Monday, January 31, 2005

Proletarskaya on Christmas Day

I've been meaning to post this for a while - a series of photos taken last December 25th in and around the Proletarskaya metro station:


The Zamboni-like machine used to polish the floors in metro stations here.


Incoming train.


This is one of my all-time favorite ad posters, even though it's total hypocrisy for the xenophobic Moscow authorities to put something like this up. The caption is a quotation from Aristotle - translated roughly from the Russian: "A city is the unity of dissimilar people" - although I've searched all manner of English-language Aristotle quotation sites and I can't find any equivalent.


Pigeons atop a metro ventilation shaft.


A Christmas-tree lot, Russian-style.

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