Quote Originally Posted by Роберт View Post
What was your city in the Urals?
You have probably never heard of it. It is called Magnitka, and it is not a city, just a small mining town (well, not even a town by Russian standards - its official designation is "urban type settlement"). Its population never exceeded 15,000, and now it is considerably less. People often confuse it with the city of Magnitogorsk whose inhabitants also call their city Magnitka, but it is a different place. The three-storied apartment house where I was born and grew up looked a bit like the house in your video, at least on the outside. And we had a lot of spruces and firs in the woods around the town. Other trees too, of course, but most of those are found in and around Moscow as well, but whenever I see a spruce (or smell one, for that matter), it reminds me of my childhood