Astrakhan. Slums

63 photos. Taken from here.

1. Women, children, the faint-hearted, Russian chauvinists, non-Russian chauvinists and urge pregnant women not to continue viewing. For your own safety and peace of mind.

Astrakhan - an amazing city. It retains the details of the past. They just flow unnoticed at present.

Right in the center of the city has an extensive private residential area, each of which shack - a monument of architecture.
But time mercilessly eats everything, and the local people are so lost that he did not see that his house, his garden, his son and his brain pretty ponadkusan.

All that you see here - not the scenery the film of the Decembrists, not engravings from the life of the Astrakhan merchants century ago. Not even a penal colony for the lumpen element. And not even a village forgotten by God, where the postmen do not go.
It's the center of Astrakhan - rather big, original city on the Volga.





2. There, you can see the back of the turret? This Astrakhan Kremlin



3. There, you can see behind the supermarket? Nothing prevents the neighborhood



4. There, you can see the back of an elite residential area? Buy hut at the price of the villa in Spain and get a magnificent view in a gift



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8. The most amazing thing in this whole area - the first time ever not define - whether habitable house or abandoned. Chances are this or that kind be absolutely equal.



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10. This house is habitable. This garden under the windows



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12. This house is partially habitable. Where glazed - live where embossed box - no



13. Apartment even



14. And this is no longer



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24. When a family lived here for generations



25. Now the only light through the gaping hole and walks smelly wind



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28. From the house into two apartments absurd way survived only one wall



29. Do not look that leaky roof - live here



30. Once there was a house for two families. Then he fell out of the family and the neighborhood decided to finally issue radically and irrevocably - destroying the second part



31. Reed. Business card of the Caspian depression.
Handsome. It germinates in any valley. Never will forget that you're in the area below sea level.
As in the "Day of the Triffids" - he was the heir of the city. People leave. A reed remain.



32. Once it went to the tram. In the midst of desolation and off-road - an elegant lamppost.
Once at the station, he covered the motley crowd of the trailer is ringing.
Now it does not illuminate anything



33. Tram - an anachronism. Give a self-propelled carriage!



34. A more appropriate to the realities of



35. Tram rails were only at a crossroads, as the mention of the impermanence of all things



36. The rails are simply dropped. The road ended. The road passed.



37. Damn, how did it in Russian symbolic - the road ends abruptly underfoot
"Forgive me, none of us have not mastered the road. Yes, and it was my only weapon - the road ahead? »



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43. No, I do not want to catch up seamy side.
Strange, but the opposite happened - the first nightmarish experience Astrakhan, when scrutinizing the details began to like me more and more.
In Astrakhan, it is something that is not there in many other cities - many small details, the evidence of life. Just consider them difficult.



44. It is of Hispanic or Mediterranean type shutters, hand-sawn



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47. Former Persian Quarter



48. architectural monuments of the 17th century, in which the glazing
vpendyurit


49. And the unthinkable concentration of mosques close



50. Old-timers side by side with the settlers



51. If the cart does not pass through the narrow arch - it does not matter



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53. Regional Library, suddenly in the Muslim style, and suddenly Krupskaya



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56. In the yards are lost very interesting monuments - National farmstead, former commercial and residential suburb
It was the Armenian representative



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58. And this is the remains of the former luxury of the Embassy of Persia.
It is east type of structure on all sides with solid walls and a homely yard. Classic caravanserai.
The monument of architecture, it is easy to notice, despite all the protection in a poor state.
The most amusing - there are people. Yard residential.
With galleries - entrance to the apartment. Caravanserai communal.



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60. Two different Astrakhan often takes only a couple of curbs



61. And sometimes nothing separates

Here, as elsewhere, are born, grow and grow children, who then decide the fate of the country, vote, work, reaches the top, guided by one of aesthetics that matured from a young age.
What absorbed - the spirit of the country and will be fed.



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63. (End) Good luck, postrelyata and the country as a gift.



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