Eternal outskirts of Moscow and beyond (LOTS of pics!)

Skorohod · May 17, 2021

goatman said:
ive been waiting patiently for you next episode and am you hoping you havent gotten trapped in the perfect manhole or swallowed up by sewage sludge

I'm all right, just got trapped by perfect everyday routine and became swallowed by a common laziness 8)
But i've overcome and brought some new pics, so enjoy!

topspeed said:
Well....thanks for the trip to Moscow.

Some USSR systems still visible.

You've got me thinking, so i've forced myself into saddle and ride through vicinity of Moscow Southern River port, where tempest of renovation and gentrification is raging in full force!

Territory of a former Moscow city transport department maintenance site now is just a wasteland. New tramway depot is planned here:

Old WWII memorial and some blue spruces is only remains:

Heating plant of an old Moscow chlorine factory:

A little bridge over heating pipes on "a people's path" through industrial railroad:

Reservoirs of "Moscow-Azerbaijan vine factory". Yes, that's an actual thing!

Skorohod · May 17, 2021

A little swamp nearby industrial railroad to a Southern Port:

Ruins of an old concrete plant:

Administrative building of Pechatniki subway depot:

I'm standing on actual subway tunnel and looking on a vast impound car lot and Moscow-city skyscrapers in a distance:

Skorohod · May 17, 2021

A rare П-111 panel buildings:

That's a good thing - to have a dirt road with a puddles amidst a big modern city:

Skorohod · May 17, 2021

My bike, П-111 building and small blue sign of Russian post office:

My bike and ruins of an old cement elevator:

Elevator had a magnificent view from another bank of Moscow river on a sunrise, so it's a shame we lost it... But local muscovites covered with cement dust is happy to get rid of this "sightseeing":

Remaining (not for long, i'm afraid) buildings of Moscow Fat Plant, a former source of a tasty mayonnaise, margarine, ketchup and other culinary fats and souces:

Novoproletraskaya industrial railroad station and blooming lilac:

Skorohod · May 17, 2021

Nischenka river trying to survive yet another construction of a highway:

Actually, it's a pedestrian pathway. But only "pedestrians" this time was me on my moped and this rider on a horse:

Portal cranes of a Southern Port:

Panel buildings blocked together in a shape of a sail:

Chimneys of a decommissioned ТЭЦ ЗИЛ (electric-heating power plant of a Lihatchyov automobile plant):

That's all for this week!

marty · May 18, 2021

Skorohod said:
Reservoirs of "Moscow-Azerbaijan vine factory". Yes, that's an actual thing!

What is a vine factory? Is it a wine factory?

Skorohod · May 18, 2021

marty said:
What is a vine factory? Is it a wine factory?

Yes, wine, of course! I'm mistyped

Factory is a strong word, i guess, it's mostly bottling and labeling of beverages from Azerbaijan.

Skorohod · May 23, 2021

Trip to "new Moscow" - former territories of Moscow oblast. Villages, fields and small towns amidst forests and meadows, just like in 60's, when Moscow rapidly consumed lands within Moscow Circle Road. A new urbanistic frontier, sort of speak.

Moscow Circle Road on the right, fence of FIS (Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russia) on the left, and McDonalds sign just ahead:

One of checkpoints of FIS:

Old fields of some long forgotten moscow kolhoz:

A view to a FIS HQ buildings:

A surprise swamp on a creek crossing:

A little apple tree beside a swampy creek:

A fresh mud decorates my bike:

Farewell look to a "inside moscow circle road" Moscow, a Yasenevo district:

Skorohod · May 23, 2021

Onwards to the wilderness!

On the other side of wild forest i've saw a sunset over Kommunarka. It was a little settlement with pig farms merely a decade ago, now it's a brand new city district with wide roads, tall buildings and new subway stations:

New subway tunnel emerges on the earth surface:

Skorohod · May 23, 2021

Construction of a new subway station:

Skorohod · May 23, 2021

Another small river just being buried underground:

Skorohod · May 23, 2021

Sun is finally set:

That must be a very important tree:

Heat pipes in a space blankets:

Skorohod · May 23, 2021

A poisonous hogweed takes over the Moscow:

A farewell glance at Kommunarka:

Now my way is alongside mighty power towers, which bearing 500 thousand Volts of alternating current over my head:

Moon is tangled in a high-voltage wires:

On the other end of a forest clearing with power towers i saw another Moscow district, protruding through Moscow circle road to a oblast territory. Unlike "new moscow" districts, this one (called Butovo) was spilled from egg-shaped capital city long ago - in the 80's:

Skorohod · May 23, 2021

"A Butovo field" - abandoned decades ago, now it's another cesspool for a hogweed:

What a nice surprise - steaming vents of central heating tunnel. In a middle of a old feld:

A little pond between Butovo field and Butovo district:

You can always judge of a how interesting adventure was by a amount of new plants growing from dirt on your bike:

That's all for this week!

markz · May 23, 2021

Any stray dogs there?

ridethelightning · May 23, 2021

that hogweed has a beautiful flower but the seeds stink terribly. i discovered its really toxic so eradicated it from my garden.

Skorohod · May 24, 2021

markz said:
Any stray dogs there?

Fortunately, no! I don't know, what was done about them, but in the last years there little to none stray dogs in Moscow. Even in the desolate, abandoned places.

The only unpleasant encounter i had with stray dogs was about a year ago. Me and my friends was on foot, when we stumbled upon a little settlement of bums in the ravine. There was some nasty pack of stray dogs.

And, of course, there some amount of "semi-stray" dogs, no collar, no documents, no official owners, but they live on some private property and being fed from the hands of night guards. They rarely attack outside said territories, so i just ignore them.

ridethelightning said:
that hogweed has a beautiful flower but the seeds stink terribly. i discovered its really toxic so eradicated it from my garden.

Kill it with fire!

It's not only toxic (phototoxic to be exact), but hogweed is a very aggressive and strong weed. If you have cold temperatures where you live - hogweed can spawn its seeds everywhere around, prepare them through winter and seize some considerable territory for next spring. Then it's very hard to get rid of.

Hogweed become a local natural disaster in a Moscow region for a last decades, spreading like fire on the abandoned farm fields.

All above being said about mantegazzianum and sosnowskyi hogweed, and i don't know if yours is another species (maybe it's not that harmful at all).

Skorohod · Jun 10, 2021

Last week i've went to a rock concert. And not just in a viewer capacity, but i've participated as a vocalist in two songs!

Here it is (unfortunelly, embedded video timestamp doesent work, so click on the links or skip manually, my first song at 01:03:08 and second song at 01:13:16):

[youtube]q8r_ABo9EvY[/youtube]

That's all for this week

goatman · Jun 23, 2021

you need to get a Davey Crocket hat :bigthumb:

markz · Jun 24, 2021

You mean the Chalo hat.

goatman said:
you need to get a Davey Crocket hat

marty · Jun 25, 2021

Skorohod said:
Last week i've went to a rock concert. And not just in a viewer capacity, but i've participated as a vocalist in two songs!

Here it is (unfortunelly, embedded video timestamp doesent work, so click on the links or skip manually, my first song at 01:03:08 and second song at 01:13:16):

[youtube]q8r_ABo9EvY[/youtube]

That's all for this week

Good singing! Recommend that you take your left hand out of your pocket. Can you dance? Like this?
[youtube]TMm-NO7SKRw[/youtube]

Skorohod · Jul 12, 2021

goatman said:
you need to get a Davey Crocket hat

markz said:
You mean the Chalo hat.

Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy!

marty said:
Good singing! Recommend that you take your left hand out of your pocket. Can you dance? Like this?
[youtube]TMm-NO7SKRw[/youtube]

Oh, i not even wish i could move like that, i wish i can move at all! I'm completely inexperienced in showmanship, so i choose to restrain my hand in a pocket as a safer option

While rehearsals i've used that hand to hold a sheet with lyrics, and when show time arrived - i just didn't know, what to do with a free hand!

Skorohod · Jul 12, 2021

Today - not a Moscow at all! Today i'll show you south-west of Bashkiria, land of oil, thistle and not boring terrain!

First time i've gone to ride was in early evening. Mistake - temperatures too hot, light too hard, skies too burnout. But still, let's ride and see vicinity of oil workers settelment Приютово (Priyutovo, "priyut" means "shelter").

South-west Bashkiria terrain in the one picture - wast plateau with deeply embedded creeks and rivers and little patches of forest here and there:

Small creek dig it way through rocks:

Mallow and thistle:

Skorohod · Jul 12, 2021

Some slopes are steep enough to overheat my Nucular controller:

But when you through with slopes, you can ride those dirt roads through fields as far as eye can see:

Windows XP:

Pumpjacks are everywhere, you can't ride more than 5 kilometers without seeing one:

A little, but ferocious polecat attacked me in the field. I've seen hares, foxes, deers and a lot of birds, but they all were too fast for me to catch them with my camera. So, here is only a cute polecat: