A Street I Grew Up On Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text On of the days we took Luisa to the street where I grew up. We moved there when I was five and stayed there until I went to college. My parents moved to a more downtown location right after I graduated and I actually haven't been to the area since then. The area is what they call a "microrayon" in Russia (lit. "microregion"). Those are usually neighborhoods constructed around the same time and meant to be reasonably complete. (I.e., they design them with stores, schools, kindergartens.) Instead of being of having a grid of streets, they typically have scattered highrises and a tree of roads that branches until to the highrises. (It's a lot like Escondido Village at Stanford.) The microrayon's had numbers instead of names - ours was #64 if I remember correctly. The street, however, had a name - "[Patrice Lumumba](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba)". It has since been renamed - there was some excuse, but I think people largely just didn't like the African name. (A Patrice Lumumba street in a different city was renamed because the name of "the Latin American revolutionary" was found "hard to pronounce" - so, American's aren't the only geographically- and linguistically-challenged people on this planet.) <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_011_9876 Admiral Kuznetsov 74 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_010_3379 The entrance 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_015_1771 "Cremation of animals, 66-93-92" 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_050_6134 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_023_4545 Sitting on a fence like in good old days 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_018_5478 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_024_3243 A rack for drying clothes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_037_4501 The view from our former apartment 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_040_2989 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_042_2270 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_027_9270 Power transformer 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_029_2422 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_053_3547 Building detail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_030_9497 "Kindergarten #7" 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_031_4537 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_064_1849 2006-06-17-patrisa/20060617_057_9873 My school ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Friends who bought my parent's old appartment from them invited us in, so I also took some pictures of the ocean view that we enjoyed for over 10 years. (See the third row.) Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel
