(click on the image to enlarge)
From this website (click on the links above the map to toggle between color, black-and-white and comparison regime).
[Via Ilya Birman's blog. He also has very cool interactive map of Chelyabinsk street-car/tram routes. Click within the square to magnify.]
Moscow subway is rather pretty, especially when compared to one in Brooklyn.
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That's a rather nice subway system.
reminds me of the Kharkov subway. Moscow's subway seems nicer, but it's the same style.
Kharkov has a subway? I didn't realize it was such a major city. I thought it was just a provincial backwater.
Kharkov is the second largest city in ukraine, after Kiev. Wikipedia has many articles about Kharkov's subway. I put in the last line in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsentralny_Rynok_(Kharkiv_Metro)
You'll have to excuse me, but I'm a sucker for Wikipedia articles about Subways. Seriously, I've spent many hours reading about the trains of many cities. Anyway, interesting point I just read, in order to get a metro line in the USSR you had to have a population of one million, and then Moscow would basically take care of things.
I once met a guy from Minsk who knew every single fact about every single subway system in the world. Or so he claimed. And so it seemed after talking to him. He was in law school together with a chossid from Borough Park who had traveled around Arabic countries of Middle East in secret and disguise.
TRS, did you know that Soviet trains had the widest... girth?.. or something (the distance between tracks).
You made a typo in "Dom Torhivli".
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gauge
Ahh. Is it indeed the widest gauge in the world? Also, who has the longest railroad system in the world? From what I remember, it's split up between US, Russia and Canada, but I don't remember how.
Also, do you know why there is a wide arch in the middle of Moscow–Vladivostok trans-Siberial railroad?
CA: The sign above the store said "dim trogovli." We pronounced it "dom," but I figured I'd use the Ukrainian pronunciation and call it "dim." Of course if I wanted to be consistent I would also need to do "trohovli." Whatever.
Did you follow the Wikipediepian's credo and fix it yourself?
And why is there an arch in the middle of Moscow–Vladivostok trans-Siberial railroad?
It's "torhovlya", not "trohovlya". I don't have a problem with "dim". You should read Bulgakov's White Guard. He makes a lot of fun of Ukrainian nationalism there.
— In Ukrainian, it's not "kot", it's "kit" ["cat"].
— Then how do you say "kit" ["whale" in Russian] in Ukrainian?
— They don't have whales in Ukraine. There is no word for it.
Because when they offered the Tsar to make a sketch of the railroad, he took a ruler and connected Moscow with Vladivostok. Or so Douglas Adams tells. Apparently, it's one his favorite facts in life (the other being that the brother of Bronte sisters died after leaning on mantelpiece).
Actually, the same joke is regarding Germans and English. I think it's in "Are You Being Served?"
— It says "sex haussen" on the box. What is it, sex knickers?
— Not seks but zeks. It means "six" in German.
— Then how do you say "sex" in German?
— You don't.
There being a ruler necessitated there being an arch?
Oh, I forgot the key detail: the ruler had a nick.
suddenly I understand so much more about how Russia works.
Hey, don't knock Russia. It's going to single-handedly save the world (according to the article, "using laws of physics" -- get that, all the miracle workers, we don't need you!).
Also, I believe it was Rebbe Rashab who said that after the Tsar has been shot, there is no longer a moshol for being bottul to a king.
Who's knocking Russia? Bittul is a great thing!
I sit corrected.
lol re. ukrainian and German
In Kharkov we used to joke the the FSU runs on "natchalnikism": Everything must be done with the authorization of the correct natachlnik. If the ruler-procuring natchalnik didn't notice that the ruler had a nick, then as far as everyone else is concerned, the ruler is straight.
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