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Friday 29 August 2014

My Trip to Russia. Part 4. Ozersk. 3/3

My Trip to Russia. Part 4.
Ozersk Cont'd

A new church has recently been built in my town:







The University Building with giant fir tree in front..






Another Lake. Nanoga (in Pushtu language Nanoga means the Evil Lake :) We have two Nanoga-s in Ozersk, the greater Nanoga and the smaller Nanoga. 




The Blue Fir trees -- 



College Building --


Lenin Square--


Lenin Memorial --


 Ozersk --




My Trip to Russia Part 3. Ozersk. Streets and Buildings. Photos. 2/3

My Trip to Russia. Part III



Ozersk -- Streets and Buildings (2/3)
First, is the photo of the founder of our town -- nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project.




The town started as a settlement of engineers who worked on the development of nuclear weapon.  This is the reason the location was chosen to be the Ural Mountains, as geographically it is almost in the middle of the country, and neither the Western, nor the Eastern countries can reach it easily. (This is also why USA now wants Ukraine to join NATO so badly, so that the US could position its military rockets next to the Russian border: this way the rockets could reach the Urals, where all the important sites are, with greater probability)
Because of its important function, the town has always had a special standing for Russia, and even in hard times of shortages in Russia, the town and its people always had everything they needed. 
During the USSR-times, the only way to get into Ozёrsk was to be directed there by the government, and only the smartest and luckiest people were able to achieve that. 
Though now the people with all kinds of professions live in Ozersk, the best positions are still those that are associated with the development of nuclear weapon at the nuclear plant called Mayak. 
(My dad is a senior nuclear engineer there.)
Our houses are generally much bigger and have more creative designs than most of the houses in Ottawa. 

We also love gates!














The theatre called "Our Home" and the town administration buildings:






To be Continued...

Thursday 28 August 2014

My Trip to Russia Part 2. Ozersk.1/3Lake Irtyash


My Trip to Russia Part II. Ozersk 
My Town - Ozёrsk 
Lake Irtyash
Ozёrsk is situated right next to Ekaterinburg, one of the biggest cities in Russia. By "right next to" I mean 2-hours-by-car-away; for Russia, this is considered to be a very-very small distance.
As I said, my town is rather different from most other towns in Russia.
Most other small towns in Russia look much like villages with some concrete and brick buildings and a lot of wooden houses.
In my town there are no wooden houses. 
The town is very beautiful. It is surrounded on all sides by lakes and mountains with pine forests and birch groves ("Ozersk" in Russian means something close to "The Lake Town"). For that reason too, it has very healthy and clean air.
It is also a safe town because it is closed and only those who live there can enter and leave it.

Here is, in my opinion, the most beautiful spot in Ozersk; it is one of the shores of Lake Irtyash with a white stone arbour. (In Bashikrian word "Irtyash" means "a place where there are stones".)

In the Ural mountains, most names of old lakes, rivers, mountains and villages are in Bashkirian;  Bashkirians are the native people of the Ural Mountains Region.
















To Be Continued...