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izard ([personal profile] izard) wrote2017-08-01 10:28 am

Views from SSJ100

We were flying a brand new SSJ100 from Moscowo to Nizhny and back, and windows were very clear.

Approach to Sheremetievo :


Sheremetievo close-up:

I had an impression that Moscow City is bigger than this tiny bunch of mini-skyscrapers.

Also smog is very much visible, maybe not Beijing level, but still.

I guess that is [fancy?] Moscow new suburbs:


Fast forward to Nizhny Novgorod. Here is Dzershinsk industrial area (some say one of most polluted placed in Russia)


And this is Sokol airfield, with some jet fighters.

I guess this picture would have triggered me some troubles 20 years ago, but now we have google maps.

Ships parking lot in Oka river:


Oka river and Dzerzhinsk: