Punk Show and Scenery Pics

As promised, I have some photos for you from last night's punk rock show, followed by some sights-of-Vladimir pics taken this afternoon.

I don't know what the Dom Kulturi Molodyozh was originally used for, but I find it amusing beyond measure that there was a screaming-crazy-punk concert underneath the hammer and sickle. (It's hard to tell from this pic, but it's that red-seal-thing in between the lights at the top.

I'm afraid none of my pics are of the best quality, but on the black wall behind the singers, it says ПАНКИ В ГОРОДЕ, or "Punks in the City" with an anarchy symbol for the letter A. (The way Russians transliterate the word "punk" it's spelled "pank" in Cyrillic.)

You can't really tell what's going on here, but I thought it was a cool shot.

I'm hiding behind G looking scared.

Elena and Nika, our punk rock students

All last week the weather was incredible. As soon as Saturday rolled around, the weather turned to shit: just barely above freezing, no sun and freezing ice-rain. It stayed that way until Monday morning. Damn you evil weather gods! Anyhow, I took some time and went for a rather lengthy walk this afternoon. I went south from the AH on Letneperevozinskaya, until I came to the road that parallels the railway (yes, the trans-Siberian). This road changes names numerous times (it started out as Nikolo-Galeiskaya St, and became Karl Marx St, Workers St, and Railroad St, among others as I walked. This area is a fairly poor area, home to a lot of old wooden, traditional-style houses. And a couple of churches.

Some cats hanging out on their front porch

Svyato-Nikolo-Galeiskaya Church (built 1732)

Again, Svyato-Nikolo-Galeiskaya Church

Svyato-Nikolo-Galeiskaya Church as seen from a distance

Spires of the Khristo-Voznesenskaya Church,
as seen from the grounds of the Svyato-Nikolo-Galeiskaya Church

Mailboxes.

Nikolo-Galeiskaya St

I'm not sure what the name of the street was at this point...

The spires of the Old Believers' Uspensky Church, as seen from a distance


Old Believers' Uspensky Church (built 1644)