Comments by "SomewhereInRussia" (@SomewhereInRussia) on "Путешествие с Расселом" channel.

  1. 17:00 On the right on the pillar, you can see a barcode scanner. If you are in doubt about the price of an item, you can scan barcode and device will show you out the current price of the item.
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  2. Ideas for cheap dinner: 1. Frozen dumplings by weight (need to boil) + cucumber 2. Instant noodle Doshirak + sausage by weight 3. Some potatoes + sausage by weight 3. Pack of kefir + bread (old fashion meal)
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  3. ​ @MWENDA-vv5im  Drivers and couriers are, as a rule, migrants from Central Asia.
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  4. I have dozens of stores in St. Petersburg within a radius of a kilometer from my house. Some of them work 24/7. Every time I have to decide what store to choose. On the other hand, I live in old Soviet house: a kitchen of 5 square meters and no elevator. I can't put a big refrigerator, it's hard to take a lot of food to the fourth floor without an elevator and there is nowhere to store it.
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  5. Мне кажется дом построен лет 15 назад, судя по дизайну и потрепанности. Сейчас подъезды строят симпатичнее.
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  6. Привет сербам! С Новым 2024 годом! 🎉🎄🥂🍾🎂🎁
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  7. Did you know that you can ride a real narrow-gauge steam locomotive on the children's railway in St. Petersburg? It makes several trips a day in the summer on weekends from Kupchino to Pushkin. А вы знали, что на детской железной дороге в Санкт-Петербурге вы можете прокатиться на настоящем узкоколейном паровозе? Он совершает несколько рейсов в день летом по выходным дням из Купчино в Пушкин.
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  8. The Russian Orthodox Church is highly centralized and completely controlled by the state. But we have many other churches and religions here.
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  9.  @Blobocop  This soviet panel design was influenced by French architect Le Corbusier and German architects too. A lot of documentation was taken by the Soviets from Germany after WW2.
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  10. Never heard of Mayak stores before. It turned out that we have 2 such stores in St. Petersburg. Their stores of a smaller format "Svetofor" are better known. And in Europe, this chain operates under the Mere brand.
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  11. The egg is a living organism. It lives, breathes and accumulates toxins. The low temperature slows down these processes and allows the egg to stay fresh and tasty longer. The shelf life of eggs in Russia is 25 days at room temperature and 3 months at 0°C. The first 7 days eggs are considered dietary.
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  12. I think they just bought all the eggs and all the caviar in this store. In St. Petersburg, eggs and caviar are freely sold near my house. 10 chicken eggs cost $1-1.5, red caviar costs $3 per 100g.
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  13. Many malls in Russia have a large anchor hypermarket inside.
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  14. ​​ @loktaiextatus  Have you eaten Lay's "Red caviar" potato chips?
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  15. Did you know that Svetofor chain supermarkets have a bigger hypermarket version called Mayak? We have two of them in St.Petersburg.
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  16.  @NicolasValentinScotland  Dude, you're delusional. Look at the checkout to see if people come out with empty trolleys.
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  17.  @NicolasValentinScotland  For 2022, the official profit of the Globus company in Russia is 4 billion rubles ($44 million), revenue for 2022 is 136 billion rubles ($1.5 billion).
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  18. Smoked fish is delicious. I opened the website of the Moscow Globus hypermarket, the salted and smoked fish section, and found 233 different items.
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  19. Small transparent plastic bags, for example for vegetables, can be taken for free. Large bags for 7-10 kg of goods can be purchased at the checkout for ≈5 cents.
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  20. 2:30 - I bet this Coca-Cola was made in Uzbekistan.
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  21. Soviet Champagne is not so popular now. It was a common brand for all Soviet wineries and it continued into the 1990s. Now there are more Russian champagnes, but each company has its own brand, for example Abrau Durso or Derbentskoe. Soviet champagne is now difficult to find.
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  22.  @ИванПетров-с3т  Это какой-то лютый треш. Может, социальное жильё? Архитектору надо руки оборвать. У нас в Мурино просторные красивые холлы на уровне земли, часто сквозные. См. например ЖК Новые горизонты. И домофоны из нержавейки, а не это облезлое поделие.
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  23.  @TravellingwithRussell  Есть даже такая песня группы Чайф "Бутылка кефира, полбатона"
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  24. Welcome! Here in St. Petersburg we have the same distance to Moscow and Stockholm.
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  25.  @capitainebonhomme1609  There are different cities in Russia with different winter climates: from -60 Celsius in Yakutsk to +15 Celsius in Sochi.
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  26.  @vknmail  Any fresh eggs within 1 week are dietary. :-)
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  27. Welcome to the shoebox (business class!!!)
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  28. Do you need a mortgage to buy a $40,000 apartment?
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  29. 4:30 - Danish Expat promoting cheap 365 private brand. Looks very weird! We considering 365 brand as cheapest of the cheap. :-) 11:00 - Clarified Butter, melted at factory. Not so popular but someone buy it.
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  30. В1 itself means "Первый выбор" (First choice). This is a discount division of the Magnit chain of stores.
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  31. My mother in St. Petersburg has a favorite coffee mug with a red Dalecarlian horse, which I brought from Stockholm. And Julbock too.
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  32.  @ИванПетров-с3т  Не знаю как у вас, но у нас социальное жильё ещё как есть. " КИО принял в городскую собственность социальное жилье в ЖК «Новая Охта» для ветеранов ВОВ и иных льготных категорий граждан". У Рассела 2 видео с 2 разными домофонами и оба домофона страшные облезлые. Я много где в Питере был не припомню таких облезлых домофонов и таких странно спроектированных подъездов.
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  33.  @TravellingwithRussell  Old Soviet apartments can have gas stoves and even gas water heaters. You can spot these houses by the yellow gas pipes on the outer walls.
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  34. The stronger your door, the better you sleep. :-)
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  35.  @NicolasValentinScotland  LOL :-) Then who are these products sold to?
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  36.  @alexanderchepak2009  The egg is a single-celled organism.
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  37. Also famous place is Pyshechnaya in St. Petersburg. Address is Bolshaya Konyushennaya St., 25, St. Petersburg.
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  38.  @pat-2024  diversity?! Too dangerous, thank you!
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  39. Look at this house. Imagine if you need to buy 5 kilograms of ice cream and take it up to the 15th floor to your apartment? Perhaps you will buy 5 kg of potatoes or sugar. But ice cream? For what? Tomorrow you will pass here again and buy a different type of ice cream. After school, your children can also buy themselves a portion of ice cream and immediately have fun eating with friends.
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  40. ​ @janburn007  Of course there is an elevator to the 15th floor. But there are no elevators in Soviet five-story buildings. I live on the 4th floor of a 5-story building without an elevator. I have 6 sq.m. kitchen, I have a small refrigerator. But I have 10 supermarkets and food stores within a 500m radius from my house. Why should I store 5kg of ice cream at home? I can buy it near my house at any time, even on holidays at night. Children can also buy themselves ice cream when they go home from school. That's why I keep a maximum of 400 grams of ice cream at home. It's not so popular here to make ice cream cakes at home. I think ice cream is more of an impulse buy. If you want ice cream, you buy and eat it.
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  41. Suburbs like those in the US are not very common in Russia. Something similar can be seen in expensive "cottage settlements" (gated communities). Usually people in Russia live outside the cities in villages, settlements and garden communities. They have a local school, a medical center, some stores, a bus and train stop. Usual land lot is 600-1200 sq.meters. Double garages are not common but you can build whatever you want.
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  42. Have you eaten "Lay's red caviar" potato chips?
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  43.  @K2teknik.  It depends on my income and the value of my previous property.
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  44. Apparently the house was built before the mass appearance of automatic washing machines. Therefore, the bathroom is not designed for installation of a washing machine and is now quite cramped. To fit everything, they installed a narrow washing machine with vertical loading and a small sink.
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  45. I prefer the Lenta store to Okay. You can always ask for a loyalty card from another customer at the checkout.
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  46. Yes, of course. You can see self checkout area at 14:20.
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  47. There are no Globus stores in St.Petersburg, but Auchan, Metro, O'key, Lenta hypermarkets are near the same.
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  48. 😂😂😂
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  49. There is at least 2 different Mishka candies: "Mishka kosolapy" and "Mishka na Severe". You can see Mishka kosolapy candies by weight at 10:46 and a packed ones at 10:50.
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  50. Not everyone in the Soviet Union received a free apartment. People have been waiting for this for decades. Some like my family had to pay a lot of money for a "cooperative apartment".
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  51. Usually only that small refrigerator with expensive caviar is locked, but here even it is open. Perhaps due to cashier nearby. There are almost no Africans in Russia, so there is no smash and dash culture.
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  52. Yes, you can see it at 19:05. Bottles and cans Мистер Лис (Mister Fox).
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  53.  @павелшубунов  С чего это? Кто хочет - все попадают.
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  54.  @павелшубунов  в очень неудачное время там были. Я очередей до Невского никогда не видел. Когда хотел, тогда и кушал. Максимум несколько человек на улице, но внутри 2 кассы. Можно взять в пакете на вынос. Попробуйте зайти перед закрытием в 19:30 или в будний день утром.
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  55. The apartments in New York are older, smaller, more expensive, without a washing machine and with a rotten wooden water tank on the roof. lol
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  56. In the USSR, land for a dacha was usually received for free from the employer (600-1200 sq.m.). Then everyone paid to build themselves a summer house, a fence, a well, a barn and so on.
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  57.  @jsmythib  Today anyone can buy land for money.
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  58.  @AntonNidhoggr  Яйца Роскар мега экстра СВ коричневые 10шт 139 руб в Перекрёстке
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  59. Yep. It can seem to be cozy and cheap today. But! Back then they waited for decades to get their free apartment. They even waited for decades to get a phone line. Cars were rare and overpriced. And so on.
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  60. Not everyone in the Soviet Union received a free home. People have been waiting for this for decades. Some like my family had to pay a lot of money for a "cooperative apartment".
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  61. Chizhik is a low-budget chain owned by X5 retail group. So this is Pyaterochka but for the budget conscious.
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  62.  @АнастасияПопова-ю2ш2ш  а про семишагофф слышали?
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  63.  @TravellingwithRussell  Oh yes. 🙂 Just wanted to say that this is the same chain.
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  64.  @Jigurdinec  Единая сеть именно Светофоров и Маяков. И в Европе они есть под другим названием.
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  65. There are no restrictions. I prefer small baskets, I shop smaller but more often. And I try not to overeat.
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  66. There are no locks on the interior doors. Only the bathroom and toilet can be locked from the inside.
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  67.  @TravellingwithRussell  Egg price depends on its size. С0 (extra) are biggest eggs, С1 are medium, С2 are small ones. I prefer big С0 fresh eggs (made not earlier than a week ago.)
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  68. Owner means owner. The owner of this particular apartment received the right to live here under the communists in the 1970s (cheap social rent of a state apartment). In the 1990s, the owner received the right to privatize it for free to become the real owner. Now it is his property. He can live here as long as he wants, renovate, rent out, sell, donate, bequeath. Utilities are ~$70/month, property tax is ~$50/year. That's all he have to pay.
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  69. Recently, it was possible to pack pickles yourself, but this was prohibited by the government. Now only a store employee can pack pickles.
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  70. Семишагофф бывают очень разные по своему качеству. В квартале от нас отличный Семишагофф, чистый и опрятный. И очень дешёвый. Мама там недавно купила рыбу, довольна.
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  71. There is low crime here. No shoplifting, and elementary school kids go home from school on their own.
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  72. Some houses at that time were built from large precast concrete slabs, some from bricks. Brick houses are valued higher.
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  73. А что там такого в этом Архангельском? Даже Пятерочка такая себе.
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  74. Russell is a retail specialist. He has a professional interest in this area.
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  75. Yes, this is Khrushchevka. Perhaps this is a later version, Brezhnevka in honor of secretary Brezhnev. Because the earlier apartments were smaller and had 4 apartments on each level. The later apartments are more comfortable and larger and have 3 apartments on each level.
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  76. In Russia there is such a thing as a "Auchan bike" (Ашан байк). Means cheap low-quality bikes from Auchan and any other supermarkets.
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  77. A single person or even a couple usually does not need an oven. Nowadays it is popular to eat at fast food restaurants or order ready-made food home.
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  78. У меня рядом с домом 2 Магнита: один ущербный и второй очень даже неплохой.
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  79. These apartments were built for young and healthy people. The owner became older, but the house is still the same. It is not suitable for older people or people with disabilities.
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  80. 14:40 - I believe that absinth have flavor but no drug substances. Same as Coca-Cola. Don't expect to see drugs in a Russian shop.
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  81. Yes, this happens. But you can install an automatic valve on each radiator.
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