Mascots of the festival? I'm not sure what this creature is.

Lunch

I'll try to post the movie of the singing.

I arrived the day of a Tatarstan festival!



I kind of regret not buying the paper dragons now.

This was a Soviet era restaurant. I couldn't read anything on the menu since there was no English so I just pointed at something at random. By chance, it was delicious!


Lenin in the train station.

The train to Kazan.

According to my guide book, there was an excellent nearby architectual museum of different types of traditional Russian homes. It was not very popular with international tourists. I was the only non-Russian to find it, and the museum was well past it's prime. Buildings were falling apart. The few other visitors were school children.

A large Lenin statue outside the hotel.

This is the apartment building were the physicist who worked on the Soviet atomic bomb before become a peace activist and dissident, Andrei Sakharov was banished.

Sunset in Nizhniy Nozgorod, Russia.

A WWII monument at dusk.

Buskers earning money on the main pedestrian street in Nizhniy Nozgorod, Russia.

The entrance to a theatre.

The beer influenced me to attempt an artistic photo.

This building was used as a bank. There's an ATM machine building below with the clock on the outside.

At the fort area at Nizhniy Nozgorod, there are many relics from WWII. People enjoy posing on them.