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

Skorohod · Aug 23, 2021

I liked this hillsides near Novoturayevo and decided to visit it once more when weather is better.

View to Novoturayevo and railroad from high ground. When it's been build this railroad was part of Trans Siberian railroad route. Now it's "historical transsib", but still very busy with long and heavy freight trains:

Nice old bridge:

Nearest railroad station to Novoturayevo is Taldy-Bulak. White water tower is there from a steam engines era, but this classic soviet electric locomotive ВЛ-10 consumes only constant current at 3 kV rate:

Bunch of relatively new 2ЭС6 "Sinara" locomotives coupled together chugging itselfs to depot:

Long train with tankers and automobile carriers from distance:

And this train is with tankers only:

Two ЭП2К hauling passenger train:

Skorohod · Aug 23, 2021

But enough about trains. What about hillsides of Novoturayevo?

It's time to go up and explore!

X marks the spot:

Sun is low, and hills looks dark:

Here comes the sun!

Village and farm looks like toys from up here:

Cows sleeping on their feet:

Skorohod · Aug 23, 2021

Road down to village looks like fall:

Thanks to mighty regenerative brake i've descended safely in a relaxed manner. Setting sun brings some crazy colors:

Time to go home.

All means of transportation is welcomed here:

That's it for today! More photos of Bashkiria yet to come!

Skorohod · Oct 4, 2021

This is the last ride through Bashkiria of summer 2021. I've decided to visit a memorial site, where first high yield oil well was drilled back in the 1950's.

Local oil reservoir called "Shkapovo". The irony is Shkapovo is a very small settelment, where only 1 (one) man of Chuvash people and three Russians live (according to 2010 cenus). The real boost from this oil was given to Priyutovo settlement. But Priyutovo suffers from lack of status - despite it's scale it was never made a district center (which status was given either to very small Ermeeevo village or Belebey town nearby).

A small birch garden was planted here by veteran oilmen:

Skorohod · Oct 4, 2021

My next point of interest - large oil pre-tratment facility.

What a cool view from a windows of this little houses. Pastoral landscapes in one window and brutal industrial view in other - one can choose according to the mood:

Going up to a high bank of Karamalka creek:

Skorohod · Oct 4, 2021

What a nice view to a facility from there:

Lots of piping coming from under that riverbank:

That not a just hill, i's a reservoir for a crude oil!

Nothing gives out there is oil pumping through pipes just under my feet:

And what is that strange looking pond down hill?

Skorohod · Oct 4, 2021

That's a pond full of oil!

A distinctive line between organic life and organic death:

Skorohod · Oct 4, 2021

Then i've hit the dirt road, which runs on top of an embankment with some pipes inside:

There is a lot a hares and foxes running here and there, but they too quick for me and my camera:

Enlarge your shadow!

Skorohod · Oct 4, 2021

Sun is going down to sleep, and the road is going down to Meneuz river:

There is a string of small Chuvash villages in the Meneuz river valley:

Skorohod · Oct 4, 2021

Sunset is finally concluded. And what a beautiful colors for my last of a summer Bashkirian trips!

That's it for this week and for a beautiful Bashkirian summer...

ZeroEm · Oct 4, 2021

Completely enjoy your photos and a chance to have a look around the Moscow area. Looks like a nice area and lots to see. You take some really nice shots. Keep them coming, not tired after two years.

fechter · Oct 5, 2021

Nice. Thanks for posting. Soon it will all be covered with snow.

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

ZeroEm said:
Completely enjoy your photos and a chance to have a look around the Moscow area. Looks like a nice area and lots to see. You take some really nice shots. Keep them coming, not tired after two years.

Thank you! Will do!

fechter said:
Nice. Thanks for posting. Soon it will all be covered with snow.

Thanks! Yes, pretty soon, in the first weeks of november Bashkiria should be covered with first snow. I wonder when would be first snow in Moscow, it's hard to predict last decades

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

After a majestic trip to summer Bashkiria i will show you... a Sur-Ron in a autumn Bashkiria!

Here it is:

Here was a small village called Klucherovka (russian "kluch" can mean a key or a water spring). Only this small pond remains. This was a place for summer early morning fishing trips with my cousin. I'm not a fisherman myself, but i've mended bonfire and just enjoyed a company. Didn't go to Klucherovka pond this summer, i've thought it dried out or covered with duckweed. But no! Still nice here:

Didn't notice at first glance, but there was a two beautiful white swans:

And two young gray ones:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

It's only first half of september, but autumn colors showing prominently:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

As i've said before, there's a lot of springs and swamps dried out for the last decades. Here was a nice small waterfall, now it's not:

And this spring, which feeds a small creek with waterfall is still alive:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

A nice pine garden (yes, it is not a wild forest, it's artificial) with a lot's of a wild strawberry:

There was some little small rains these days, but i've really had a hard time finding some mud to try Sur-Ron in it. That miserable puddle is all i've found. Go figure! Dirt roads become so dry through the hot summer, they just absorbing any amount of water like a sponge:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

When i've ride with a hub motor, i've tried to avoid deep puddles or fords, but now with Sur-Ron i didn't restrain myself for some small river crossings:

I don't know, what this abandoned building was... some agricultural facility, i guess:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

A blast from the past! That rusty object is an old soviet stela intendet to greet people, who entered Bashkiria on trains from west border. Still has a Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic emblem on it:

Sur-Ron has a relatively small battery. 50 kilometers of riding the dirt roads through hills and ravines and that's it! Here is my predicament, i've reached only half of my path, but i've left with less than a half of battery charge:

That abandoned rusty transformer not helping at all:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

A little rock quarry:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

What i've liked in Sur-Ron - is how well built it is. With a light wheelsets it has ability to drive through any rough terrain with a uncanny degree of a comfort!

I see a nice hill:

And then i just ride uphill right through field:

That hill has a nice view:

That hill has a wild button mushrooms or a horse mushrooms. I've leave them there, although wild button mushrooms are tastier than its brothers from the shop shelf:

I've took a moment to respect and enjoy a view, a steppe smells, a wind and a silence and solitude:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

A small chapel on a hillside near Kozhaj-Maximovo village:

Hello, strange snowman:

Sun is down:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

And then came the Moon. And what a Moon that was!

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

Bashkirian autumn at night:

That's a republican tuberculosis clinic on outskirts of Priyutovo, that three storey brick buildings amongst little rural wooden houses always haunts my attention, especially at winter nights:

Skorohod · Oct 10, 2021

I'm finally home. So, what do you know about a range anxiety? Want to talk about it? 8)

Riding through a burdock in a wooly socks and crocs clogs has its disadvantages:

So, when i've hauling my e-moped in a car, i've needed to do some things before i've able to fit it inside:

Detach a top-box:

Then detach a mirrors and tilt nucular screen:

Still didn't fit:

Remove a front wheel:

Then compress front suspension:

There you go:

And that's a same story with Sur-Ron. You just compress front suspension:

And toss bike into car! That's it:

Yes, riding Sur-Ron i look like a giant on a donkey, there a small battery (for me), but it drives beautifully on a rough terrains, well built and so, so much easier to move around! Totally worth it!

Well... that's it for this week!

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

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