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82-08. Muzhestvo Square with post-Soviet advertisements jack-pot 24 hours (at a former movie theatre) and relax smartly intended for young Russian businessmen. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 19, 1999.Similar picturesLarge thumbnails | Use small thumbnails | View as slideshow |
 A. V. Sergeev in his lab of the former 16th Department of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute. A chemical bottle is intended for watering a plant, it is labelled pit nelzya (don t drink in Russian). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.  Avrora movie theatre on Nevsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 2, 2013  Aurora (Avrora) movie theatre on Nevsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013  Decaying Soviet era sculpture of a sportsmen at a holiday home Syargi west of Toksovo, 10 miles north of Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 26, 1999.  Soviet era sculpture of dancing peasants(?) in front of a holiday home Syargi west of Toksovo, 10 miles north of Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 26, 1999.  The Hermitage (Winter Palace) at Dvortsovaya Square. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney and a Soviet-era exposition. (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.  Modern Soviet art in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 11, 2012  Purdue University Mall during afternoon hours. West Lafayette, Indiana, September 21, 1999.  Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney and a Soviet-era exposition. The museum was settled in a former typewriting office (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.  A monument to a Soviet academician S. I. Vavilov (a brother of a well-known biologist executed for political reasons) in front of a new building of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute. The monument faces barbed wire surrounding the institute at Vasilyevsky Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.  View of Troitsky Bridge from Suvorovskaya Square. It is similar to Alexander III Bridge in Paris. Blue dome of a mosque is seen at the opposite bank of Neva River. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  Jack Yang in "King Buffet" restaurant. Lafayette, Indiana, April 30, 1999.  Slippery Jack mushrooms (Suillus luteus, Maslionok in Russian) in Orekhovo, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 17, 2016  Slippery Jack mushroom (Suillus luteus, Maslionok in Russian) on roadside near Lembolovo, 45 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 27, 2013  Politekhnicheskaya Street at northern corner of Muzhestva Square. A hand-written inscription reads Kill Yankee (related to Yugoslavia bombing). A big street shield announces Petersburg hockey championship-2000. Women with plastic bags go shopping. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 19, 1999.  Bolshoi Dom (Russian secret police ChK-GPU-NKVD-KGB-FSK) at Liteynyi Prospect in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Compare its architecture with Federal Building in Dallas. April 21, 1999.  Decaying plaster on a building of 4th Central Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense facing Fontanka River opposite to Summer Garden. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  Chinese Theatre, destroyed during the war, in Alexandrovskiy Park of Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo, residence of Russian tsars). Near Sankt Petersburg, Russia, October 22, 2000  Staring at Malevich "Black Square" painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004  Chinese Village, now apartments for businessmen, in Catherine Park of Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 21, 2009  Statue of Aleksis Kivi and Finnish National Theatre (1872) from Railway Square. Helsinki, Finland, July 18, 2015  View of Kresty prison from Robespyera Embankment of Neva River. Two buildings have a shape of crosses (kresty mean crosses in Russian). Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 21, 1999.  Monument of a Russian revolutioner Vladimir Lenin on a square in front of Finlandsky Train Station. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2011  Raising summer houses of affluent businessmen (sometimes called Novye Russkiye, New Russians, or nouveau riches) on hills of Toksovo, 10 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 4, 2004  Avrora movie theater at 60 Nevsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 28, 2009  Central post office at Sovetskaya Square in Kemerovo. Siberia, Russia, September 14, 2002  Quantum chemistry group of Purdue University (Qicun Shi, Pablo Nigra, Jack Yang, Stephen Belair, Sabre Kais, Aaron Stanton) in front of "King Buffet" restaurant after $8 seafood dinner. Lafayette, Indiana, April 30, 1999.  Avrora movie theater on Nevsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 14, 2007  Aurora Movie Theater on Nevsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 11, 2014  Young leaf of mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia, Russian name Ryabina) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 20, 2017  Swan Lake ballet in Imperial Theatre on the Fontanka. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2003  Swan Lake ballet in Imperial Theatre on the Fontanka. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2003  Close up of a young leaf of mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia, Russian name Ryabina) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 20, 2017  Young leaves and a flower bud of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus, Moroshka in Russian) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 28, 2009  Young leaf of mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia, Russian name Ryabina) in Pavlovsk Park, suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 15, 2011  Young silvery leaves of mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia, Russian name Ryabina) in Pavlovsk Park, suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 15, 2011  Young leaves of mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia, Russian name Ryabina) near Kavgolovskoe Lake in Toksovo, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 19, 2015  Young leaves of swamp blueberry (Vaccinium uliginosum, Russian name Golubika or Gonobobel) in Sosnovka Park in Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 31, 2011  Young silvery leaf of mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia, Russian name Ryabina) in Pavlovsk Park, suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 15, 2011  Young shaggy scalycap mushrooms (Pholiota squarrosa, Russian name Cheshuychatka) in Lisiy Nos, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 12, 2016  Chinese Theatre in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2017  Soviet porcelain in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2018  Young yellow coral mushroom Ramaria flava (Russian name Rogatik) near Orekhovo, 40 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, July 16, 2016  Young leaves of Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis, Russian name Landysh) in Dubki Park. Sestroretsk, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 19, 2011  Young leaves with hovering mosquito and a flower of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus, Moroshka in Russian) in Sosnovka Park in Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 31, 2011  Jack Yang, Stephen Belair and Pablo Nigra in the lab of the Department of Chemistry (a little white fan later 5/31/99 caused a fire). Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, January 6, 1999.  Young red leaves of an oak tree after a rain on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 2, 2009  An apartment in Pushkin, suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 8, 1999.  The house behind Olginskiy Pond in Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 22, 1999.  A house at Konnogvardeyskiy Boulevard. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  Admiralteyskiy Canal and New Holland (to the right). Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  Young orange aspen bolete mushroom (Leccinum aurantiacum, Russian name Podosinovik) in a forest around Kavgolovskoe Lake, near Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 6, 2013  Entrance to Petersburg University and Mendeleev Museum from Universitetskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  View of Petersburg University and Menshikovskiy Palace from Angliyskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  A. V. Sergeev among birches in Sosnovka Park with evening fog. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 15, 1999.  A spire of Mikhailovsky Castle at Sadovaya Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  A narrow birch alley in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 10, 1999.  Fir forest west of Toksovo, 10 miles north of Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 26, 1999.  Birches west of Toksovo, 10 miles north of Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 26, 1999.  Church of Savior on Blood (recently renovated). Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 6, 1999.  Moyka River south from Summer Garden. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  Young leaves of Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis, Russian name Landysh) on Angliyskaya Alley in Upper Garden. Oranienbaum (Lomonosov), a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 11, 2016  Political protests (Day of Wrath) near a monument of a Soviet poet V. Mayakovsky. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 12, 2011  Soviet style staircase of an old house at 5 Kommunisticheskaya Street in Kronstadt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 24, 2012  Modern painting with portraits of Soviet leaders in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021  Gates of a Soviet maritime factory on Petrovskaya Street in Kronstadt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 24, 2012  Gates of Theatre Alley in Pavlovsk Park. Pavlovsk, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 17, 2013  View of the Hermitage (Winter Palace) from Dvortsovy Bridge. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 6, 1999.  Crossing of Kolomiazhskiy Prospekt near subway station Pionerskaia. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  Ant-hill in a fir forest west of Toksovo, 10 miles north of Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 26, 1999.  View of Peter and Paul Fortress from Troitskiy Bridge. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.  View of Peter and Paul Fortress from Kronverkskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 6, 1999.  Church of Savior on Blood with recently restored mosaic. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 6, 1999.  Smol nyi Cathedral and monastery at a bend of Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 21, 1999.  Alexandrovsky Park in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 8, 1999.  Russian Victory Day picnic (a tri-color sheet is a new Russian flag). Fort Ouiatenon near Lafayette, Indiana, May 9, 1999.  Tomb of a Soviet medical scientist S. A. Holdin in Komarovo, 25 miles west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 16, 2013  Soviet office (Kabinet) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011  Tomb of a Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova in Komarovo, 25 miles west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 16, 2013  Soviet kitchen (Kukhnia) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011  Mossy stone gate of Theatre Alley in Pavlovsk Park. Pavlovsk, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 17, 2013  1st Krasnoarmeyskaya Street and Trinity orthodox cathedral at Izmailovsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 24, 1999. |
