Thank you for watching the video! Let me know if you would like to visit Nizhny one day, and if you would risk to cycle there? 😁 What other cities do you want to see on my channel? 📌Also, check out my Russian Speaking Club & other projects here! elinabakunova.com/
Next time North Korea please. 😇 Kim is building luxury tourist resort for russian citizens, after visit of VVP. (no joke!) And you Eli are crazy enough to try this 😁😁 and make excellent video of it.
Hi Eli, your videos are generally enjoyable but when interviews with people are too long it's just boring. Like in this one, not much of the city was shown too much talking people that wasn't interesting enough, I had to run forward most of it... Was this the city st. Seraphim's monastery is in?
I live in Vancouver, Washington near Pearson Air Field where Valery Chkalov landed. We have a very nice statue of him at the air field. I will say hello to him for you next time I see him!
i'm french and born in 88 and we was also play on tank when meet military places haha. I'm stay 6 month in Nizhny Novgorod in 2019 after stayed Voronezh before the lockdow, i have also done many other cities and i must say Nizhny Novgorod is one of my favorite place, it's really beautifull and green and with an amazing aura, i really want go back here. Thanks for this vidéo ☺🙏
I love Nizhny Novgorod city.My three children studied Medicine at Nizhny State Medical Research University. I have been there two times,I love the place and people.Thank you Eli.
Eli has become not only an excellent storyteller & scriptwriter, but has become a very good listener, letting her guests have their time to shine & tell their pov, not just hogging the focusing on herself. Beautiful charisma.
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful cities and towns in Russia and neighboring countries. Places, people and cultures we didn't know about. Keep up the great work!
I love how Nizhny Novgorod and many other Russian cities have improved so much over the years. Like Yekaterinburg for example, it has developed so much it looks like a mini Moscow now.
Eli I am so glad that you and your fellow Russian RU-vid travel content creators are persisting in showing everything fascinating about Russia. Your travelogues are a treasure. I spent the summer in Moscow way back in 1988 as a student. I wish I could have explored outside of the zones that foreigners were kept to at the time. Your perseverance and that of the Russian people is inspiring. Friends, food, traditions, culture, art are all things we can focus on to bring us joy.
Can remember the thing with the zones tourists could visit, the "comfort and represent-zones I would call it".😊😉 But there were also some more privileged "earned and political reliable comrades" also from other Eastern Bloc countries, who were allowed to visit some places more than others.
When I was in the USSR, and even elsewhere in Europe, people thought I looked Eastern European. I don’t know why-I’m very WASP with a touch of Viking. But it did help me sneak on the train to a Russian friend’s dacha outside of Moscow. lol
@@sarahlongstaff5101 That surely would never happen to me, I am always "easy going" and smiling, that's also the reason why I got the nickname Sunny🌞😊🙂!! Smalltalk and shopping are my biggest hobbies and I could have invented NATO, neoclassical capitalism and all the other stuff! I even look is so "antirussian" , that I got entry ban into the country for that reason for some month. 😂😅😉😉😉 I guess in reality it's the other way around. Even back in childhood, when I played with my siblings and called for my brother Sascha a woman came around the corner instantly looked at me and told me "Sasha, you seemingly a Russian, aren't you?" 😁😉 cha cha cha Со мной такого точно никогда бы не случилось, я всегда «спокойная» и улыбчивая, именно поэтому я получила прозвище Санни🌞😊🙂!! Светские разговоры и шопинг - мои самые большие хобби, и я мог бы изобрести НАТО, неоклассический капитализм и все такое! Я даже выгляжу настолько «антироссийски», что мне по этой причине запретили въезд в страну на несколько месяцев. 😂😅😉😉😉 Думаю, на самом деле все наоборот. Еще в детстве, когда я играл с братьями и сестрами и звал брата Сашу, из-за угла вышла женщина, сразу посмотрела на меня и сказала: "Саша, ты, кажется, русский?" 😁😉 😁ха-ха-ха😁
WESTERNERS B E C A R E F U L ! In authoritarian and fascist Russia, the state invests huge amounts of money in creating non-political or highly patriotic content to distract people. Distracting content aims to build a certain worldview and demobilise people from dissent. E L I N A B A K U N O V A from Russia is one of their S O F T P R O P A G A N D I S T S (In memory of all Ukrainian civilian victims, women raped, men tortured, children killed or abducted, cities destroyed, and all crimes committed by the Russians)
About "greatest ambassador": what about your reference to those, who saved Russia from its doom in the Yeltsin-years, when it fell pray of the US-mosquitos? Doesn't your praise primarly needs to go first of all to the architect of Russia's revival, a certain Vladimir Putin? Eli profits from his adorable work, as otherwise her videos would not bring joy, but utter sadness.
Hello Eli, this is Alan from Vancouver, Washington, USA. My jaw nearly dropped when you showed the monument to Valery Chkalov. We have a street named after him in Vancouver, it is one of the busiest intersection in the county. There is also a monument to him at the nearby airport. He was certainly a trailblazer in 1937 when he landed here. Best regards to you.
Когда я была ребенком, я читала книгу "Через северный полюс в Америку". Она как раз об этом перелете. Чкалов тогда летел еще с двумя русскими летчиками. Когда они приземлились в США, шел дождь, люди встречали их как героев, все стояли под зонтами. Хорошие были времена. Чкалов погиб в 1938 году через год после этого перелета. Он испытывал новый самолет и погиб. Это была большая утрата для страны. Он чуть-чуть не дожил до Великой отечественной войны. Я знаю эту историю, потому что я живу в Нижнем Новгороде. Удивительно, что в США помнят его и знают!
Моя бабушка родом из одной с ним деревни, Василево ныне Чкаловск. В прошлом году были там семьей, очень понравилось, необыкновенная красота, самый широкий речной разлив, до горизонта
Interesting that you brought that up about Americans going over to the Soviet Union for work from the auto industry before the war, there’s one guy Robert Robinson. He spent over 40 years in the Soviet union he wrote a book about it called “Black on Red” if you can find it’s definitely worth a read
possible Ushanka Show fan? lol. I loved his series on "Black on Red". what an insane story!! glad Robert was able to escape and tell his tale. Imagine thinking you're going to be gone a couple years and boom 40 years go by before you can go "home". at least Robert lived a decent enough life by Soviet standards.
"Are you girls from the collection agency?" Hilarious! You never know what you will find in Nizhny! One fun adventure after another! Well done, Eli! Your friends are very cool! Love the outakes! "rest in peace, Yoda" at the "Star Wars cemetary". Btw, I'm Lavrov's girlfriend. lol. fyi Canadian Feenstra family (countryside acres) are building a beautiful farmhouse for their family of 9 children in that region. They love it!
@@chaitanyakindler8027 Um, do you remember when Lavrov told an entire conference hall fill with Indians that Ukraine started the war and hundreds of people, the entire audience, starting laughing at him? Yeah, he does better; as a sad sack comedy act maybe. My "western-mind" likes facts, honesty, and basic human decency, so Lavrov doesn't rank very high on my scale, I'm afraid. The MAGA people probably love him, though, so YMMV, although one shouldn't use the word mind in that context.
Sometimes it is the mountains, rivers and oceans that are beautiful, but these people from Nizhniy Novgorod are the city's treasure. What a fun tour! Thank you, Eli
Very nice to see such a video about Nizhniy... Lived there 2 years and loved it. I wanted to stay in Russia but couldn't at that time. Now trying to get a resident permit and Nizniy might well be the final destination I'll choose.
@@mth4849 Yep... more than OK. Great town... Not very far so easy access to Moscow... more reasonable prices when it comes to real estate... even though prices rose... like everywhere unfortunately. What's missing the most for me, as a foreigner... direct flights abroad. It's really a pain in the axx to fly to Moscow each time I wanna go back to France.
When I was growing up in the US, I used to play on a tank. It was an M3 Stewart parked in front of an America Legion post located a block from my home. The hatches had been welded shut but kids shoved candy wrappers and soda cans into the observation slits so the tank was filled with trash.
And I played with my tanguska-antiaircraft-tank toy from GDR, dear comrades!😊😉 Or inspected a T 72 with my classmates, when we visited a NVA barracks back than.
@@robertrichard6107 Alltogether the Sherman was probably even a good tank against his maybe some times bad reputations. It was robust, reliable, produced in great numbers (a logistical advantage concerning spare parts delivery, ammunition production etc.) and drove with a car motor and I guess the according gasoline too, which was OK thanks to its moderate weight as a medium tank. Of course it was no match to a tiger or panthers of the German fascists. On the other hand one often overestimated the The role of heavy tanks, they are rather useful for breakthroughs or to stop breakthroughs. The percentage of by them killed tanks isn't very high as tanks are (much) more often were killed by infantry, PAK, mines and planes. The West Allied had a lack of good heavy tanks for a long time, I never understood, why they didn't arrange to get some Soviet ones.🤷 I can remember that indeed a classmate hurted himself, when we visited barracks of the army. He fell off a T 72 and broke his collarbone.
We also had (and still have) a T-34 at our Victory Park. As kids we used to get inside it and turn and lift the cannon of a tank. Unfortunately for us kids the tank was welded soon and now kids can only climb around it and not get inside. I think it was done for safety resons. =)
I visited in 2011 when I rode my bicycle from Beijing to Amsterdam. The WWII museum made an impression. The highway got too busy so I took the ferry to the north bank in Fokino and enjoyed the nice quiet highway to Bor. A young cyclist there invited me in for something to eat, then his family accompanied me on the ferry so I could get a hotel and visit the Kremin.
Wow! The architect of ths beautiful Kremlin was Italian! I didn't know this detail! This city is awesome with its huge rivers. Thanks a lot Eli for your excellent video. Take care🍀🌻🍀🪻
Yes, but in addition to the Dmitrievsky Tower, it has been since the 14th century, but it was remaked to match the color of the rest of the Kremlin (the former Kremlin stone parts were white; in memory of this, a White Tower was partially made of white stone). An important innovation in our fortifications, introduced by Italian fortifiers - barbacane, remote "strelnitsa" (there are few of them in Europe, and two of them in Russia: in Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow).
During the Tatar-Mongol invasion, all Russian architects and artisans were exiled to Central Asia to build cities, because the invaders themselves could not build. Therefore, after the 12th century, Russia is full of architecture built by Italian architects who were invited to restore Russian cities, because many cities were destroyed and burned by the Tatar-Mongols.
Kostya is exactly how I imagine Russians. He is so pessimistic. "It's terrible." 😂😂 You aren't missing anything with Ikea, it is soulless. Beautiful architecture, lovely people, love the coffee shop. Really appreciate the history lesson, never even heard about this.
He is just disrespectful to what he has. Thinking he lives in shit and deserves some ideal life not having done a thing for that. Just this type of a person. Thanks God not a typical Russian. Just a,personality
@@lidiapannacotta I'm not American, I'm Swedish by the way, but I think he should visit St. Louis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Downtown L.A and Detroit, or more or less any city or town in Midwest America. Maybe that would make this "urbanist" a little more appreciative of what he has got.
@somerandomvertebrate9262 I feel sorry for such guys nothing more. I am a resident of Nizhniy Novgorod, and I am ashamed of such compatriot. I show the real NIZHNIY in my blog. And don't complain. Just see the beauty. I am a very proud for what I have in my city. Though I have seen a lot of other world.
Some one said your videos are too long and too much talking to people. I beg to differ. I thought your video's are not long enough ,I also enjoy the fact you interact with the local folk and your friends . It's nice to know that people are not too different too one another and interesting of course. Carry on with what your doing ..its an amazing thing...and an amazing gift. Love from England Eli ... ❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing your beloved Russia with us, Eli. Thank you! ❤❤ There is so much to Russia that the rest of us would never have guessed that all these are part of Russia!
Eli, if you are looking for a city with protected bicycle paths, come to Calgary. We have over 1000 km. of those here. Even in the middle of winter you will see people on them. Consider yourself invited. And thanks again for another wonderful documentary.
Thanks Eli, your videos just keep improving! Very hearty and conveys a wonderful impression all you share with us. Many areas in the US do not have even sidewalks so walking or riding bicycles is a big risk.
20:05 - She said 14 year old boys would arrive at the factory claiming to be 16 and "already old enough to be a worker" - they wouldn't have had to lie in Britain, where the school leaving age was raised to 15 in 1944; then 16 as late as 1972. My mother worked in a factory at 15.
I am so thankful for these Russian channels. Those of us who grew up during the cold war, were kept in the dark about Russia. These channels have opened my eyes and how we were so lied to about Russia. I once feared Russia and now enamored by Russia.
I studied the Russian Revolution (and The Merchant of Venice) at Secondary school. I don’t even believe Shakespeare* wrote all that is claimed he did, but i am so glad i got to study the Russian Revolution for 2 years before ‘O’ levels. This was the first 2 years of secondary school, i was so pleased, so fascinated, and so fortunate. - *How can a guy in England during 1600 know intricate details of Italian law.?
Nice to see Nishni again in this video with all the greenery and flowers. I visited it end of March this year for five days on my way from Moscow to Novosibirsk and Tomsk. The landscape was still all white, yet near the city limit of Nishni there was a small spot between trees without snow and a small group of Russians having picknick there in the sun. You're tough guys. Inside the town i saw the Volga-river still frozen and the streets full of water from the melting snow. I once just randomly jumped on a city-bus which headed to the periphery of town. There, to my surprise i saw a bavarian restaurant with even a Swiss flag on its outside. That made me curious, so i got off the bus at the next stop and had lunch in this restaurant. A funny experience. Send you all best and warmest wishes from Switzerland. I plan to come back to your lovely and inspiring country in September ❤️
In Nishni i loved to sit on a park-bench in front of the Kremlin and keep watching the huge river and the immense widh of the russian landscape. After my first visit of Russia during june 23 where i had seen just a small handful westerners, what i appreciated even more this march/april: during the whole month i did not meet a single westerner. Russia pure. I suppose the westerners were all afraid or/and completely brainwashed due to our western propaganda.
For a Swiss like me, in Russia EVERYTHING appears so breathtakingly huge. To go from Moscow to Smolensk f.e. is exactly the distance to cross Switzerland from its very east to its very west.
And, by the way, it seems a worldwide phenomenon that people tend to despise their own town, seeing it overly critical. One of the absurdities of life seems that people from the one city or country travel far to another-one, "because it's so much nicer there", while people from exactly the latter, fed up with it, travel to the first, "because it's so much nicer there."
@@chaitanyakindler8027да согласен, мне Нижний Новгород больше нравится чем Москва. Я жил в Москве некоторое время, мне предлагали работу в Москве, но я отказался. Нижний всё ещё пока уступает Москве по уровню жизни, но всё же явно к ней приближается, это видно с каждым годом, Нижний как по мне идеальный город, он имеет достаточной комфорт как крупный мегаполис, но и имеет некоторый деревенский уют, так как можно сесть на автобус и за 1 час доехать из любой точки доехать до окраины зо город на природу. Вы сколько по времени были в нашем городе? Кстати у нас работает много иностранцев, моими коллегами были афрофранцузом и чехом.У нас есть за городом немецкая деревня. В каком районе находится ресторан в котором вы были?
I live in Nizhny Novgorod since 1991, I came here when I was 16, and I simply love living here. I would never want to live in Moscow, for example. But I would criticise many people living here as they do not respect the place they"re living, that's true@@chaitanyakindler8027
Nizhniy is very theatrical and artistic actually - it has graffiti by a lot of international famous artists, several amazing cinema, music and art festivals, several amazing museums. And very beautiful nature.
Oh this is really funny. Apparently the geographical cretinism is spreaded so much in it's severe stage across western education systems that people don't know not only foreign, but thier own countries. Yes, the more famous Vancouver is the one in British Columbia in Canada. But there's also Vancouver in the state of Washington, which is definitely not in Canada. And the famous Chkalov's flight through the North Pole was from Moscow to that Vancouver in the state of Washington. The amount of "correcting" people here made me chuckle)
This vid fascinated me! Partly due to being USA-born car enthusiast. It almost sounds as though the pickup truck was invented in Russia. You know we love our pickups! So much else in this strange & cool town. I also love the back alleys with street art. Will watch again!
@@dimulaidaristart watching/listening to John Mearsheimer and Dave smith and you will realise that Putin isn't the demon he is made out to be and the west aren't the innocent saints they are portrayed to be.
@@salad7776 Then let other countries also give "freedom" to their “colonies” - first Hawaii will cease to be a colony of the US, then their other overseas and continental Indigenous and Mexican territories will cease to be "colonies" of the US, and then the US itself will cease to exist. Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland will cease to be a "colony" of Britain and other British overseas territories too. France, Denmark, Portugal, Canada etc. When proposing, start with yourself, you hypocrites.
Awesome video Eli! Thanks for showing all sides as always. I would love to see you visit Arkangelsk. Of course, you are welcome in Piter anytime, we'd love to see you here.
👍Thanks Eli...I love the City and Culture in this video !...I also love the COMEDY in it...ESPECIALLY the SWING that is CHAINED the GROUND ! I love from Australia ✈🦘🇦🇺🌹
I laughed at the Russian version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in the coffee shop. And appreciated the dry, understated but nonetheless cutting sense of humor you and your friends seem to share. Very Russian. I guess all those cold winters and historic upheavals are good for that. A fascinating look at a city about which I have heard but of which I knew nothing. Ford was investing in both Russia and Germany at the time. I guess those vehicles met in the war. Just read today terrorism incidents in Russia have doubled since last year. So I think I understand the sensitive situation which was referenced. I hope the politics of the time don’t interfere with your continued presence on RU-vid, Eli. I follow several Russian vloggers. Nobody tells the stories of your country with such production quality like you. My wish for peace between our peoples. p.s. Like Moscow we have some pretty strong magnet effects in the US. New York for media, publishing, finance. LA for music and movies. San Fran and Seattle for tech. We’re a little more spread out. But there’s some powerful attractors here too.
The sound of Nizhniy Novgorod was a fascinating thing to practice saying when I was reading old Russian literature, translated to English, of course. Also, I think there was a spy movie some time ago called Gorky Park, but of course the culture from some of that old literature was focussed on St Peterburg. All of it was fascinating, and now we can tour Russia with Eli! ❤
I write these words from Vancouver in the USA. Greetings! Well over 50 years ago I had an older man who was a local dentist doing some work on my teeth. My dentist while working on my teeth told me a story about how he meet Chalov. When my dentist was a young man he worked at a local clothing store here in Vancouver. General Marshall who was in command of the northwest military district at that time brought Chalov and his crew to the store to buy them some cloths. Here in Vancouver we have a street named after Chalov also many Russians have moved to Vancouver knowing that we have a connection with Ckalov. I enjoyed your video.
The bolted down swing had me laughing for a good minute. :D The Jedi graveyard was also pretty funny. Another great video! There may be certain disadvantages living in this place, but at least we can say that the nature and architecture looks beautiful. And the people living there seemed pretty cool, at least when they weren't busy trying to have you arrested.
I've been living in Nizhny Novgorod since 1991 and I love it here. I moved from Cheboksary when I was 16 y.o. and now I'm 50. I've changed 5 districts of the city so far, all of them have different advantages as well as disadvantages. Now I live in a detached house of my own in the outskirts of the city, so I enjoy nature, sunsets and my garden.
I love all your videos but this one was especially good! I really enjoyed the eccentric dry humour these guys had, it was v entertaining! Kind of like British humour but with a twist
Beautiful place like you. Never a dull moment when you make your videos. Thanks again for learning something new in these other part of the world. Love it.
On my bucket list is visiting Russia, it seems like a paradise for travelers, people are friendly and the country is so interesting...some day it will happens. But the language is a problem...i have tried to do online thingies but to no success...darn! Well tanx for another great video. 🙏🏼👍🏼
Languages are a lot easier to learn by immersion. If you are in Russia and there is a lot of Russian around you, and people with no English so you have to learn to rely on Russian, you learn to learn fast.
Hi, when I was a child I played on Sherman tanks are the armory in Vancouver BC Canada. Also on tanks and guns in the army base in Chilliwack BC Canada.
Omg, that line in the car “it’s a complicated situation in the country”cracked me up. That is Russian humor/sarcasm at its best. Careful there The walls have ears Comrades!
I admire how you didnt let your ego get in the way of making a great video. You recognized had a great tour guide who was very entertaining, and you let her be the primary speaker on this video. Really great video.
I think it’s a perfect destiny for an electric substation to become a coffee shop, both transform energy 😂😂 I loved this video. The music you chose is great and the history so interesting, would love to visit Russia one day when it’s easier 😊
Thank you for that funny video! I like all your videos, especially the ones with a good portion of humour like this. Keep going, Eli! You are great! Greetings from Vienna, Austria! Mir i drushba!
I hope you get to 1M. Unfortunately every city outside the capital of that country has the same problem, a slow erosion of youth to the capital for better opportunities and the loss of this talent. Another excellent video, thank you.
Your videos show both your intelligence and the fascinating info about the places you travel to. So informative. Well done and keep up your great work 👍🏼 Blessings from an admirer ❤
Привет. Спасибо что сняла про наш город. Так классно что ты побывала в моем квартале и во дворе моего дома! Какого именного говорить не буду, для безопасности. Эх жаль что ты не написала, что едешь к нам. я бы мог бы тебе рассказать много интересного про наш квартал, я видел фотографию 1944 года, когда в нашем дворе был сплошной огород, так как был голод, мог бы показать куда в нашем квартале и в какие здания попали немецкие бомбы в 1943 году. Моя учительница по истории рассказывала (ее семья жила во время войны в моем доме), что немецкие самолеты , сбросив бомбы на завод, летали над нашем районом и стреляли в окна домов, так как мой дом был один из самых высоких (в то время) в районе ему много досталось. Старший брат моей учительницы, чуть не погиб в тот день, несколько пуль попали в его комнату и застряли в деревянной двери над его головой. Эх, очень жаль что ты не написала что едешь к нам. я бы мог бы тебе помочь). Hi. Thank you for shooting about our city. It's so cool that you've been in my neighborhood and in my yard! I won't say what name, for safety's sake. Oh, it's a pity that you didn't write that you were coming to us. I could tell you a lot of interesting things about our neighborhood, I saw a photo of 1944, when there was a huge fire in our yard, because there was a famine, I could show you where in our neighborhood and which buildings were hit by German bombs in 1943. My history teacher told me (her family lived in my house during the war) that German planes, after dropping bombs on the factory, flew over our area and shot at the windows of houses, since my house was one of the tallest (at that time) in the area, he got a lot. My teacher's older brother almost died that day, several bullets hit his room and stuck in the wooden door above his head. Oh, it's a pity that you didn't write that you were coming to us. I could help you)
@@BL-ob9fn да это очень интересная тема, район был сильно разрушен, за городом до сих пор можно найти воронки в лесу от авиабомб, так как некоторые немецкие лётчики боялись приближаться в зону проти воздушной обороны и скидывали бомбы в лес и улетали обратно.
An absolutely amazing video! Highly interesting and informative from beginning to end. Of course I'd like to live there I love such history especially how interesting places began and evolved, Nizhny Novgorod certainly is an interesting place.
