26/06: Kizhi in February
So this will be the first of my reports with pictures.
It will be quite short, I'm still testing... In February, 2006 we reached famous wooden architecture museum Kizhi in Karelia. As for me, that's probably one of my favourite places in Russia, but it's broadly visited from people all over the world mostly during summer, when you can get to Kizhi Island by 'Kometa' hydrofoil from Petrozavodsk.
In winter you can reach Kizhi by foot :), by helicopter that goes twice a week from local airport (or any time you like if you rent it) and by the hovership you also need to rent. Hovership variant was quite ingenious - nowadays hydrofoils are in a huge decay and ports that need vessels like that buy hoverships. But they do not know often what to do with them, confining themselves to service needs and taking people to a short trips on ice on weekends.
It will be quite short, I'm still testing... In February, 2006 we reached famous wooden architecture museum Kizhi in Karelia. As for me, that's probably one of my favourite places in Russia, but it's broadly visited from people all over the world mostly during summer, when you can get to Kizhi Island by 'Kometa' hydrofoil from Petrozavodsk.
In winter you can reach Kizhi by foot :), by helicopter that goes twice a week from local airport (or any time you like if you rent it) and by the hovership you also need to rent. Hovership variant was quite ingenious - nowadays hydrofoils are in a huge decay and ports that need vessels like that buy hoverships. But they do not know often what to do with them, confining themselves to service needs and taking people to a short trips on ice on weekends.
22/06: AT - Russian Timetables
Before posting some reports with pictures, I'll say a few words about one of our project - collection of transport timetables of ex-USSR countries All-Transport.Info (AT).
Frankly speaking, I don't care much about timetables, but when we understood that most part of Russia is still Terra Incognita we felt obliged to start a project of that kind. Mostly it contains buses timetables, then river ships, then suburban trains (in Russia suburban trains can ride up to 6-7 hours, heh) and rare airplains. Regular airlines and Intercity trains ARE NOT covered due to several on-line sources somehow happened to appear in recent years. There are also some intercity trolleys, sea ports, one subway and scheduled tractor as exceptions.
Unfortunately it's still not translated, but our computer genius Alex Fetisov promised to invent something. Funnily Enough, but I consider AT project one of the most important social web projects in Russia. Probably we should nominate it for some grant, but we are too lazy (or too busy).
So if you know Russian, bring your maps and explore how everything goes (or often doesn't go) here.
Frankly speaking, I don't care much about timetables, but when we understood that most part of Russia is still Terra Incognita we felt obliged to start a project of that kind. Mostly it contains buses timetables, then river ships, then suburban trains (in Russia suburban trains can ride up to 6-7 hours, heh) and rare airplains. Regular airlines and Intercity trains ARE NOT covered due to several on-line sources somehow happened to appear in recent years. There are also some intercity trolleys, sea ports, one subway and scheduled tractor as exceptions.
Unfortunately it's still not translated, but our computer genius Alex Fetisov promised to invent something. Funnily Enough, but I consider AT project one of the most important social web projects in Russia. Probably we should nominate it for some grant, but we are too lazy (or too busy).
So if you know Russian, bring your maps and explore how everything goes (or often doesn't go) here.
21/06: Introduction to KTP
Hi Everybody!
My name is Mitjan Kryukov. I'm the coordinator of Russian Transport Travellers Club (Klub Transportnyh Ruteshestvennikov aka KTP).
KTP was found presumably in 2000 by ex-railway officer Wsewolod S. Putnik and at those times was more a group of friends hanging round Moscow region.
Nowadays it developed to a unique non-governmental organization for Russia which tries to visit unnkown, but interesting places of the country, create challenging routes, ride exceptional means of transportation etc. etc.
We have quite a large amount of articles and other texts and photos summarizing our experience. We also have several side projects, like biggest ex-USSR transport timetable web-project or some guides. Most eccentric side project is KTP team in 'Chto?Gde?Kogda?', most popular Russian brain game, but we'll talk about it another time.
We would like to present some of our reports, news and surely pictures here. We hope they'll be of some interest to you.
So, POEHALI, as we say here.
My name is Mitjan Kryukov. I'm the coordinator of Russian Transport Travellers Club (Klub Transportnyh Ruteshestvennikov aka KTP).
KTP was found presumably in 2000 by ex-railway officer Wsewolod S. Putnik and at those times was more a group of friends hanging round Moscow region.
Nowadays it developed to a unique non-governmental organization for Russia which tries to visit unnkown, but interesting places of the country, create challenging routes, ride exceptional means of transportation etc. etc.
We have quite a large amount of articles and other texts and photos summarizing our experience. We also have several side projects, like biggest ex-USSR transport timetable web-project or some guides. Most eccentric side project is KTP team in 'Chto?Gde?Kogda?', most popular Russian brain game, but we'll talk about it another time.
We would like to present some of our reports, news and surely pictures here. We hope they'll be of some interest to you.
So, POEHALI, as we say here.
