We continue the walk from around the corner of Prospekt
Engels and Skobelevsky Prospekt.
The Uranus cinema is probably the
smallest cinema in the city.
A "Stalin" block of flats nearby.
Also a house for people to live in (and
people still live there). It has darkened with time, but is not prepared
to let younger forces take over.
It's on the corner of Yaroslavsky
Prospekt and Zabaikalskaya Street.
The address is Yaroslavsky Prospekt no. 63, if I'm not mistaken.
"Circus", a sculpture in a kindergarten.
The neat little plaque on the wall by the
sculpture.
A block of flats from the
post-Perestroika era, which hides in the dense flora around Prospekt
Engels.
"Modesty" :-)
The surname at the top of
this transformer box is not at all that of the artist, but belongs to
some official or other, who tried to become a deputy (local inhabitants
testify that old grandmothers went around stairwells with portraits of
him).
"Capital and country house"
(Small barns by a one-storey country cottage)
Prospekt Engels no. 92.
A neat little wooden cottage close to the cycle-track. The cottage
has been preserved only because...M.I. Kalinin stayed here in October
1917, and a meeting was held in his house, at which V.I. Lenin was
present, of which a memorial plaque bears witness.
Prospekt Engels.
At the foot of the
Poklonnaya Height.
One sees the new house beside the Ozerki metro station (it was built
a year or two ago).
The Baptist Church (Prayer-house of the
Evangelical Baptist Christians).
In Soviet times, the Baptists were
allotted a closed Orthodox church in Ozerki instead of an earlier
promised congregational house. The Baptists enlarged the church with a
contemporary addition, and now they are very upset that they are not
allowed to carry out large constructions because Ozerki is a listed
area.
Note that there are no crosses.
A monumental house (the clergyman's
house?) by the Baptist Church.
Closer...
A view of the Upper (First) lake in
Ozerki with the "Tarzan" mast above the beach.
Water sports.
Clouds in Ozerki. The white domes seem
especially grand above the water.
