One summer I was travelling from the capital (Sofia) to a town nearby. It was 50C degrees inside the marshrutka. I had to stay bent with my face pointing to the ground the whole trip so the litres of sweat from my head can fall on the ground not on my clothes.
dude i legit was so confused to why i hadn't seen a vid from you in a while and i just saw that youtube unsubscribed me from you wtf lmao, hope you're doing good brotha
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Vladimir Kozlovsky haha exactly, Im so happy living in Prague too. Public transport is one of the best in Europe. I remember marshrutkas from my childhood in Russia and yes, its a horrible expirience.
Bucharest public transport isn't that bad, but what buses have routes to the Bucharest metro zone... They are exactly like the ones in the video, and they probably are held together and run on black magic
As a Filipino, I can relate to Roman's terrible public transport experience, it's the same here in the Philippines. Buses and Jeepney's (modified Jeep) are packed to the brim with people who are trying to go to work, travel, groceries etc. Monday and Friday are the worst days to ride public transport because as mentioned above. I prefer riding the cabs because, at the very least, they actually go without packing it full with people.
i miss the NFKRZ era, he even changed the pfp... I guess it's just another Pyrocynical 2.0 cicle all over again, RU-vidr makes funny videos, changes to pander to a bigger audience, gets a bigger audience, stops being funny or unique, I stop watching.
In Russian there is no word for toes: there are “leg fingers”, he probably meant to say “fingers on my feet”, instead of “my toes”, realized and combined the two
@@ngcongyoncemixbaal4145 No, Russia does not want to come back to Stalin and marshrutkas are not "hell", they are just a small bus, nothing more nothing less.
@@romanz9342 the last survey in Russian according to political figures came out in the first three places. I might ask the people who lived in Soviet times and see when they could buy food now or before.
As an Englishman who has been on Marshrutkas in Moldova and Ukraine, I can confirm this is explained extremely well 😆😆 it's an absolutely bizarre experience.
why do I have to be the unlucky digga to still have them in my city... At least they upgraded from Benz Varios and rotting Ivecos and VWs to actual minibuses. Still not comfortable. Still extremely crowded. And fuck their schedule
I live in Saint Petersburg, I was forced to take marshrutka to visit my granddad (due to the lack of normal transport in that part of the city), so the driver actually watched TV on a small LCD, some sitcom comedy show while driving a microbus full of passengers...
@@dajdasdq я раньше вообще в центре жил в коммуналке но теперь в невском районе, метро и транспорт рядом, но тут немного жопа, соц квартал со всеми вытекающими, две мусорные свалки рядом, еще золоотвалы - токсичные отходы и тд
@@quite1enough погуглил про золоотвалы, думал что за дичь, какая то мелкодиспансерная черная пыль собирается на окнах, тоже в центре раньше жил и там такого не было
Yeah, thats terrible. In Latvia we have minibuses with a back door, but even when its super packed and you are way way at the back, you will yell and ask if the driver ccould open the back door and they usually get angry and say that they wont. ....this ia a small thing I should not be complaining about...but....wtf
Actually, one of my scariest childhood experiences happened in one of these shitbox busses. I was so scared of the driver going like a maniac, so I put on a seatbelt, but guess what, it got stuck. So I'm there, struggling to get out, everyone's shouting at me and I'm crying... After a minute of struggling, I wiggled out through the top without undoing the belt
Haha one of my scariest experience happened in them too. I was four years old and one of my legs got stuck in the door while leaving the bus with my mom (somebody pushed it close from the inside and I got stuck). The driver didn't notice and started to drive. Luckily my mom managed to pull my foot out of my shoe before the driver sped up.
Well actually it's depends on a teacher. Some like him and would argue with you and some don't like him and complaining, criticise him if you ask. But almost every classroom have Putin's picture on the wall. That part trowing me off
Smartest people of this and the past century: Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Hawking: Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. NFKRZ: The fingers on my toes.
@@jaspercorbyn8678 Yeah, but keep in mind that he had a brain fart moment, and what he really meant to say is "toes on my legs", he wasn't trying to substitute fingers with the toes in the first place.
@@onyeenoma Russian also have name for each finger: большой (big), указательный (pointing), средний (middle), безымянный (noname) and мизинец (youngest son/child, but now it doesn't have that meaning)
In english, there are fingers and toes. In other languages: russian or polish, there are fingers on hands and fingers on foot, we have no special word for toes. He wanted to say "fingers on feet" like it would be in russian.
it's actually a common thing! Not only your toes but also fingers and your nose :D super annoying. And sometimes there could be ice on your eyelashes because the heat of your breath goes up. looks kinda cool but again annoying lol
Idiots in 50's decided to replace all the perfectly fine trams in Istanbul with Trolleybusses that can't even go up a hill and would stop when electricity went out which happened quite often back then. All of them got scrapped in 70's and were replaced by normal busses. So at the end we lost our trams and got shitty busses but thankfully a lot of our trams are getting build or built already plus we got a lot of suburban rail, metros and BRT's.
"Dollar vans" in New York City are almost exactly like this by the sound of it. Tons of people crammed into a bare bones van, the driver drives like an absolute mad man (and is always distracted by a handful of things), they're a serious hazard on the road, and so much more
@@Sir1us1 there is no intercity metro.. its the only railroad, and there are more stations in the city, but its all national and international transportation.
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 Yes it is. Metro was supposed to be build in the 70s but it was never finished and with the corrupt governemnt and opposition we have I'm pretty sure we'll have flying cars before a functioning metro system. Hell, we don't even have a proper ring road. Considering how badly planned Belgrade is, our public transport ain't half bad. But still, whoever designed city layout after WW2 was smoking crack while doing so, because everything apart from New Belgrade (Novi Beograd) was planned like my little sister was playing SimCity for the first time.
Чувак, я почти твой сосед, живу на Марченко. Когда учился, каждый день ездил в главный корпус Челгу на этом сраном говне. Ты своим рассказом устроил мне такие флешбеки... Часовые поездки под юмор.фм или еще какой-нибудь пиздец... На третьем курсе получил права, купил самую дешевую ржавую шестерку и это был такой апгрейд, господи...
Та ладно, тут такие флешбеки по всей стране и за пределами (по территории пост-совка). Вон в Киеве с района Троещина через Московский мост в час пик от часа до двух только, чтобы до метро доехать :( Один раз бухой тип в салоне проблевался, так всю дорогу кисленьким еще пахло.
Interestingly Mexico City also has this ...Peseros. They charge like $1(USD) and then they take you to the Metro, but it's not as bad as he makes it seem. The parks and plazas of Chelyabinsk for some reason remind me of some parts of Mexico City. I'm not sure, but I believe Communist architecture and urban planning may have to CDMX in the 40s-60s.
We had in Lithuania these buses by private business also but now they're the part of public transport and everyone is the same, new and pretty comfortable.
more like the worst combination of the jeepney, UV express and bus the jeepney because sometimes they wont stop for miles the uv express because of the vehicle type and its so cramped inside the bus because of how you have to fight your way to the door and they still stop to pick up more passengers when its already full, plus the junk and ass in your face thing
MarioDesigns the same goes for Moscow. They look civilized Mercedes minibuses whatever .You can pay by tapping a credit/transport card but it's still a pain in the ass if you are over 1.9m .Thank God there are enough buses in Moscow and you can ignore those minibuses.
@@bjufrd3857 they are virtually non existant in Lithuania. Maybe in one or two cities they do, but in most they are not found or city bus system replaced and bought new minibuses (but they act like normal ones: have a schedule, stop at one stops, pay the same as in regular bus and is just better) or some routes exist but they are very unpopular, very few of them, and only actually go to places more far away from the city where there are no normal busses. Whenever I see them they have no more than 3 or 4 people inside. So basically, the marshrukta culture in Lithuania is destroyed and it is fine now, however city transport still isn't great.
Jackub N Yeah, I was referring to regular mini-busses. Never used any public transit except a regular minibus to and from the airport when i was there though.
I am from Moldova. I am crying 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣And imagine this when you also have motion sickness and it is not minus 35 degrees but +35 celsius(+45 inside) and people think the stream of air(if there is such a thing) will make them sick and they close all of the windows and they don't give a shit you lose your counciousness or you want to throw up. They just close the fucking windows. Easy, haa?
Imagine me as a Dutch tourist in Moldova in a Marshrutka with my luggage in rush hour. Me: Sitting in the Marshrutka on my luggage smiling, being a happy tourist. The other people in the Marshrutka: Looking at me jealously because I have a better seat.
I had the same problems. On the bus routes were the so-called "Maxi-Taxi". They were just as problematic. Now they have taken them out and only the city hall buses work. Greetings from Romania.
I still kinda don't get the appeal of Moldova as a tourist destination. Sure we got some pretty sights here and there, but most of what you get is probably not the best wine and some apples. Also good amounts of poverty.
The Moscow Metro is certainly beautiful, looks way more appealing when compared to the NYC Subway (which has stations that are literally falling apart). These remind me of the dollar vans we used when I lived in NJ. Dollar vans stop at every corner to pick up passengers, they run parallel to NJ Transit routes. My worst experience was rush hour to NYC. We were waiting for a regular NJ Transit to NYC and it never showed up so we saw a dollar van heading to Port Authority and decided to take it. Even when there were no seats, the bus was filled to the brink and felt squished. Looked like everyone else along the route was also waiting for a NJ Transit bus that never came.
well, the real experience of Moscow's metro isn't that beautiful, maybe in recent 2-3 years they've replaced most old trains with new ones, but it was super noisy, you can't literally talk in the train, and there is a smell of engine oil in the station, many older stations are also quite dim. Some metro stations are so deep that it takes you 7-8 minutes just to get down the platform. remember, most people commute in a hurry and what they need is not art but efficient and clean, quite transportation
What are the public transport there? Are they reliable outside the big cities? Any plans for metro in the capital?
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@@shngain100 in most bigger cities we have trolleybuses and buses. It is actually pretty decent, I can tell you that because I live here. Smaller cities have just the buses, because there are no trolleybus power lines. I think there was a consideration to build a metro in early 2000s, even route plans were created, but that whole idea got veto'ed and throw to trash. Arguments were that vibrations could destroy Vilnius (the capital) old town and the cost was enormous too, around 890 million euros I think. Of course, on busy times when everyone is going to work or from work, buses and trolleybuses are crammed too, people sre squeezing each other, in summer its enormously hot (some newer buses have AC, but they are rarely turned on) and in the winter it is pretty cold or too hot, because the driver puts the heat up to the max and when you are wearing a lot of clothes it gets too hot. But overall it is still decent, routes are pretty accessible too
We have the same thing here in Turkey, they are called "dolmuş" which literally means something like "it is full". The drivers often beat up passengers or other people while in traffic with crowbars and shit lmao.
I'm so glad here in Lithuania the government got rid of these shitbox route taxis and started funding public transport instead. We still have route taxi analogs (they stop on your request only), but they're modern and funded by the government
@@eyeballpapercut4400 nah, we have our own problems and hope that one day those countries actually get better economically and politically, especially Belarus
@@LGaidjrg_non ya know dude, just happy you guys were pretty much first countries to get into some decent state when left USSR. Hopefully we in Russia and Belarus will get shit together too.
I had the same problems. On the bus routes were the so-called "Maxi-Taxi". They were just as problematic. Now they have taken them out and only the city hall buses work. Greetings from Romania.
Watching this in Jan 2024 and this bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, handsome young man knows nothing of what the future holds for him, and for the rest of us across the world. God bless you and keep you, Roman.
I found Roman's channel recently and saw him in all degrees of grief and despair after the outbreak of the war and his escape from Russia. If only he had known then that something much worse than marshrutka was coming
Imagine having a major hangover with a tummy preparing to purge from both ends in one of those cramped rides where you can't see the outside and you get thrown around for every stop.
We have the same thing in nigeria, also never ridden one but god are they a mess. not to mention my city is one of the most densely populated in the world.. it gets bad, plus the traffic probably has a world record or two
I was in a marshrutka in russia a few years back. I am from the UK and our buses are like very slow and a lot of old people ride the bus. And when the bus stops to let people on, they stay stopped until everyone's paid and seated, and doors closed. Russian marshrutka just stops for 2 seconds just to let people on, and instantly starts going 200 miles an hour, door still open, people haven't even managed to sit or hold onto anything yet and almost fall over, and then they start counting money their hands are full and can't hold onto anything and the driver does sharp turns or sudden brakes, everyone almost falls over again and drops their money, then they give it to the driver and he starts counting the notes and counting how much change to give, not even looking at the road and still going 200mph, also there's a snowstorm and it's night time and you literally can't see shit, and the road is full of ice and the bus keeps drifting, also potholes everywhere and shakes the whole thing up, it's like a richter 10 earthquake inside there. Also the driver the whole time was shouting in Arabic or Kazakh or something on the phone. I just couldn't believe the hardcore russian babushkas didn't give a shit about any of the chaos that's going on. In the UK all the old ladies would be like "oh deary me, how terribly unpleasant" at the slightest little tiny bump or sudden brake. It was such a huge contrast, and honestly, I loved how insanely crazy and chaotic it was, it was like doing one of those adrenaline rush extreme sport things. Literally drifting on ice with 0 visibility, at the speed of formula 1 car, and no one even cared. I was shitting myself lmao. But I guess honestly the driver was skilled AF to be able to do all that.
I live in indonesia and here we have something called angkot which is literally the same thing and this had me smiling like an idiot thinking that it turns out we're not the only one who had problem with these kind of things
As a Bangladeshi, I can relate. Except instead of cold, we got heat and instead of minibuses, we got big buses but they still get crammed up anyway (especially during busy hours). And don't get me started with traffic.
In Bulgaria we got rid of them some 10 years ago. By the time we did, marshrutkas were a copy/paste of everything you described. Now we ride EU funded normal busses/trolleys/trams and subway.
@Larry David, thanks. I won't say I miss the dark ages, yet getting home stained (both physically and mentally) daily from the brutalist reality city life in Sofia back in the 90s was at least, how shall I put it, not boring. Now we try getting used to first-world problems. The human condition is such of never being satisfied.
Thank you for talking about this, it 100% confirms all of my feelings about marshrutkas, and I haven't even had to ride them all that much in my life, so I can't even imagine having it to do it daily for years. As a foreigner it was also especially daunting to even have to literally yell in Russian from the back of the car that you want to get off at the next stop, when you barely even know where the hell you are... And then there's the whole marshrutka "culture" of having to give people their change lol, you sure do make a sacrifice when you try to sit close to the door and end up being the main financial expert of the car for all the people getting on. This shit should no joke be taught in Russian class to foreigners so they can be prepared for this madness
Hahahaha We are glad you enjoyed it 😊 But seriously speaking, it's a nightmare at the best of times, not mentioning the rush hour or extreme winter colds...
12:01 I feel so bad for laughing my ass off at this It sounds so familiar! Only it happened to me on regular city buses and not in vans which are turned into makeshift passenger vehicles
Yo, in South Africa we have exactly these! We just call them taxis, they often kit their vans out with massive bullbars, jump red lights, don't stop at stop streets and blast loud music. They will take you out if you get in their way and are run by actual mafia. They often have turf wars that end in AK-47 fire (the irony)
We have these marshrutkas in Lithuania too,but they are owned by the same company that operates the buses.And the standarts have gone up drastically since they took over.All of the marshrutkas are clean,comfortable to ride in as a result.
I feel you bro, we have the same issue in Romania, they are called "maxi taxi" when I was little I used to travel with them a lot, the conditions were the same, I hope now things are better.
HAHAHAH I relate to this so much, Im from Panama. And we have the exact same type of mini bus, we called them "busitos pirata" (pirate bus) because they are shittier version of a proper bus. And everything you described is the exact same thing here, except that our drivers have a assistant who collects all the money we called them "pavos" (turkeys) idk why tho. And replace the cold with extreme heat and humidity with no AC
Well, I am from a third-world country and even though it's true it can get pretty crowded during rush hours, all our public transport is regulated, every single unit has cooling and heating systems and they are also adapted for disabled people. The driver only has to care about driving, they earn a pretty good salary and loud music is not allowed. I couldn't imagine using transport on such abismal conditions, never seen anything like that. Seems third-world country shit is actually pretty fucking good compared to that 😂
Been on the Montenegrin maršrutka equivalent one time. Nearly went into a head-on collision on a two-lane road because the driver wanted to get past a long line. My seat had no belt and the door next to me had to be held shut by yours truly because the door latch didn't work. 10/10 best early 20's summer vacation.
And I used to complain about waiting for an air conditioned modern bus for 10 minutes and then riding it for 20 minutes to my school here in Finland...
This is the most relatable video ever. When visiting Russia with my mom (living abroad currently), we have to take these shits as there are no proper buses running. Kills the mood immediately.
This brought back a lot of memories for me. I had similar nightmares taking the streetcar in Toronto. Slightly better but pretty much the same thing. 2 hrs to get to uni sometimes. Packed like sardines every morning.
