Cheap flight adventure to Kharkiv Ukraine (part 1) 

Elevator Filmer SG Goverment doesn’t want money. sike they do

eVisa is required for British citizens to go to Azerbaijan.

umm. They weren't

The lift at 12:36 is a refurbished Soviet lift. It is still relay controlled (and works as a set with the other original soviet lift) and has soviet door motors. The only thing changed is the cab is refurbished.

@@benolifts woah, that's nice! In Vladivostok we have only a few number of OTIS Europa lifts

This building is part of the same block as the first one. Some parts refurbished and some parts original. On the roof the non rendered brickwork can still be seen.

Karacharovsky Mechanical factory (Карачаровский механический завод)

How well built would you say the soviet blocks are. Most of them the bricks look like they are all over the place and not aligned to make a smooth finish.

Beno structurally they look reasonbly sound, the white calcium silicate blocks are quite common. They look like white bricks but it’s not a ceramic product but a man-man type of lime/sand stone that’s quite strong. In the netherlands and germany it’s a popular material for erecting the load bearing walls of a house. Soviet buildings also made good use of precast concrete, the prestressed hollow floors that they used are still common today are actually pretty good in general. The house I live in has hollow core floors as well. The in-situ concrete of those soviet buildings look krusty to me, not of particulairy high standard in terms of mix and aggregate use. But not too different from western made concrete from the same time period. I’ve seen some horribly made concrete from a building in the netherlands that where built in the 1950’s that was poorly executed with rough formwork and way to coarse aggregate in it. Some of it was falling apart and was cracking and I could rip off bits with my hands as the rebar was heavily corroded due to it beeing in a basement under a block of flats.... I reckon the soviet buildings are not the healthiest in terms comfort and mildew problems.

that building on 3:00 is actually not renovated -- it is completely new. Yes, we still build these shitty human formicaries in XXI century -.-"

Metro may be in part 2

it’s a separate video

I haven't managed to get on top of one

How interesting is it there?

@@benolifts it's city centre can compared to central European style centre

Arriva

Stagecoach

Little & Often

National Express

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