My Travel Through Russia

Brief Introduction: I had gotten interested in Russian culture in 2009, although it was not until 2014 when I had begun to consider acting on this. By the end of 2015, I had already started research for my story and decided to start learning the language. It had been recommended to me to go to visit. I originally went in October 2017, and returned for the summer of 2018 and September and October 2019.

Things without links are in progress.

The photo albums are here. My dad has been filtering, cropping, and enhancing them. The photos in the journal are not the same as the ones on the photo site, however.

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October 2017, St. Petersburg -- I was in St. Petersburg from 1 October 2017 to 29 October 2017. I had decided to spend the month as part of a Russian-language immersion program.

Summer 2018, General -- I returned to Russia for the summer of 2018 as I had time between positions and didn't want to return to North America before I needed to.

Summer 2018, Trains

May 2018, St Petersburg -- I returned to the immersion program from 6 May 2018 to 26 May 2018. I have for this a Russian version and an English version. They are not translations of each other, but instead serve different purposes. The Russian version is in progress and in need of editing.

May 2018, Valday -- I was at a conference in Dom Otdikha Valday in the village of Roshchino, near Valday from 26 May to 2 June.

June 2018, Moscow -- I was in Moscow from 2 June to 9 June. I had not intended to visit Moscow, but wanted to give talks at universities there.

June 2018, Novosibirsk -- I was in Novosibirsk from 11 June to 20 June. I stayed with a family, but was on my own during the day.

June 2018, Yakutsk -- I was in Yakutsk from 21 June to 30 June. I had wanted to visit to see the city of my story, and had chosen to go over the summer solstice festival -- Yhyakh Tuymaady. 

July 2018, Buguldeyka -- A little village on Lake Baikal, I stayed there on a farm for 10 days.

July 2018, Bolshie Koty -- I was at a physics school at this village on Lake Baikal.

July 2018, Irkutsk -- Irkutsk is the city near Lake Baikal, and therefore it was required to go through there to get to the villages around the lake.

July 2018, Moscow

August 2018, Dubna

September 2019, CCI Trip -- I went to three cities, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Sergiev Posad as part of a 50 person group of Americans for an anti-nuclear / anti-war "information gathering" trip. Links to my political commentary are currently hidden at the bottom of this page.

Fall 2019, Dubna -- I stayed in Dubna for over 5 weeks and worked at JINR during this time.

General Impressions of Russia

Longer Summary of My Interest