Kritsky Street Photo Exhibition. Real Russia
Nikolay Kritsky used to make a camerawork for many videos of Real Russia. But his main job is photography. He is a professional commercial photographer these days.
But since the spring of 2016, during his walks with a little son, he started taking a photo camera with him and just shot all people around in the streets of Ufa and Krasnodar in Russia, and in Arambol, Northern Goa, India where he lived for three months with his family at winter 2016/2017.
That is how in time he's got a good collection of an interesting undirected photos with a people caught just in the street.
He used to post all of those photographs in his Instagram and Facebook, and began attract an attention of local people of Ufa because it is reflected the life and faces of their city,
When Nikolay's street photos got enough of resonance, the local Miras art gallery offered to make an exhibition in their walls.
In this video you may see how it looked like and to get to know the stories of creation of them from an author himself.
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Rafting, Kapova Cave, Honey Hunting in Burzyansky District of Bashkortostan. Real Russia
Trip to Burzyansky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan of Russia, located in 385km from my hometown of Ufa and the capital of the Republic. Featuring beekeepers from Tanzania and Italy - Dos Santos Silayo, Stephen Msemo and Francesco Colafemmina.
Burzyansky District is a very well-known region of Bashkortostan for it's beautiful nature - Ural Mountains, Kapova Cave, woods and rivers. Such environment is a great basement for a wild bee keeping (honey hunting) that gives one of the best wild honey in the World.
Across the Ural Mountains in Burzyansky District flows the White River (Belaya River), a largest river in the Republic of Bashkortostan of Russia. Again, thankful to a nature, it's one of the best places for rafting in a cleanest mountain stream around mountains, rocks, woods and fresh air.
Kapova Cave is a historical treasure of Burzyansky district of Bashkortostan. A cave of paleolithic era. Only the drawings which were found there is in age of at least 24,000 years.
If you will come to Burzyansky district once, you will want to get back again for sure. So am I. Planning to get back later for a more extended videos about rafting and honey hunting.
Trip organized by Kapova Tour (capova.ru), the best tour company for Burzyansky district of Bashkortostan.
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Queen Karaoke Club in Ufa. Real Russia
Nowadays in Russia, more and more popular are becoming karaoke clubs, where people may not only to have a great time but also sing their favorite songs with karaoke.
In this video I have visited Queen Karaoke Club in Ufa, Russia, located at Karl Marx street, 3B.
Burger Heroes. Moscow Burgers in Ufa. Real Russia
In this video you can see an interesting example of an influence of the Western burger culture to Russia and it's interpretation of Burger Heroes.
Burger Heroes is a Moscow chain of burger bars, now available in Ufa, Russia.
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SberCamp Quest in Vladivostok (Mazda Sollers Factory, Old Yard). Real Russia
SberCamp Quest is an event for Russian bloggers (youtubers, instagrammers, livejournalists), managed by SberBank.
Sberbank is an oldest and largest bank in Russia.
50 bloggers from all over Russia separated for 7 teams and participated in real quest around Vladivostok. They went to different locations like Sollers Mazda Factory, construction area of The Golden Horn residential complex, an old yard behind GUM department store in the historical city center, and other.
All teams were comleting different tasks with a SberCamp application for iOs and Android. Every participant had it in ta phone. They received a digital currency as a points which is called Sberlinks.
It was an interesting and original move of Sberbank to promote their brand around social networks like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and LiveJournal. Because Sberbank organized a very nice way to explore the city, playing such an interesting quest game.
Being in such a places like Mazda factory, Coca Cola, penthouse of one of the highest buildings, and historical showplaces every blogger wanted to film and photograph all around and share it with their audience. When 50 popular bloggers posted all of that stuff in the same time, in total millions of their subscribers saw that.
Back To The 90's. Unboxing Set of Foreign Sweets Popular in 90's Russia
«Back To The 90’s» is a boxset of foreign stuff that was popular in 1990’s in Russia and these days considered as a typical stuff of 90’s.
In this box there is «Turbo», «Love Is…», «Mamba», Zuko, Yupi and Dr.Pepper.
«Turbo» is the gum, originally produced since 1985 by the Turkish company «Kent Gida». It is containing the inserts featured the images of various automobiles and motorcycles. Many kids collected those inserts. There were over 1,600 of different pictures in those inserts.
«Love Is…» is the gum produced by another Turkish company «Dandy Sakiz». It is also containing an inserts featuring the images from «Love Is…» comics with various determinations of what love is. Like «Love Is… helping a child to feel wanted». There is also always a double taste which is symbolize the the love of two. Popular in Russia since the early 90’s.
«Mamba» is a chewing candies produced by the German company «August Storck» since 1953. But to Russian market came only in 1990’s.
Zuko and Yupi are an instant fruit-flavored drink from Chile. It is a power to mix with water and getting a juice-like drink.
Dr.Pepper is an American Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904. But to Russia came only 90 years later.
Magic World Amusement Park in Ufa. Real Russia
Experience in the Magic World Amusement Park in Ufa, Russia.
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Meet Big Bag In The United States. Real Russia
Big Bag is an award-winning tv show in Russia. An acoustic journey produced by the friends of Real Russia and my colleagues from BST (Bashkortostan Satellite Television) - the biggest regional television channel in the Republic Of Bashkortostan, Russia.
Ruslan Farshatov, the host of the Big Bag show, travel all over the World with a guitar and searching for unique places and SOUNDS! It's really the main thing to find and record some interesting and unique sounds in each concrete place.
Another fun thing in the show is that Ruslan trying to find the most popular local song, learn it and then sing in a crowded public area of the place. This way he's checking how much he can earn for a meal playing the most popular song in where he is.
At the 8th of April, 2015, Big Bag will come to film their show in the United States. They are looking for people in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Philadelphia and New York who can show them interesting and unique places and, of course, THE SOUNDS!
You will be filmed in the show and will get a gift from Bashkortostan, Russia - a pack of famous all over the World natural Bashkir Honey!
Here is the dates when Big Bag will be in the United States:
8-13 April - Los Angeles, CA
13-16 April - Las Vegas, NV
16 April - Philadephia, PN (only one day)
16-22 April - New York, NY
If you can meet the guys from Big Bag at those days in those cities - email us at realrussiablog@gmail.com
In March, 2013, Rustem Adnabaev and Ruslan Farshatov, the founders of Big Bag were the first ones in our city of Ufa, who invited Real Russia for a big interview in their other talk show.
Watch a fragment of Big Bag tv show dubbed in English here -
- Big Bag on YouTube.
MaturCar Carsharing. Real Russia
Test of MaturCar, the first carsharing company in Ufa, Russia.
MaturCar claims their carsharing is the best option for a short-term car rental and cheaper alternative to taxi. Something average between a public transportation and taxi.
In this video I have made a test of how much money I will pay for their carsharing against the price that Gett taxi requested for the same trip.
It works through the application for iOs and Android.
Per-minute charging:
1 rouble (~$0,2)/min. - awaiting time
5 roubles (~$0,10)/min. - driving time.
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অভিবাসীদের কাগজপত্র না থাকলেও ফিলাডেলফিয়ায় স্বাগত
সাবেক মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট বারাক ওবামার উপদেষ্টা ও ফিলাডেলফিয়া নগরের ডেপুটি মেয়র নীনা আহমেদ বলেছেন, যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের এ কঠিন সময়েও ফিলাডেলফিয়া নগরে সবাইকে স্বাগত। যাদের অভিবাসী হিসেবে প্রয়োজনীয় কাগজপত্র নেই, তাদের অবৈধ অভিবাসী বলেন না নীনা আহমেদ।
নীনা আহমেদ প্রথম আলোকে বলেন, ফিলাডেলফিয়া নগরে কাগজপত্র না থাকা এসব অভিবাসীই কঠোর পরিশ্রম করছেন। বর্তমান প্রশাসন অভিবাসীদের নিয়ে ভিন্ন ভাবনা লালন করে। তিনি বলেন, নগরের সব সুযোগ-সুবিধা সবার জন্য সমানভাবে উন্মুক্ত।
শনিবার নিউজার্সির রটগার্টস ইউনিভার্সিটির কউক কলেজে কথা হয় বাংলাদেশি বংশোদ্ভূত মার্কিন এই রাজনীতিবিদের সঙ্গে। তিনি এসেছিলেন কম্পিউটার লিটারেসি প্রোগ্রাম (সিএলপি) নামের স্বদেশি পেশাজীবীদের একটি সংগঠনের বার্ষিক সভায় অতিথি বক্তা হিসেবে। এর ফাঁকেই কথা হয় প্রথম আলোর সঙ্গে।
সিএলপি সম্পর্কে বলতে গিয়ে নীনা আহমেদ বলেন, অনগ্রসরদের জন্য এ সংগঠনটির গৃহীত কর্মসূচি যুগান্তকারী। তিনি প্রথম আলোর মাধ্যমে এ সংগঠনের সহযোগিতায় সবাইকে এগিয়ে আসার আহ্বান জানান।
উল্লেখ্য, নীনা আহমেদ সাবেক মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট বারাক ওবামার উপদেষ্টা পরিষদে যোগ দেওয়ার পর প্রথম আলোর ক্রোড়পত্র ছুটির দিনে তাঁকে নিয়ে প্রচ্ছদ প্রতিবেদন করেছিল। সেখানে তিনি আমেরিকার মূলধারার রাজনীতিতে তাঁর এগিয়ে যাওয়ার গল্প বলেছিলেন।