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Maria81 Says: Although there is a large indoors pool, the best place to swim in summer is the river Volga. Dubna is located quite high up the river, and hence before the pollution from industries situated further downstream. Water is usually warm enough starting from late May - early...
Maria81 Says: Starting from the May holidays (Labour day as well as May 2nd have been national holidays for years now) the popular weekend pastime is to go to the shores of the River Dubna for a spot of picnicking. The river is a much smaller one (and one of the three surrounding the...
aliante1981 Says: First I guess I must explain what ‘the arrow’ is :))) ‘The Arrow’, or ‘strelka’ in Russian, is what we call the place where the Dubna river flows into the Volga river.It is not exactly inside the town of Dubna, however it is on the territory that is considered by law to...
aliante1981 Says: Everybody in Dubna owes JINR a lot. In fact, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (for that is what the letters JINR stand for) is the single most important reason why Dubna was built in the first place. It is also several years older than Dubna, so the respect of all our...
aliante1981 Says: I realize this tip sounds mighty strange, but here it is. My hometown is a funny place were surprising things tend to happen. I have decided to make this one just for a taster of what you might encounter if you come.Submarines: OK, we do no live anywhere near the sea. But...
Maria81 Says: Despite having over 60,000 inhabitants, Dubna has very much a small-town feel, especially if you are sticking to the older part, the one where JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) is located. For this older part the best way to get around is on foot (unless you're in...
Maria81 Says: In case you do not have a car, or simply don't want to be bothered with the Moscow traffic, your best bet for transport is a train.It will take you just under 3 hours with a standard one (which stops at every stop and is rather noisy and uncomfortable) or 2 hours sharp on an...
aliante1981 Says: Right next to Perekrestok, the location is, most probably, not the best one. Still, this is a bit of a different shop. You will find yourself better going to ýPerekrestoký if you need, say, loads of food for a week. If you need fresh bread & a snack, or a pack of ham or...
aliante1981 Says: This is the first big, really western-style food self-service supermarket in Dubna. Opened in December 2003, ýPerekrestoký belongs to the chain of Moscow food stores.Most common food costs 10-30 percent less than in any other store of Dubna. There are also more expensive...
When a person tells he lives in Pentagon... Part 2
aliante1981 Says: But these weird names do not complete the local map. Here’s what else you might find useful. These places are all points of orientation that we feel quite difficult to omit when describing to somebody how to find his or her way. I tired it once myself – I had to explain to a...
When a person tells you he/she lives in Pentagon..
aliante1981 Says: This is a chapter on our local, known only to residents and frequent visitors, place names. The funny thing is that people here are so accustomed to using our own made-up place names, that we rarely know the location and proper names of the streets, except the one we live...
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Well, I know I am not totally objective on Dubna. But, this is the only place I know in Russia where I can walk in the streets at any hour of day and night and encounter no dangers.
Then, the drivers are certainly more courteous here than in bigger cities and will *not* try do their outmost best to run you down with their cars. Few drunk people in the streets, again...
Updated Mar 26, 2003
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During the Soviet era I would have been obliged to put this one as first in the ?Must See? category. Presuming there would have been Internet and VirtualTourist here, of which I would have been doubtful? But that?s off topic, for I try to keep travel and politics safely separated from each other - not the attitude you could expect from a political science student:)))
But let?s go back to our monuments? This one is one of the biggest ones to Lenin that exist (or existed), or even it was the biggest - that I can not tell with 100% certainty. It is little visited for it is not strictly inside the town zone, but rather in one of those big water-and-greenery zones that do formally belong to Dubna. Built long ago, it then had company - there was an identical statue to Stalin, but we were rid of that even before the Soviet Union collapsed. I believe, though, that there?s still the pedestal of the monument to Stalin standing. Another sight of the Soviet era?
I actually wondered why the Lenin statue is still standing? Maybe because the people here (and we are not a communist city - just look up our voting records!!!) thought it was somehow wrong to bring down the memories of the past - however gruesome it might have been?
Written Oct 1, 2003
Maria81 Says: Over 15 years ago - somehow (I don't think anybody quite remembers how and why!) - Dubna became one of Russia's main water-skiing centres. To the point that the town hosts a world cup stage on the Volga river close to the dam connecting the two sides of the city. A bottle...
Maria81 Says: One of the few benefits of really cold weather is that you don't need artificial ice skating rinks. Every winter, the pitch of the football stadium, as well as the open air tennis courts, are covered with ice. While the tennis courts are sometimes used for ice hockey, the...
Maria81 Says: My original hometown's favourite sport was skiing, though of the cross-country, not the downhill variety (as we had plenty of forest but no hills to speak of). Indeed, local schools devoted one term of physical education lessons each year to skiing.To cater to the...
We Are Small, Aren’t We? - Part 4
aliante1981 Says: …This is Part 4 of my previous tips, dealing with Dubna and its comparison to some of the other countries… We are small, aren’t we? Now, that really depends… I have always considered Dubna to be a small town, with its 67,500 thousand people. And it is small - by Russian...
We Are Small, Aren’t We? - Part 3
aliante1981 Says: …This is Part 3 of my previous tips, dealing with Dubna and its comparison to some of the other countries… We are small, aren’t we? Now, that really depends… I have always considered Dubna to be a small town, with its 67,500 thousand people. And it is small - by Russian...
We Are Small, Aren’t We? - Part 2
aliante1981 Says: …This is Part 2 of my previous tip, dealing with Dubna and its comparison to some of the other European countries…We are small, aren’t we? Now, that really depends… I have always considered Dubna to be a small town, with its 67,500 thousand people. And it is small - by...
We Are Small, Aren’t We? - Part 1
aliante1981 Says: Now, that really depends… I have always considered Dubna to be a small town, with its 67,500 thousand people. And it is small - by Russian standards. And once, when this thing came to my mind again, I just decided (as a matter of a joke) to see what place Dubna would take in...
I was most pleasantly surprised to find in the improved database of VirtualTourist my actual home town. Before that, I was actually forced to write that my home was Moscow. But it's Dubna. I know...
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