A Shopping Trip in Russia

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Here’s another photo set from bad bad Russia. As a miserly procrastinator, I waited until my shoes were literally falling apart before I even thought about buying new ones. So finally, today, I did. This is what the Russian town of Mytishchi looks like on a typical sleepy Saturday morning.

Mythischi dates back to the 15th century and has a population of a little over 200,000 people. It’s a very typical Russian town, but there are some landmarks that stand out. Like this funky modern art monument, which is a reference to their aquaduct system dating back to 1804, allegedly the first to ever be constructed in Russia.

I do find the architecture interesting.

It was still fairly early, so not too many people outside yet.

A bus.

Here’s a typical shopping mall (not the one we went to today).

A new set of apartment buildings and a yard with young sapplings. And of course a playground for the kiddos.

A monument shaped like a traditional Russian samovar tea kettle.

Then finally, the shopping mall we visited for my shoe-buying expedition.

An electronics store that has been utterly devastated by Biden’s sanctions from hell.

Phones (stolen from Ukraine, no doubt).

A display of assault scooters. People who ride scooters are so stupid, there literally has to be a sign telling them to not ride it in the store.

Russian missiles (that can also do your laundry).

Iranian kamikaze drones.

No more Starbucks for miserable Russians, but Stars Coffee is open for business.

To quote Barrack Obama, cool clock Muhammad.

A cute (but expensive) stuffed animal.

The Bat Signal.

Another view of the miniature Eiffel Tower.

Birds in a pet store.

A store for anxious Russian women.

Furniture.

This little girl was very impressed by the table and chairs.

Oh, and I did finally find a pair of shoes I liked. I even got socks too. The shop was actually out of the shoes I wanted, so they were delivered to our home address a few hours later.

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6 thoughts on “A Shopping Trip in Russia”

  2. Hey, there is even a Zara in there!

    PS: glad to see that Russian military has a big stock of house hold appliances from where to fetch killing chips.

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  3. funny how it looks almost exactly like any of the 4,000,000 malls in my canadian city. also funny how the US has everything manufactured by china and never considers they might sell stuff to their direct neighbor whether it’s DC-approved or not. i do pity the poor russians who might not have the “privilege” of paying $3,000US for an iphone that needs to be replaced a months later when the cord changes.

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