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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
Zelda Zonk, where do you see that map?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:35 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
xp hmmmm... maybe you're right!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
it might just be wishful watching tho
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:38 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
oh re-reading properly and ShariVari caught that already
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:53 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/MGgN9fp4/yx.jpg
and outside
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:39 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/85KJ8Gxq/yx.jpg
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:42 (two 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 (two years ago) link
Barnaul
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:08 (two years ago) link
ding ding ding! October square
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:12 (two 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 (two years ago) link
well done! so who's the dude with the scarf?
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:15 (two years ago) link
no idea
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:22 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
there WAS a dome! I sit corrected
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 08:01 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
Fleetwood, Lancashire, UK
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:34 (two 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 (two years ago) link
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:42 (two 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 (two years ago) link
googling Caribbean cruise ports...
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 12:07 (two years ago) link
my first inkling was something like Dakar
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 12:33 (two years ago) link
Moose Factory, Ontario
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 28 May 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
Saint John's, Antigua
https://www.google.be/maps/@17.1157882,-61.8424233,3a,75y,178.41h,77.09t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNifKipnSrKyAGAfbazbAuNEe3NtSqdSx6w8fLH!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNifKipnSrKyAGAfbazbAuNEe3NtSqdSx6w8fLH%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya341.45566-ro0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
(mostly thanks to that enormous red roof on the left)
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
Well done.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/5yqfPvsY/tb.jpg
weekend city
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 6 June 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
First gut feeling without peering too closely: Germany, Austria or Czech Republic
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
I got nothing - other than it feels European indeed
― StanM, Sunday, 6 June 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
Gonna open the bidding with Vienna, but I'm not 100% convinced.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
does not feel like Czech Republic at all to me
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
buildings are all the same, looks like an upmarket council estate.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
... or a section of a city that had to be rebuilt quickly after being destroyed in a war?
― StanM, Sunday, 6 June 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
The buildings have chimneys, which, unless they're a postmodern flourish, means they couldn't be more recent than the 50s and are more likely to be older. They look a bit like the housing estates built in Vienna in the 1920s, and the river looks like it could be the Danube Canal, but I can't see any bridges over the Danube Canal that look like that steel thing in the background.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 7 June 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link