Comments by "SomewhereInRussia" (@SomewhereInRussia) on "Sam's Russian Adventures" channel.

  1. You may not like salted lard in everyday life. But when you freeze during an autumn forest hike, you will be happy with sandwiches made of rye bread, salted lard and onion rings with hot black sweet tea.
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  2. ​​ @SamsRussianAdventures  In Russia you can legally film in any public place. Any prohibitions are illegal unless you are filming some special places like border checkpoints.
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  3. Money?! He's been in captivity for 20 years and is filming these videos under threat of execution, can't you see it? 🙂
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  4. Today you visited a gardening community with real dachas, i.e. summer houses. The houses are small, because the bathroom is usually outside the house. The kitchen can also be in a separate building. Some houses are converted for year-round living.
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  5. There is a similar spa center in Yekaterinburg, only on the 54th floor of a skyscraper. It is called BathHouse54. С лёгким паром!
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  6. Your license plates have a number indicating the region in which they were issued. If you change your region of residence, you need to change your license plates, just like in the US when moving from state to state.
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  7.  @ShenandoahShelty  No you can't apply lard (salo) to your sandwich, like you would spread soft butter. You can slice it like salami.
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  8. Suzdal is not a village, but a thousand-year-old town.
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  9. On a pole across the road.
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  10. Он большой мальчик. 😊
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  11.  @SamsRussianAdventures  Сэм, это же Россия! Тут нет ничего запрещённого. Если тебе отказывают в съёмке, включи свои soft skills и за 5 минут объясни, какая прекрасная у них церковь и как твоим зарубежным зрителям важно её увидеть ради мира во всём мире. 🙂
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  12. Previously, in the USSR, the state would transfer a large plot of land to your employer (factory, enterprise). The employer would create a gardening association, and employees could receive a plot of land of 600-1200 sq. m. for free. Now such plots are sold on the real estate market as private property.
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  13. Sam lives in the center of the East European Plain. 1.5 thousand kilometers to the south of him are the Caucasus Mountains with the highest mountain in Europe, Elbrus, at 5642 meters.
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  14. The kick-sharing season opened in St. Petersburg today. You can rent a Woosh electric scooter for 60 minutes for 455 rubles during 7 days, it's much more fun and your pants will be dry. 👌
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  15. Why are you still there? Waiting for a miracle?
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  16. Literally: Pork-flavored stew. Probably some kind of jelly that tastes like pork stew. Real pork stew costs 5 times more.
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  17. Yes, there are federal laws and regional laws. But the differences between regions are not very big. Each region has its own budget, for example, for schools, hospitals, roads, transport and public amenities. Only Chechnya has relative independence, but you better not think about it.
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  18. Did you buy brown buckwheat? In Russia, buckwheat is steamed and brown. In the West, raw green buckwheat is sold.
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  19. This ramp is not suitable for a wheelchair. But it is suitable for a baby carriage or a bicycle.
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  20. Чем тебя обидела Аленка?
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  21. Sprats in Russia are small smoked fish without heads, in a tin with oil.
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  22. Pipes on the surface are cheaper to install, they rust less and are easy to control for gas theft.
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  23. Russia produces and exports food, Norway does not. Except fish, but some Norwegian fish is also from Russia.
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  24. Go where are you treated best. © Andrew Henderson, Nomad capitalist
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  25. In Soviet times, you could see a rainbow in kindergartens as a symbol of carefree childhood, nature and summer. Since then, perverts have stolen the rainbow from children.
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  26. Kholodets is a chilled meat soup. Strange Westerners don't like kholodets, but they do like fruit jelly, which is the same thing with added fruit.
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  27. This is a newly built settlement. People have been building their houses for several years and gradually arranging their lives. They hade to make many expensive buildings: a house, a garage, a barn, a well, a septic tank, a fence, a gate. They need to install electricity, gas, street lighting, and pave the street. I think in 5-10 years the large construction projects will be finished and then there will be no construction waste and the streets will be put in order.
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  28. "Domiks". Our cat has his own domik at the dacha.
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  29. Nobody there really understands the meaning of these songs. They listen to this music as funny birds chirping.
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  30. Hi Sam! Get yourself a cat, or better yet, a couple of cats and a dog. You'll never be bored and you'll always have exciting content for YouTube.
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  31. Locals not only fish, but also pick mushrooms in the forest.
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  32. Many prices are per 100 grams, for example biscuits and candies.
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  33. ​ @SamsRussianAdventures Wow, this is a real beast. You need to have a protective helmet and probably a license. Kick-sharing scooters can reach a maximum speed of 20 km/h in St. Petersburg.
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  34. Если такой магазин существует, значит там кто-то покупает и все эти товары будут распроданы. Я вообще удивлен, что в небольшом городе Владимир с населением 350.000 есть такие большие магазины. Значит там дела идут неплохо.
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  35. Natural gas is non-toxic and very cheap to heat houses in Russia. It is great if you have a gas pipe on your property. You can not bring gas into the house and install a gas boiler outside the house. All these houses are brick, it is very difficult to burn them, unlike Californian cardboard houses.
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  36. ​ @ShenandoahShelty  Yes, lard is similar to bacon, no heating is required.
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  37. There are no trespassing laws in Russia. You can walk freely on someone else's land, unless there is a fence.
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  38. From modern septic tanks or better yet, bio-treatment stations, almost clean water flows into the surface soil. And a well for drinking water can be 35 meters deep and many times deeper. It is also recommended to filter and boil the water.
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  39. A friend of mine in Russia inherited some old paper pounds sterling. And now he has a big problem of what to do with these notes. It can only be exchanged in Britain, but it is very difficult for Russians to get a visa there.
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  40. Sam, you have the wrong attitude. You are trying to solve a problem the hard way, when it would be better to solve it the soft way. Talk to the seller. Be polite. Tell her what a wonderful store it is, how Westerners are interested in looking at her sausage, potatoes and herself. Tell her that the store next door has already received free global advertising from you, and she is in vain refusing. If that doesn't help, come another day when there is a different seller and do the same. And one more piece of advice: small cameras are sometimes considered spy cameras in Russia and for buying and owning such a camera you can go to jail. I mean, for example, pen cameras. You know what times these are. Don't try to play spy. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  41. ​ @SamsRussianAdventures  Mosquito traps are effective. For example, a propane Mosquito magnet. If you don't mind spending $1000. We have almost no mosquitoes in St. Petersburg.
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  42. They have natural gas, it is much cheaper, more convenient and safer for heating.
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  43. My father once fell into an open manhole in Leningrad.
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  44. @ Because they use little credit, more often use cash and do or organize some work themselves. Few have enough cash to build everything at once. My friend bought a plot of land in a new village and paid for the land for 4 years. But he doesn't have the money to build a house. So for now there is a forest growing on his plot. If he has money in 5 years, he will start building a house, but many houses there will have been built long ago.
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  45. Creosote is poisonous, has a strong smell and is used in Russia only for impregnating railroad ties and poles. Other substances are used for bioprotection of wooden houses.
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  46. It is dangerous to work with hemp in Russia because of anti-drug laws. Although hundreds of years ago Russia was a major exporter of hemp. You can build a house from arbolite - blocks of concrete and wood chips.
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  47. Leningrad and many of its streets were renamed back in the first year after the collapse of the USSR. Some of the names remained because no one cares. Whether it's called Marx, Gaddafi or Pol Pot Street, no one cares.
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  48. Yes, it is possible. Google for Russian Shared Values Visa. You can buy plane tickets on the Aviasales website or enter Russia on foot via Narva, Estonia.
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  49. When I walk through such villages, I whistle, bark or meow to tease the local dogs. Try to have fun, not to be offended.
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  50.  @Unit8200-rl8ev  In Russia, government regulations only set the distance from property lines. That's it. All those brick houses in the video, built without building codes, are much stronger and more fire-resistant than any cardboard house in the US.
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