Trip to Russia

Basic facts

Who: Tatiana, Maxim & Nikolai

Where and when:

Trip Tucson - Russia - Tucson	2001	Type	Direction	Distance km	Distance mi	dT
Tucson - Los Angeles	5/19-5/19		NW	720	450	0
Los Angeles - Moscow	5/19-5/20		E	9790	6080	+11
Moscow - St. Petersburg	5/21-5/22		N	630	390	0
St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk	5/25-5/26		E	3100	1830	+3
Novosibirsk - Petropavlovsk	5/29-5/30		W	880	540	0
Petropavlovsk - Shadrinsk	6/2 - 6/2		NW	370	230	-1
Shadrinsk - Moscow	6/7- 6/9		W	1610	1000	-2
Moscow - Borodino (10 mi W from Mozhaysk)	6/10-6/10		W	110	70	0
Borodino - Moscow	6/11-6/11		E	110	70	0
Moscow - Los Angeles	6/13-6/13		W	9790	6080	-11
Los Angeles - Tucson	6/13-6/14			720	450	0
Total	5/19-6/14			27800	17200

Note that in the above table the differences in time correspond to summer. Remark: Unlike Arizona, many states and countries shift their time back and forth and it causes a variety of problems (e.g. shortage in energy in California).

Russian Federation

Red dot - Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan), Blue dot - Shadrinsk

Towns	Founded	Population	Latitude	Longitude
Tucson, AZ	1776	0.5 M (Metro 0.8 M)	32° 7' N	110° 56' W
Los Angeles, CA	1781	3.7 M (Metro 15+ M)	33° 56' N	118° 24' W
Moscow, Russia	1147	9+ M	55.7500° N	37.5833 ° E
St. Petersburg, Russia	1703	5+ M	59.8944° N	30.2642° E
Petropavlovsk Northern Kazakhstan	1752	250 000	54.8753° N	69.1628° E
Shadrinsk, Russia Ural / W. Siberia	1662	90 000	56.0833° N	63.6333° E
Mozhaysk, Russia	1231		55.5019° N	36.0272° E
Novosibirsk, Russia Western Siberia	1893	1.5 M (2000)	55.0333° N	82.9167° E

Using the program Global Distances (see the Download page) you can calculate distances yourself (see Global Distances for details)

Some details

Los Angeles airport

Nikolai, Tatiana, Maxim, Kirill (who happened to be in LA at that time)

Moscow

in Kremlin

Max at Russia's Zero km

in Kremlin

Max and Nikolai in front of St. Basil Cathedral (Red Square)

"Red Square" is a common but incorrect translation of "Krasnaya Ploschad". "Krasnaya" in the modern Russian really means "Red" but at the time when the square got its name (17th century) this word meant "Beautiful" (for "red" was "chervony" as in some modern Slavic languages). In Russian fairy tales you often meet a character "Krasna devitsa". It should be translated "Beautiful girl" and not "Red girl".

Between the Cathedral and us you can see the monument:

The monument to Kozma Minin and Dmitri Pozharsky

Next to the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed stands the monument to Kozma Minin and Dmitri Pozharsky, the heroes of the national struggle for liberation against the Swedish and Polish invaders in 1610-1612. High-relief scenes on the bronze plaques set into the pedestal show the people of Nizhny Novgorod donating money and valuables for the army, and the Russians driving out the Poles. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "To Citizen Minin and Prince Pozharsky from a grateful Russia 1818''.

To the left from the Cathedral is a former place of execution (by decapitation) "Lobnoye Mesto":

Max in Lobnoye Mesto
(To the left - Tanya and her sister Lyuba)

Tsar Ivan IV (The Terrible) watched the executions from Tsar Tower of the Kremlin (more to the right from the Cathedral):

To the right of the Cathedral the well-known German hooligan Rust landed his plane.

Old church in Kolomenskoye (Moscow)

Wooden architecture from Northern Russia

Cafe "Uncle Sam". Moscow, Staryi Arbat


Staryi ( Old ) Arbat	Triumphal Arch

Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer
It was recently completely recreated.
The original was blown up in the 30s

Night train "Moscow - St. Petersburg"

Next : St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Shadrinsk, Mozhaisk

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