Metro stations. Moscow’s metro system is excellent making getting around the city and Moscow’s three airports very easy. This makes the neighborhood quite attractive and a very convenient place to live. It seems to be an up-and-coming place and we’ve been fortunate to spend our two years here.
If you’re interested the easiest way to view the slideshow is to click on this link:
http://vimeo.com/65497107
I’ve also posted the slideshow on my Website:
www.andrewmcdonoughphotography.com Click on the RUSSIA link.
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