#251 - RUSSIA - Jachenka

A Card from Tula. Russia is such a big Country I always have to google for the cities i'm getting cards from :)

So Tula seems to be in the South of Moskva about 180km. I bet thus is not much for russian citziens but for us Swiss - you know ;)

#250 - RUSSIA - dusi

A funny Card from dusi! I love Coffee and Tea a lot - so this card is really perfect for me!

249 - RUSSIA - murmurmur

Another Russian tag Card - this time from MurMurMur which has a absolute wonderful handwriting!

thank you so much for sharing that mailboxes with me! Also i've never seen those stamps before! thank you!

#248 - RUSSIA - dusi

It's time to reanimate that Blog - had some messages asking me why i'm not continue - so here we go :)

card is from the postal-shop in russia

#241 - RUSSIA - i-c-e-cream

valerie sent me this wonderful big black and white postcard with many stamps on it!

WOW!

The card shows Svyatoslav Roerich a famous painter in Russia

Svetoslav Roerich’s painting of his wife, ‘Mme Devika Rani Roerich’

Also the stamps are amazing! Thank you very much for this great big super hilarious card which broaden my horizon!

#240 - RUSSIA - startinka

This card was sent by startinka. It shows a watercolor painting which you can see in the great HErmitage a St.Petersburg. The painting itself shows the Interiour of the Pitti Palace in Florence.

#227 - RUSSIA - evgenia

This card i received today (28.10.2010) unfortunately the sender - evgenia - didn't wrote what we can see on it. Also i can't read the russian alphabet - so no chance to get more informations about the topic. :(

#226 - RUSSIA - tens

I'm really not sure under which country i should deposit this card? mmm...

the card was sent by tens, who is originally from Belarus. The card was written in Belarus on a meeting (the 3rd one in minsk), the stamp is also a belarusian one - BUT the card shows St. Petersburg which is in Russia.

Sad! I don't like that much cards which aren't from the country the stamp is from... BUT anyway! I like the card very much! It's full of nice words and quotes! not just the signatures from the postcrossers!

Thank you very much to Tens who sent me the card. And to Csigat_Snail, Sergei, KAteR, OksaFoksa and exmellie for your kind words!

The Kriukov Canal. The St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral of the Epiphany

The architecture of Naval St Nicolas Cathedral of the Epiphany combines baroque style with elements of traditional Russian architecture. The Cathedral, designed by architect S. Tchevakinsky in 1753-62 and sanctified in 1760, is one of the most beautiful churches in St Petersburg.

The Cathedral was named after St Nicolas Chudotvotetz (Wonder Worker). It became a kind of memorial in honor of the lost seamen.

Naval St Nicolas Cathedral is one of few cathedrals that were not closed in the Soviet period.

#217 - RUSSIA - pechenuga

Like #216 i received this card yesterday on my Russian Day! The card was sent by pechenuga and shows a metro station in Moscow too!

Prospekt Mira Metro Station (Kol'tsevaya Line / Circle) 1951

Prospekt Mira metro station is located on the Moscow Metro's Koltsayeva Line and was built in the 1950s. The design of the station has a botanical-agricultural theme, a patterned ceiling, and checkered floor tiles.

Opening date: 30.01.1952
The station was opened as a part of a line section between Kurskaya and Belorusskaya stations.

Station design: three-vaulted pylon-type deep-level station built to the standard project.

Station architects: V.Gelfreikh, М.Minkus
Design engineer: B.Prikot

   The theme of the station décor is the development of agriculture in the USSR. The pylons of the station hall are faced with light-coloured marble and adorned by bas-reliefs (sculptor G.Motovilov). The frieze represents a ceramic bas-relief in the shape of leaves and a vine. The track walls are faced with dark red marble and the floor is paved with black and grey granite.
   The passageway from the station to Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line was opened in 1958.
   The ground-level vestibule is located inside the Metrostroy multi-storey residential building on Prospekt Mira (architect A.Arkin). The front of the vestibule is adorned with sculptures and an original clock, and the interior features a smalt mosaic Mother of the World (artist A.Kuznetsov).

   Exit to: Prospect Mira

 Thank you very much for this additional Metro Card!

#216 - RUSSIA - SixthSense

Yesterday i had a Russia Day! 5 cards on one Day from the same Country.

This one is from the Switzerland tag and was sent by SixthSense!

Vestibule of the Metro Station Vorobiovy Gory 1959, 2002

Built into the lower level of a bridge, it is unique in the city and in the world. At 270 metres in length, the platform is the longest in the system as the station needed to be accessible from both sides of the river. It is also the highest station above ground level at 15 metres, though this is less remarkable since all but a handful of Metro stations are underground. Apart from its dimensions, Vorobyovy Gory is also notable in being the only Metro station with windows.

Opening date: 12.01.1959
The station was opened as a part of line section between Sportivnaya and Universitet.

Station architects: М.Bubnov, А.Markelov, М.Markovsky, А.Ryzhkov, B.Tkhor
Vestibule architects: N.Dyomchinsky, V.Alyoshina
Designers: О.Sergeev, V.Zharkova, I.Zhukov
Station architects (reconstruction): L.Borzenkov, А.Vigdorov, G.Moon, N.Rasstegnyaeva, N.Shumakov, N.Soldatova
Designers (reconstruction): N.Korneeva, Е.Meleshonkova, Е.Belyarova

   Being 284 m in length, the platform of the station is the longest in Moscow metro. The station was built to a unique project. The station is built into the lower level of a bridge that was erected in 1958 (engineers: V.Andreev, N.Rudomazin; architects: Yakovlev, A.Susorov). The 1179-metre long metro bridge was made of reinforced concrete.
   However, the station was closed for passengers on October 20, 1983 as the bridge was plagued by corrosion. From 1986 trains were rerouted to temporary bridges alongside and it was only 19 years later, on December 14, 2002 that the newly renovated station opened to the public again.
   The station has a modern design now. It is faced with white and green marble and the station walls are made of glass. The floor is finished with sandstone plates.

I love Metro Cards! Whenever i visit a big City i try to buy a book or a special Map from it's Metro: So far i have things from Tokyo and Praque. But were also in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Bruxelles, Barcelona and London. 

And the bridges stamps just fitting the metro Station on a Bridge! SUPER! Thank you very much!

#210 - RUSSIA - MaritD

 

Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery (Russian: Кирилло-Белозерский монастырь), loosely translated in English as the St. Cyril-Belozersk Monastery, used to be the largest monastery of Northern Russia. The monastery was dedicated to the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, for which cause it was sometimes referred to as the Dormition Monastery of St. Cyril. By the 20th century, the town of Kirillov had grown nearby.

#209 - RUSSIA - VencSv

 

Hornbeam ground Roots, Sochi National park

Where the foothills of the Great Caucasus Mountain Range cascade into the warm waters of the Black Sea lies one of Russia’s unique natural areas: nowhere else in the country are subtropical and high-mountain landscapes located so close to one another. This diversity of landscapes supports a similar diversity of plant and animal life that makes the region important not just for its aesthetic value, but for its role in conserving biodiversity. For the joint purposes of preserving and studying the natural riches of the region while making them more accessible to visitors, Sochinsky National Park — Russia’s first national park—was founded in 1983.

The park covers 1937.37 square kilometres within the Western Caucasus World Heritage Site.

#203 - RUSSIA - paultry

 

Look at this absolut gorgeous card Paultry send me via this tag! I'm totaly fascinated about it! The title is: Africa, Botswana, Aerolandscape. And was taken by Sergey Yastrzhembsky - the famous russian statesman. Its funny cause i just saw last week a documentation in culture TV Show on Arte about him. 

So if someone is living nearby - don't forget to see the exhibition!

 

I would going right know - but i can't even read the address  =D 

Not only the card is interesting and really one of my favorites! no also the stamps, paultry has used!

Top left: The Europa Issue, 2005 - yippieh! (pancake, doughcurl, caviar, samovar)

and on the bottom: The Europa Issue from 2001! (Island Boichol in the Baikallake)

Thank you so much, paultry for this absolut great combination of stamps and card!

#200 - RUSSIA - wetochka

This card i received some days ago (around the 5th of february 2010) - i know its a bit confusing, with the dates on the blogs post. But i have no chance to keep it up in other ways - so i've marked every card with a number. This one is number 200! Alone in this tag (i think there are more than 200 cause i've begun a little bit earlier but without labeling). The celebration card is from wetochka and shows a sunset in a resort :) no idea from which region in the large russia country this picture was taken... But it so romantic - thats enough ;)

#192 - RUSSIA - kaurry

 

This was one of my first favorites when i've joined postcrossing some years ago (3y. and 3 months) - and now i have it! juppieh! (see my favorites flickr site - page11! - added as favorite one year ago )

Its so beautiful! the star always reminds me of those paper stars from southern India. Unfortunately my parents didn't bought one for me - mummy said they were all not in a good condition - so if an indian postcrosser see this post: i'm open for a private trade!

Thanks a lot to Kaurry who sent me this SUPER card!

#186 - RUSSIA - victoricus

#175 - RUSSIA - jakuschka

 

Look at this fabolous card! i love elephants (http://swisstag.blogspot.com/2010/01/198-netherlands-sjoiis.html) 

thank you so much for this great blue card, where the elephant has fun to take a bath in the water.

The picture was taken by steve bloom (Indian elephant swimming underwater, seen from below, India) 

#164 - RUSSIA - syapa

Syapa sent me a wonderful singleview from Moscow - The Fountain of the Peoples Frienship. Really pompös - but beautiful. And the stamps! FANTASTIC! thank you so much!

#160 - RUSSIA - juliet

A Maxicard with a children's book illustration by russian poet Korney Chukovsky.

Thank you very much!

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корне́й Ива́нович Чуко́вский, 31 March NS 1882 - 28 October 1969) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His poems, Doctor Aybolit (Айболит), The Giant Roach (Тараканище), The Crocodile (Крокодил), and Wash'em'clean (Мойдодыр) have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children. He also was an influential literary critic and essayist.

#159 - RUSSIA - MariitD