May 2011
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April 2011
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September 2010
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June 2010
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Komatsu starts in Yaroslavl
by Djikaru
One of the largest assembly plants in Russia is going to start its work coming autumn. The Komatsu plant construction has been finished this week.
The first set of ecskavators (about 300 units) will be produced untill the end of the year. The plan for next year when total power will be reached is 3000 of ecskavators and 7000 of loaders. The Japanise investors want to recoup this...
May 2010
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Yaroslavl in Twitter
by Evgeny Pavlov
When we started this blog one year ago, almost nobody had twitter account in Yaroslavl. Now the situation has been changed: more then three hundreds people from Yaroslavl post short messages every day. No wonder why I’ve decided to show you some interesting translated tweets related to Yaroslavl.
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Tweet
Elipona
Nash hypermarket (Link to tweet)
VirHos
Tomorrow I...
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Complane in your ears
by Evgeny Pavlov
Lots of Yaroslavl Music Bands had been founded while their musicians were studying together in universities. Complane is one of such groups. Nice instrumental music from Physics Department of State University.
Complane is a fresh experimental music and, at the same time, alternative jazz project. There is no any sponsor, and it is the reason of doing the project themselves...
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Integrated transport card
by Djikaru
A great air traffic problem, appeared after Icelandic volcano eruption, shows that the international transport system has to be changed. Igor Levitin, the transport minister of Russian Federation, proposed to introduce an unified ticket for all transports in Europe.
While the Europeans think, the Yaroslavl locals do! In May an integrated transport card is going to be introdused. It...
April 2010
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Blooming Yaroslavl
by Djikaru
Yaroslavl is going to wallow in flowers in its anniversary!!!
This year there are much more participants of the action “Yaroslavl in bloom” than last one. Many people - leaders of different businesses, workers of pedagogical and medical units, clergy representatives - plan to take care about their territories in the beginning of spring. Yaroslavl is one of famous leaders...
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Large projects for Large city
by Djikaru
The list of objects for Yaroslavl anniversary replenished by one more investment project. In the begining of the summer a huge mall called Tandem is going to come in sight. It will offer a various choice of construction and finishing materials, furniture, sport stuff, household appliances and gardening.
To realize the grandiosity of the project just imagine: its’ overall...
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March 2010
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Moskovsky Prospect Becomes Wider!
by Djikaru
Moskovsky Prospect reconstruction has approached to the peak. The builders have started the most difficult part, that is the road widening under the railway bridge. It is going to be 6 traffic lines there instead of the 4. The work will start in next few days.
There are two backstays on the sides of the bridge. The idea of the roads’ widening is to move this backstays...
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Video Week #1
by Evgeny Pavlov
I would like to present another idea which — sure! — connected with Yaroslavl. How much did you see Yaroslavl videos? Or have you ever seen them? Now it is possible, because it is absolutely fresh video project: every day I make no more than 10 seconds clip and each week you can see one compilation!
The first week was from March 18th until March 24th. By the way, you can see...
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The progress is detected
by Djikaru
Inventors from Vologda proved — ultraviolet can be used instead of chlorine!
Public utilities of the Necrasovsky district got a new hi-tech setting for water purifying. So the sewage water there is now worked up with ultraviolet and ultrasound. The chlorine has been denied thus the unsafe discharges to Volga river has been reduced to zero. Nearby municipalities take an interest in...
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Dancing Shoes is an exciting indie music band from...
by Evgeny Pavlov
It is very easy to write about a music band when a singer sings Russian songs. Everything is differently when a band performing in English is being reviewed. But I am going to try doing it, because this group is amazing.
It is this kind of group when the birth could be only possible by chance. For instance, there was a very funny story of joining the band by Kseniya...
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Demino maraphon — the snow challenge
by Djikaru
The Demino sky trail becomes more and more popular among European sportsmen. There are more than a thousand members in Sundays start, and there are some German, French, Latvian, Ukrain and Belarusian skiers in the midst of the contestants. And even some Olimpic winners came here, to Demino, to take part in the 50-kilometers marathon.
This marathon is going to become the most...
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New life of the old club
by Djikaru
Yaroslavl got its own Youth Palace. The old club called Gigant became a home for the young and creative. The decision to transfer the building from Philarmonic to Youth Department control was taken on the outumn of the 2009. Since that time the new team started to create a special creative space. Any help is invited.
Small but cheerful team discusses projects which can surprise...
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A play-off permission for the Railmen!
by Djikaru
There were almost 89 minutes of the game and only 3 dropped pucks last Sunday. In a hard and long game the “Lokomotiv” hockey team won a pass to the next stage of the play-off. “Atlant” (a team from Podmoscovye) went on holiday. The game was equal and principled — as the fans wanted to see.
On the eve of Sunday the score in Head-to-Head games was 2:1 in...
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A proof of the Renewed Bridge
by Джикару
The public traffic throught the new part of the Kotorosl Bridge was reopened. On Wednesday public transport started to use the rebuild part of the viaduct.
It was only a half of the task. On Wednesday morning the the public traffic started to flow through the new part of the bridge across the river Kotorosl. We would remind you that to not to break the connection between the...
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Yaroslavl Front Door #5: Sverdlova Street, 9
by Джикару
General information
We are in front of the building known for most of Yaroslavl citizens as Ars-Cinema. The cinema rested in peace in 1994 and now there are “Ars-Forum” and Yaroslavl Chamber Theatre there. However, the original mission of the building was far from arts.
It was built in 1913 as House Of Mutual Help For Private Official Labour. The meaning of the title is rather...
February 2010
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Maslenitsa came to Yaroslavl
Maslenitsa came to Yaroslavl. The First Maslenitsa events took place on Wednesday, February 10, in Museum-Reserve. A lot of pupils took part in it.
Maslenitsa events started in The Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve. The First participants of a Maslenitsa cortege were pupils. Many customs of this holiday have been forgotten after thousands of years. For example, forefathers didn’t make only the...
January 2010
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The biggest snowman
A record tall snowman was built by a man from Zavolzhsky district. The hight of the main symbol of Russian winter is 4 meters!
Sergey Martsenko has decided to create a handmade gladness and share it with children. Now the author of the snowman is the local celebrity. All neighborhood kids are coming to his house (and even from kindergarten). Some of them helped him to build the snowman.
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December 2009
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Woe from Wit is a nominee of Golden Mask
The performance “Woe from Wit” of our Volkov Theater was nominated in the famous Russian theatrical award Golden Mask in the following nominations:
Best Large Scale Production
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Designer
and Best Light Designer
The Golden Mask is a National Theatre Award which was founded in 1994 by the Theatre Union of Russia and is given to productions in all...
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New trolleybus line in Yaroslavl #6 from...
There will be a new trollybus line on Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya Street. Now this line, which will be from Main Railway Station to Bogoyavleniya Square, is putting on trial. The first passenger transportation will begin in two days. According to the mayor of Yaroslavl, the work with bus stops and traffic signs is needed to be finished.
Now everybody can appreciate new noiseless trolleybuses....
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December 14 is a very cold day
I think the winter is in Yaroslavl now. Everybody felt it today morning when has known about the weather and the degree. It was -25 degrees below zero.
Some bus lines didn’t work and people had to wait. For example, buses on line #43 haven’t been working all morning. Nonetheless, we are used to suffering fro such weather and sometimes it is enjoyable.
By the way, you can...
October 2009
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The sight of the pond and a part of Moskovskiy...
The migrant ducks on the pond in the park “Neftyannikov”.
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Yaroslavl For Me Podcast, Episode 4
Table of content:
Russian learning lesson with the transcript: the dialogue “The First Snow”.
The song “Nebesa” of Yaroslavl music band Broadside. Russian music with lyrics.
Our extra materials for this podcast:
The transcript of the whole 4th episode of the podcast on Google Docs.
The presentation of the podcast (as in the video) in PDF format.
Download...
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33 Minutes of Yaroslavl #1: The beginning of...
We are opening a new sub-project of our Photo section: 33 Minutes of Yaroslavl. During 33 minutes we take photographs of interesting places of Yaroslavl and than we make a shot film to show our city in action.
The beginning of Svobody street in October (map of this place). And it is Saturday.
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Aerial view of Autumn's Moskovskiy prospekt
The view of Moskovskiy prospekt from the top of a high building.
September 2009
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New ship was launched to the Volga
Today a new ship was launched to the Volga river. The experienced sailors didn’t conn the ship. Young sailors did that. There were a dress uniform, an orchestra and invited guests. There has not been such solemn event in Children’s Sea Center after Ushakov yet. And only because the young sailors were presented with a ship.
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Architecture of Movement's parks
Parks, parks and parks. There are lots of parks in Yaroslavl which are very green and beautiful either in summer and winter. You can just talk a walk or run in a circle. But there are more interesting things which have been realised by Architecture of Movement organisers.
Three times during this September — 6th, 13th and 27th — there were great performances directly in parks.
Dancing,...
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Jazz at Large
Another interesting event was on 16th of September. As all events of September, this one was also provided by Architecture of Movement.
The name of the quite amazing performance was “Jazz na Svobode” (either Free Jazz and Jazz at Large, a Russian pun). The main idea was to play jazz on the balcony and in the same time passersby can’t see an orchestra. They only...
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The biggest conference in Yaroslavl
The modern state and Global security is the name of the greatest conference ever which took place in Yaroslavl yesterday.
September 14, 2009 International Conference “The Modern State and Global Security” organized and held under the aegis of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev will take place in Yaroslavl, Russia. The Key topic of the Conference is what the modern state...
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Stop Crisis with the Architecture of Movement
It is just a simple sentence on the grass which made with people on Moskovskiy prospekt. Stop Crisis or Stop Krizis is said by the Architecture of Movement to us.
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It is 60s with Stilyagis
There was another event of the Architecture of Movement (I have to mention that all September in Yaroslavl is filled with gorgeous events of the Architecture of Movements). 11th of September there was a ridiculous performance with a Stilyagi theme.
Stilyagi (Russian: стиляги, the plural of стиляга, literally “stylish”, “style hunter”) were members of a youth subculture...
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Pusto is not empty, it is an amazing videoart
What does the Russian word “Pusto” mean? Yes, I can write it in Russian as “Пусто” but if you don’t know Russian, you can’t differently say what does it mean. The simple translation of the word is empty. Nonetheless it is a famous street video festival in Russia.
Some people try to show some shot (or not) videos for other some people. The main idea is to...
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Yaroslavl Zoo celebrates its First Birthday
Inhabitants of Yaroslavl Zoo can expect to get refreshment. The wonderful village for animals is one year of age. Although this place can be called habitable, an improvement of the territory is in progress. There are new feeding-rack and houses for animals. This year a family of a deer became large: five baby animals were born! Fallow deer also was proud male.
In due course animals is getting...
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Velopanorama
There are lots of bicyclists in Yaroslavl. They are real fans of that. No wonder that an event of the Architecture of Movement was great and overcrowded.
It was the Velopanorama or the panorama of the bicycles. There were a lot of these vehicles on our streets on 5th of September.
They started from our Railway station and carried on through Svobody street and Sovetskaya square to another...
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Trends: Free Wi-Fi access in Yaroslavl
This is a new post in our new sub-category of the category News (like Details or Front Doors in Stories). Now we are going to post interesting trends of our city Yaroslavl. Today we want to write about Internet access.
We know that in most European countries there are lots of cafes and restaurants with free Wi-Fi access. In the same time our catering just begins to provide it. Yes, there were...
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Ex'libris is a positive pop rock music band
by Evgeny
Ex’libris is one of the “positive” Yaroslavl music bands which plays music in the pop-rock style. The project was founded in 1995 year by Nikolay Semenyaka. The band was a participant of lots different events like a concert in Olimpiysky, the rock-festival in Maloyaroslavets and many performances in Yaroslavl and Moscow clubs.
The music band likes to play...
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Poetical Arches
Do you know about street poetry? Many people think that there are no real poets today. Nevertheless the Architecture of Movement project (which has been mentioned recently) realized amazing poetical evening in Yaroslavl on 2nd of Semtemper.
There are lots of ancient arches in the city. They good look and in the same time they are very suitable for some art performances. For example,...
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Start with Architecture of Movement
Yesterday there was the first performance of the Architecture of Movement project which is organized for the second time. The Architecture of Movement (Архитектура движения in Russian) is a set of different kinds of events, performances and actions. Participants of this project say that the project for them is a festival of ideas.
The name of the first event is quite ordinary – Start (which in...
August 2009
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Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy monastery
This photo shows one of the walls of the Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy monastery.