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            "title": "Samara metro map",
            "content_html": "<p>Check out the new <a href=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/samara\/\">Samara metro map<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/samara\/\" class=\"e2-text-picture-link\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-metro.png\" width=\"2000\" height=\"870\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Designed  by Nikolay Romanov, directed by myself. Special thanks to Sergey Chikin and Leonid Motovskih.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Check out the new Samara metro map",
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            "title": "Samara in October, 2013",
            "content_html": "<p>There are many beautiful old buildings in the city center:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1491.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"804\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">1<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>They have fantastic signs:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1489.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">2<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And gorgeous balconies:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1500.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">3<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many buildings have arches:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1517.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">4<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1510.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">5<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For some reason, when I was here for the first time, I did not have any curiosity to what was inside. But I should have:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1506.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">6<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1509.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">7<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The true Samara yards are behihd those arches. With shoes being dried on a little fence:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1469.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">8<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With wonderful stairs:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1492.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">9<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With colorful doors:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1459.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">10<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Without any doors:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1493.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">11<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With impossible brickwork:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1470.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">12<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With numbers written on a wall:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1468.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">13<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With numbers written on a fence:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1476.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">14<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And, of course, with mailboxes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1458.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">15<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Look at those mailboxes!<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1483.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">16<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1486.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">17<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1461.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">18<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1511.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">19<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1487.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">20<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_1472.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">21<\/div>\n<\/div>\n",
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            "content_html": "<p>Samara is a city on the Volga river in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>There are reversible lanes here. Also, notice the sign on the very right:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8219.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"There are reversible lanes in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Street name plates have two names:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8276.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Street name plates have two names in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>One is historical, the other one is current:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8545.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"A street name plate in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trolleybus route plate utilises a beautiful font:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8257.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Trolleybus route plate utilises a beautiful font in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tram and trolleybus authority:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8199.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Tram and trolleybus authority in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>An anchor:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8532.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"An anchor sign in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Entrances to a bath-house and a laundry:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8502.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Entrances to a bath-house and a laundry in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The artists’ society:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8548.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"A house of the artists’ society in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The house is barely standing:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/samara-IMG_8555.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"The house is barely standing in Samara\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The pictures are from the trip in October, 2010.<\/p>\n",
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