KRONSTADT part II: young stalkers at the Petrovskiy Dock. Slow Russian vlog for foreigners.

We left the restaurant. Basically… not bad, the food is delicious, but I think it’s too expensive for this kind of cuisine. It could be better. Well… out of 10, I would probably give it a seven. Now we are passing by the monument to Peter I. There is a very strong wind here, so I put on the hood. Dock Petrovsky, built in 1752. We will now try to get there. We noticed that there are very few people on the streets. Now we are trying to get to the Petrovsky dock.

01:38 - There is a monument: “Alexander Popov, the inventor of the radio”. By the way, it was in Kronstadt that radio was invented. Speaking of radio. If you have not listened to my podcast yet, I have two podcasts: one is Russian with Dasha, and the second is Russian Twist, which I host with Tom from London. Subscribe, listen. Look, I’m walking along a very interesting building. This building is abandoned, no one lives here, the windows are empty.

02:30 - I wonder what this building was for, who lived in it? Even the trees here are fallen. Let’s see. Some trash is lying around here. Apparently that was taken out of this building. I’ll show you now. Some wardrobes. I wonder if there is a piano anywhere. Look: different wardrobes, the armchair, this interesting sofa, it can be seen that it is old, and the chair too, it is old. Here’s another red chair. Creepy. I won’t go inside. Broken glass, in general, yes, the building looks a little sad. By the way, I have two videos on my channel: one of them is called “Abandoned Russia”.

03:40 - That is, we traveled to several places, to several abandoned estates. If you haven’t watched, take a look. You know, the funny thing is that when you live in a city, you are not a tourist of the city, you rarely see some sights. When you go to places you’ve never been to, you feel like a tourist, because you immediately buy a ticket for an excursion, you will immediately learn something new. So. We approached some strange structure. This is some kind of wall from the times of Peter the Great. Let’s go up there The “Abandoned Russia” chapter begins again. Oh, Nikita, please give me your hand. We want to see the Petrovsky dock.

04:50 - They say that it was made in the shortest possible time, was built, and the masonry has some interesting design. There’s a cat sitting in a tree. The cat doesn’t care about us! We met some guys who said that you can climb to the dock. We’ll see. Thanks. Look under your feet - there is barbed wire! Okay. Young stalkers. I really feel like in the Stalker movie. The guys are already on the other side. This is the temple. More precisely, the cathedral. I have already begun to doubt our trip. The guys here clearly know everything. You can see the ship. Wow! You can even climb there. No, we will not climb. They are not afraid of anything! Where are you going now? To the second floor. To the second floor? What’s in there? We haven’t been there. Guys, well, we probably won’t go further. OK then.

07:11 - Thank you, shall we go back the same way? Yes. Ok, thanks, bye! Bye. Yes. Got scared (rude) The adults got scared, as they say. We are simply afraid that the children will be released if they are caught, but the adults are most likely not, so we will go back. Yes. The local boys’ entertainment is to go to the old Petrovsky dock and look at the warehouses with various supplies. During the excursion, we were told that when there was a fascist occupation, that is, when Leningrad was closed from the entire world, it was Kronstadt that was most fortunate, because there were large supplies of food for the military, for sailors, and the local population was given these supplies as dry rations, and therefore they were lucky.

08:27 - They could receive some kind of additional food. Apparently, ships came here, the water level was lowered, and they were repaired here. Limestone, right? There - yes. Wall - limestone, facing - granite. We’ll go back. Yes, it’s a little offensive that we didn’t go with the guys. But on the other hand, we didn’t even have flashlights, and it’s not a fact that it all would have ended well. What if there is some kind of security, I don’t know.

09:26 - This is not the first time the boys go to such places, one of them had an ax with him. I asked why he needed an ax, he said: “Well, just in case.” All in all, it’s very funny. We are going back to the car. Now, if we see a monument to the stickleback fish, I will show it to you. This fish is known for the fact that during the blockade of Leningrad, during the Great Patriotic War, there was no food, as you know. This fish was considered just a trash fish, no one ever ate it, because it is very small in size, there is almost no protein in it , but if, for example, you catch this fish, make a paste out of it…

It was an additional 10:22 - source of energy, which the starving population was so lacking. In honor of this, in Kronstadt, in honor of the fact that the fish helped to survive the starving people, a small monument was erected in Kronstadt , now we are heading to it. I hope that it will not be dark yet when we get there, and you will see it. Well, friends. Thanks for watching this video. Subscribe to the channel. What else to say? Thank you for being with me. Have a great evening. Bye! .