We've had both Split and Iowa City as indoors correctly guessed before!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
Is that Erdogan in those bizarre wall photos?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 11:17 (three years ago) link
don’t think so
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
This shouldn't be too difficult but I'm failing so far. So it's some sort of museum exhibit for a mid-century leader/dictator, either Soviet or Middle-Eastern. Picture on the right at the back looks like it might be Lenin. On the glass cabinet on the right there is what looks like a map, I tried to fit it with any of the stans or maybe Mongolia, but it doesn't work. It most resembles Iran, but I don't see how an exhibit like this could fit in with Iran's history, so I'm stumped.
Actually no I don't think Lenin's in the mix there, all the pics on the right are the same man, an older balder version of the young man in the scarf. Keep thinking it might be Ataturk but no, he didn't make it to old age.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 27 May 2021 04:33 (three years ago) link
the bowing statuette, the scarf he's wearing in the central portrait (yeah, it's a cliche but) - is he a famous theater figure?
― StanM, Thursday, 27 May 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
big portrait of Odo from deep space nine.
i think the things in the cabinets are various gifts. (i took the bowing man to be japanese)
― koogs, Thursday, 27 May 2021 08:29 (three years ago) link
i was thinking theatre person too. this is a good one
― a (waterface), Thursday, 27 May 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
I am pretty sure that is Ennio Morricone
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 27 May 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
Looks like him from a distance, also a trumpet in one of the exhibiting cabinets
I can't imagine such a bizarrely chintzy tribute to the man tho, lacking film posters and/or statuettes, so I'm probably wrong
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:00 (three years ago) link
theatre or opera, with some of the costume attributes to the right
― StanM, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link
There's no way that room is Western European. It's got that Soviet or Soviet-influenced vibe.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
On the left, there are a series of certificates with an errant hot-air balloon as the logo, and it seems as if there is a statue of the same, as if this organization has honoured this individual repeatedly. I don't know what that logo is connected to.
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
It's an odd one. Definitely feels opera-related but not really grand enough for any of the major Soviet houses. It's not the Bakhrushin or Chaliapin museums. The central portrait looks contemporary, so possibly the current director of a company. The building in the picture on the left has an onion dome. I'm leaning towards somewhere like Simferopol or Sevastopol.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link
what about the main cabinet on the right? is the woman on the colour pic (or is it a painting?) the same as the one on the b/w pic in the smaller cabinet to the right of it? there's also what might be a photo of the actor (?) with a woman (the same one? his wife?) on the top shelf. plus a ceramic figurine in a yellow dress, and, perhaps more interestingly, what looks like a crown of sorts, or is it a traditional female head dress? - or is it something else altogether?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Zelda Zonk, where do you see that map?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
I suspect I might be imagining it at this stage but it definitely looks to me like the top shelf of the cabinet on the right has a women’s headdress nearest to camera and a Boris Godunov-style prop crown partly obscured by the reflection.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
xp second glass case from right, bottom shelf. May not be a map though
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
I thought it might be that one - I associated it with the comedy/tragedy twin masks
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
can anyone make out the script on the certificates on the left? is it Latin/Roman or something else?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
xp hmmmm... maybe you're right!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
it might just be wishful watching tho
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Again, I might be imagining it but I think the text of the framed certificate says диплом (diploma) but it is fuzzy.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
Think you're right. And in the third cabinet on the left there's a picture of what looks like a Byzantine cathedral or maybe mosque just to narrow this down...not at all.
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
oh re-reading properly and ShariVari caught that already
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
Leaning more towards Ashgabat now, though not with much to justify that.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
the building in the third cabinet on the left doesn't look like it has a dome to me? I get medieval castle ruin vibes but "ruins used as opera backdrops" doesn't narrow it down a lot either
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/MGgN9fp4/yx.jpg
and outside
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:39 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/85KJ8Gxq/yx.jpg
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
tram looks older/less round/bigger windows than the iconic Tatra models I've seen
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link
Barnaul
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link
ding ding ding! October square
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3554363,83.7692881,3a,75y,150.34h,95.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suSf2UHJIBCaG8Im9fNKBGQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link
well done! so who's the dude with the scarf?
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:15 (three years ago) link
no idea
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:22 (three years ago) link
I think it's Valery Zolotukhin, but haven't found the photo yet
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:29 (three years ago) link
I think it is Valery also
That was pretty quick from the exterior, maybe I should have left it a while on the interior
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:34 (three years ago) link
It's in the Altai State Theatre for Children:
https://goo.gl/maps/oZq4W4eGTNG9M7fW9
No idea who the guy is but the building in the picture does have onion domes!
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:39 (three years ago) link
looks like a match with other photos of Valeri I've found
I'm not so into setting these so anyone else feel free to go ahead
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link
from Russian Wikipedia:“Since 2003, he was the artistic director of the State Youth Theater of Altai.”
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:53 (three years ago) link
there WAS a dome! I sit corrected
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 08:01 (three years ago) link
can’t find the portrait either, but he was most definitely a scarf guy!this still (from a play, I assume) matches the series of pics on the right wall:https://img.dni.ru/binaries/v2_photo/69859.jpg
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 08:08 (three years ago) link
glad this was sorted right out of the trolley gate, the research would have ruined my working day
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 08:10 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/XYzVzYnS/za.jpg
Hopefully your work for the day is done
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link
Fleetwood, Lancashire, UK
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:34 (three years ago) link
third google image result for 'private school on the coast beach' :P
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:35 (three years ago) link
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uo6joEm.jpg
a different coast
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
googling Caribbean cruise ports...
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link
my first inkling was something like Dakar
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
Moose Factory, Ontario
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 28 May 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link