Sunday, May 27, 2012

Strolling through Russia

Yandex apparently re-enabled their "panorama" view, which is much like Google's street view.  It's pretty neat, in that you can see a street-level view of most streets in Russia's major cities--those include St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Arkhangelsk (but not, unfortunately, Kotlas).  The pictures are pretty crisp; you can pan around 360 degrees by dragging your cursor (as in Google's street view), "walk" down the street using the arrows, and zoom in using the telescope in the upper left, getting a high level of detail.

Here's a few panorama images of the places we were:

St. Petersburg
Right outside the Brothers Karamazov Hotel where we stayed in St. Petersburg
Moma Roma Restaurant, (Italian/Russian/pizza joint) where we ate a few times
Tres Amigos, the South American-Mexican restaurant with the American pop music-ballet floor show
The end of the Gostiny Dvor shopping plaza on Nevsky Prospect
The Hermitage, looking across Palace Square
The Russian Museum
The iconic Church on Spilled Blood
St. Isaac's Cathedral (You can stroll inside the cathedral in Panorama view--pretty cool)

Moscow
The Hotel Peking where we stayed in Moscow
The 24-hour supermarket around the corner from the hotel
Patriarch's Ponds (a park)
Heading down Tverskaya Ulitsa toward Red Square
The corner of the Kremlin
Entering Red Square (this one's kind of fun to "stroll" along)
In the middle of Red Square (St' Basil's Cathedral is in the distance; Lenin's tomb is to the right if you spin)
The New Tratyakov Gallery. We walked here in the rain.

Arkhangelsk
Pur Navolok Hotel where we stayed in Arkhangelsk
Bobroff Restaurant
Central square with the statue of Lenin
Regional Court where we petitioned for parental rights
Dom Knega (book house)
Chumbarova-Luchinskogo Street with its wooden buildings
Supermarket

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