Novorossiysk & Sochi
17-20th of March, 2010
The new film roll exposes to light and tires are flat... We are in the south of Russia.
We took a 38 hour train south from Moscow & thought there is no way it would snow down here... we were wrong.
Kirill Korobkov is not a musician, but he does like to dance.
Stas is my favorite human being! No one makes me laugh more than Stas!
Novorossiysk is no joke, don't mess with Russia!
Jolly side of Novorossiysk... by the way, it took us a week to pronounce 'Novorossiysk' correctly, try for yourself!
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Lenin took over the czarist Russia & his brother was a terrorist!
We had a good time in Novorossiysk, but we had to move on to Sochi!
We had a bunch of bags.
on the road.
Sochi is located at the very southern tip of Russia and the northern Caucasus. Only forty minutes away from
Abkhazia and very close to quite other disputed & dangerous Russian states like Dagestan, Chechnya, Balkaria
and North Ossetia.  
Locals are getting ready for the Olympics... they might have confused the winter with the summer Olympics.
Right by the Black Sea. Even though Novorossiysk and Sochi might be corrupt and sketchy in some ways, we still
had a really good time, the sights are beautiful and some really good spots!
Stas's likes old vehicles. He collects small collector cars, vans, buses, tanks... I love the Ladas the most!
I do have to apologize for the lack of skate photos, but we had no photographer on this trip, so I had to take the
roll as photographer aswell, so all the good skate photos will be saved for the Magazines.
We came a month to early, it was freezing!
I am sure you have heard of Sochi before. You remember the Winter Olympics in Vancouver this winter, well in 2014,
the Olympics will be held in Sochi... I am reeeeeally curious how this will turn out since corruption is a pretty big issue
over here. 327 Billion Roubles are needed for this event...
During Soviet times, experiments on monkeys was a secret Soviet plan to create a man-ape hybrid that would
become a Soviet superman and propel the Soviet Union ahead of the West! And I am not joking... Stalin really
thought this could work. Now monkeys are used for touristic purposes... It's inhumane, but i couldn't resist of
taking a photo of two monkeys.