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Visiting the Taliban. Part 1.
Let's go! The new highway M12 Moscow-Kazan is just super! 800 km of fully illuminated perfect asphalt in 4 lanes, modern gas stations, markings, electronic information boards - it's a pleasure to drive on it. It's a pity that the speed limit is only 110 km, for me it's possible to set 150, anyway everyone violates it. ) Today it's 8.30 a.m. Ours is still small.Read more
The Silk Way Rally
Three months ago my old friend Eugene Pyatigorsky phoned me and made an unexpected offer. — Would you like to take part in the Silk Way Rally this summer? — Pardon? As who? Isn't it an advanced race, in which professionals compete? Like participants and winners of Dakar and other world rally raids. And I'm not a sportsman, I'm a traveller. — So your answer is "no"? — No, of course, I agree! When does it start?Read more
In vain they call the North extreme ...
-Why Vorkuta? Why there, and even in February? - My friends' surprised questions suggest some more or less sensible answer. But there is no such answer. At 21.50 on platform 1 of track 1, the fast train Moscow-Vorkuta departs. The series "Journey to Vorkuta" lasts 40Read more
A motorbike journey to the Edge of the World, part 3. Shikotan
A motorbike trip to Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands. A small green tug with painted Japanese hieroglyphs on the board buried its nose into the side of a huge ship Igor Farkhutdinov, pushing it to the pier.Read more
A motorbike journey to the Edge of the World, part 2. Kunashir
The Korsakov seaport, where ships depart from for the Kurile Islands, is located 40 km from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Yandex taxi will take you there in 40 minutes and it will cost you 1100 roubles.Read more
A Motorbike journey to the Edge of the World, part 1. Khabarovsk, Sakhalin
Two years ago our trip to the Russian Far East was interrupted in the most unexpected and unpleasant way. When we were 120 km from the port of Vanino (we were in a hurry to catch a ferry to Sakhalin) an old Mazda took me off the highwayRead more
Across Altai by enduro motorbike. June, 2021
Well, finally we reached the genuine Altai. The one where you see snow on the top of the mountains, stormy rivers overflowing their banks, feel pure air, enjoy picturesque roads surrounded by the rocks on which some tall pine trees grow!Read more
A journey to Crimea, 2021
I haven't been to this fabulous peninsula, which I love very much and consider to be my second homeland, for long. That time the bridge was still under construction and the road across Kerch wasn't a pleasant experience.Read more
Gelendzhik
20 kilometres from Gelendzhik in the area of the village of Kabardinka there is a very unusual attraction that appeared here two years ago. A huge dry cargo ship with the romantic name Rio was washed ashore by a storm in December 2018.Read more
Caucasus 2020. Moto-travel. Part 3
Once again, for the third time this fall, I am returning to the Caucasus. 2850 rubles for a ticket from Domodedovo to Mineralnye Vody, two hours in the air, 20 minutes by taxi to Pyatigorsk, and here we are again, reunited with my trusty steed, who patiently waited for me for two weeks under the apple trees in the yard of a kind person.Read more