September 18, 2025
Having arrived at the start-point of our hiking-rafting adventure it was time we got this show on the road path. The mission for the day: climb up to the ridge we’ll be hiking along the top of. The weather was perfect, which meant the views up top promised to be simply magical… No need to hurry […]
September 16, 2025
All right folks – here we go: finally, my series of posts on our Altai summer vacation begins!… Now, as everyone knows only too well, backpacking across mountains and valleys is always a good idea. But to do so far away from civilization over five days (or even a week or two) isn’t just good, […]
September 12, 2025
Ladies and gents! Today’s topic is going to be unexpected and a little out of the ordinary… I know this won’t be of much interest to all my dear readers, but for some of you, it might bring on a wave of nostalgia – and maybe even a tear to a wrinkled (or, on the […]
September 11, 2025
Hi folks! Krasnoyarsk Krai industrial-site tour series of posts: done. Coming up – my Altai summer vacation series of posts… But in-between – here’s a long post that’s kept being put on the back-burner for this (perhaps its length) or that (I’m always so busy?!) reason, the title to which is introductorily self-explanatory. First – […]
September 10, 2025
Elephant in the room alert!… Did you notice how at the Nazarovsky open-pit mine we saw zero… coal? Like, we visited this massive coal-mining operation, but didn’t see a single chunk of the black stuff?! What?! Here’s the deal. The insanely massive mechanism that moves sandy rock from one spot to another was the main […]
September 5, 2025
Still back in July, still back in Krasnoyarsk Krai, next up on our tour of our dear heavy-industrial customers’ operations (after the Vostochny Gold Mine, the Boguchany Aluminum Smelting Plant, and the Boguchany Dam) – another two industrial giants – the Nazárovsky and Beryózovsky coal mines, which both belong to Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK). […]
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