A tribute to the metal workers (the "crocodiles")and the arms makers of Izhevsk. The arms factories in Izhevsk were first established in 1760, with the real expansion occuring just prior to the Industrial Revolution, or in the early 1800s. (We're headed to the Kalashnikov museum soon, so I will have lots more to say about gun making, much to my surprise....I really never thought this would get to be an area of commentary for me, but hey, life happens...)
Saturday is apparently bride's day, and for Russian weddings, people hop in their cars and go to prominent places in the city and have their picture taken. As Hannah and I were playing tourist at all the same prominent places, we saw many, many brides on Saturday!
(Below) This is on the monument shown on the previous post, and is in the Udmurt language, which shares some of the same characteristics as Finnish. You can kind of see the umlat (not sure I spelled that correctly) of the first letter of the second word, and again directly underneath--there are no umlats in russian...
Saturday is apparently bride's day, and for Russian weddings, people hop in their cars and go to prominent places in the city and have their picture taken. As Hannah and I were playing tourist at all the same prominent places, we saw many, many brides on Saturday!
Next to the presidential palace is a bandstand. When we were walking by on Sat., there were people enjoying the music and dancing. The music was very fast, almost like klezmer (not sure I spelled that correctly either), and it had the same kind of quick beat so that people danced in circles with little steps.
We went to a very large market, composed of tent stalls and found this cowboy indicating a men's store. You'll find a funny mix of western alphabet and cyrillic, especially pertaining to consumer goods--food and fashion especially... I'm assuming this is a globalized take on urban cowboy, as I'm not sure of any other time when a cowboy indicated a city fashion, but hey, why not?
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