Walking in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Moscow.
Here’s a longer version of March 22nd post.
War-time chronicle delivered through the street PA loudspeakers before the parade in Khotkovo. Voices, whistles from a souvenir tent nearby.
Recorded May 9th, 2010
Published May 10th, 2010.
There’s a popular song in Russia commemorating V-day referring to a “happy day with the tears in one’s eyes”. The dual nature of the day is unavoidable, this is the time when all the soldiers who died in the WWII are remembered with the triple salvo. Even if this year parade had no volleys, it was all the same – tears and laughter.
This is the story of 1941 fascist bombings of Abramtsevo train station and Khotkovo railway bridge not far from Sergiyev Posad. The man who tells the story is Olyeg Krivonogov, who was 12 then. His words are mixed with the cheerful parade tunes recorded in Khotkovo yesterday.
Recorded May 9th, 2010
Published May 10th, 2010.
Photo: overlooking Khotkovo from that very bridge – by www.kamensky.ru
For decades it was the only department store in and around Sergiyev Posad, and I’m not talking about the relatively small outlets. This shopping centre was really huge for a town like Khotkovo, which is about 20 minutes drive from Sergiyev Posad. Now it’s not that impressive as it used to be but it’s got its own name though – Lyu-’bee-miy – which is a sort of pun meaning beloved, and the one I like to visit. I walked across the 2nd floor of Lyubimiy one day – to discover nostalgia radio playing the music straight from the centre’s heyday, when Lyubimiy was the one and only. Early 1990s hits (obviously favoured by the ladies at the cash registers) were heard all across the sales area.
Recorded March 27th, 2010
Published May 3rd, 2010.
A loosely fixed stop sign tin plate producing creaky sound on the wind in the town of Peresvet, 70 km from Moscow.
Recorded February 17th, 2010
Published April 12th, 2010.
Moscow sightseeing bus tour invitation narrated through a loud-hailer to the left, religious service at the Kazan cathedral to the right. Recorded at the same time in Moscow’s Red square near Kremlin, the president’s residence.
Recorded March 21rd, 2010
Published April 12th, 2010.
Sound of an empty tram-car recorded close by the Apakov car shed in Shabolovka, Moscow.
Recorded March 21st, 2010
Published March 25th, 2010 (0.6 mb).
