Guess the City

yay! thanks for actually finding it!

Correct! It is, of course, the Korpus Culture Center in Minsk

The first picture looks like it might be inside a travel agency, so maybe the Maxx Royal plaque is indicating they have organized trips to that hotel.

Also correct, its the Turberi travel agency, across the road from the Culture Center

hahaha so good

here it is!
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.9145659,27.5745101,3a,75y,334.28h,81.34t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNZDf_ekwELcMH0mno2dUkDanKwnrvXYQI1CGq6!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNZDf_ekwELcMH0mno2dUkDanKwnrvXYQI1CGq6%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya242.40256-ro-0-fo100!7i10000!8i5000

if only we could use this kind of team work to solve crimes or something :-)

... or commit them

https://www.bellingcat.com/

https://i.postimg.cc/rmL8zjjs/thurs.jpg

Bonus points for successful apprehension

Eastern European looking dudes with palm trees? This one's hard. Is it an album cover from a Gorbachev-era New Wave band?

fascinating! no idea yet :)

Definitely looks one of those “Swagger of Oasis…” type band shoot.

https://i.postimg.cc/N0nbQxWn/zzz.jpg

View II

Central America? South America? Southern Europe? (thinking there's too much green for that but not sure) - so... no real idea yet

Second picture looks like it could be a plaza in a Latin American city.

First one looks high altitude/mountainous to me

gonna go out on a limb and guess this is Argentina

I thought Arentina wasn't very mountainous & I'm looking around in Chile, kind of

Argentina has lots of mountains. The street view could plausibly be Mendoza but I don’t recognise it.

https://i.postimg.cc/sXPSDx9k/xv.jpg

View III

I wish I had any idea but I still don't

I don't know either but you get way cooler images if you search on yandex for "abandoned pier south america" than on google.

I think it's the ruins of Florida in 2049

abandoned resorts are often an Eastern block thing, but this looks too tropical

That looks like a stadium in the background. I'm getting a Mediterranean vibe from this pic.

Talked myself into thinking this was Malta but couldn't find matches for the images in Valetta at any rate

https://i.postimg.cc/bN0XrL35/u8.jpg

View IV

That's a docked cruise ship back there, right?

Fading resort town with palm trees, but guys in first photo look more East European than Mediterranean, and guys in last photo are well wrapped up as if it's pretty cold. Was initially thinking Argentina, but the buildings don't look that South American. Maybe somewhere on the Black Sea? Sochi or somewhere like that? Don't think it's a docked cruise ship btw, I think it's a building.

Hmm: "While it is well known to many that lots of palms grow in Sochi, Russia, it is not the only place in the country where palms are found."

Sadly, time does not permit my checking out every resort town on the Black Sea...

Black Sea feels good as a guess - buildings shaped like ships on concrete piers are certainly a thing there: for instance https://www.google.be/maps/@42.9962529,41.0214901,3a,75y,356.33h,89.14t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMv4dL-ZVQX7xicMc03OWV1PnHhdr53JIIS5cso!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMv4dL-ZVQX7xicMc03OWV1PnHhdr53JIIS5cso%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya129.18877-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096

SO many resorts on that coast though! I feel like I've seen 200 piers and I'm only like 5% of the way

um...

I think you found it, StanM. Just a bit further up the beach.

https://goo.gl/maps/bgEHhJtz31dQgRwCA

god f* damnit! How did I miss that?

I only clicked on piers, I think :(

ooooooh - view III isn't google earth, is it? ok ok ok

I, III, and IV are all on streetview

Reading about Sukhumi, apparently the destination for Soviet leaders dachas, now capital of Abkhazia, how much more "abandoned Eastern block resort" can you get than that? Nice choice.

All of our Guess The Citys from now on should be in "frozen conflict" zones. Next up, guess where in Transnistria!

I want to visit the Sokhumi Monkey Nursery.

I see where view III is supposed to be but I don't think the blue dot is where it should be.

View I: https://www.google.be/maps/@42.9957559,41.0095129,3a,75y,319.26h,113.27t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPAMTucdL_kZWcRRR17kI6wgWdmnD4E5CvtWA4f!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPAMTucdL_kZWcRRR17kI6wgWdmnD4E5CvtWA4f%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya0-ro-0-fo100!7i7200!8i3600

xpost : it looks depressing https://www.google.be/maps/place/Sokhumi+Monkey+Nursery/@43.0074951,41.0211576,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipM9tBa1zdoNuFuR0Z5daa2AoqLZfyQtt6FRQaWs!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipM9tBa1zdoNuFuR0Z5daa2AoqLZfyQtt6FRQaWs%3Dw224-h298-k-no!7i3456!8i4608!4m7!3m6!1s0x405f21f4ad9b01f3:0xf89d9c9447a7e1cf!8m2!3d43.0081831!4d41.0215336!14m1!1BCgIgAQ

Well, that looks less nice than I hoped. Sorry, monkeys.

monkey gulags

https://i.postimg.cc/k4t9Nkxx/suk4.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/yN2CNvwW/suk5.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/pL2WNcHH/suk7.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/j5N0nybc/u4.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/28kMrsV2/u6.jpg

looks like havana but with techno

confusing - it's like every image is from another part of the world. Love this!

Yeah it looks awesome.

Lack of black and brown people, I think we're in the Eastern bloc again.