Guess the City

from Russian Wikipedia:

“Since 2003, he was the artistic director of the State Youth Theater of Altai.”

there WAS a dome! I sit corrected

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

glad this was sorted right out of the trolley gate, the research would have ruined my working day

https://i.postimg.cc/XYzVzYnS/za.jpg

Hopefully your work for the day is done

Fleetwood, Lancashire, UK

third google image result for 'private school on the coast beach' :P

Hopefully your work for the day is done

https://i.imgur.com/uo6joEm.jpg

a different coast

googling Caribbean cruise ports...

my first inkling was something like Dakar

Moose Factory, Ontario

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

(mostly thanks to that enormous red roof on the left)

Well done.

https://i.postimg.cc/5yqfPvsY/tb.jpg

weekend city

First gut feeling without peering too closely: Germany, Austria or Czech Republic

I got nothing - other than it feels European indeed

Gonna open the bidding with Vienna, but I'm not 100% convinced.

does not feel like Czech Republic at all to me

buildings are all the same, looks like an upmarket council estate.

... or a section of a city that had to be rebuilt quickly after being destroyed in a war?

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.

Germany and Poland clearly have too many cities on rivers. Something has to be done about this imho.

I want to say Warsaw, but I don't think I'm correct.

maybe this is completely wrong to the right of that first lamp post there's a christmas decoration and then four white signs with their pole behind them - a bit further on, there's a maroon sign also on the left of the road... making me wonder: are we driving on the left here?

it doesn't feel like any of these countries though - so that's probably wrong. ( https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/list-of-left-driving-countries/ )

chimneys or not, don’t these housing blocks look quite new and modern (very much post-1950s), especially compared to the state of the asphalt road?

Protected bike lane makes me think Denmark.

are roads that badly-maintained in Denmark?

that's somewhere it snows (steep roofs) and i agree on the slightly rundown mitteleuropa vibe. maybe leipzig or dresden or something? but white buildings feel swedish?

I don't know about Denmark but here in New Jersey those roads would be considered in pretty nice condition.

I guess presence of pothole-patching also more evidence for a climate where it snows in winter.

is the link broken?

You know, I was just looking at some bridges in Uppsala, Sweden and while none were the right one, it didn't feel *that* impossible either. So I'm going North for a couple of tries.

Link is still there for me - though there were internet problems yesterday I think?

https://i.postimg.cc/TPNZkfbx/tb3.jpg

Weekend City II

RHD, only the back of signs but quite an odd bike symbol on the ground, I have a feeling that this could be former East Germany or even Poland.

that rail on the nearest roof - to keep snow from falling off?

What are those weird-looking trees in the courtyard at the far right of the picture?

artwork?

on the first picture too (different views of the same neighborhood probably)

I've seen real trees that look like that right after they've been severely pruned.

I’m struggling to recall seeing anywhere in Poland built so uniformly, when it comes to mid-rise blocks. I’m wondering whether it might be the Netherlands.

maybe that big cluster of identical looking buildings is one big... hospital? or a retirement home type thing?

I don't think the Netherlands have roads that bad. Belgium, maybe, but those buildings don't look Belgian

trying to make sense of the bridge/crossing in the back of the first picture. can’t make out if it’s open or closed. could it be an overground metro line or a (sub)urban railway line?

Revising my hypothesis to France, having noticed the bike lane symbol with solid wheels like the ones used in Paris.

Strasbourg, France!

https://goo.gl/maps/rGVmzkM3UyzMEg5m6

Eventually hit on the idea of googling for bike lane markers in different countries and bike-friendly European cities, quickly found that Strasbourg uses those distinctive markings with the solid wheels.

xp - I see others were on the same track.

Strasbourg! yes, makes sense, has that rebuilt-but-crumbling vibe of French Belgium.