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TAR14 EP4: 'It Was Like a Caravan of Idiots'(Siberia)
apskip:
Victor Petrovich Astafijeva, who ever heard of him before today? Now Anton Chekhov I believe most of us have heard of. However, Chekhov was born in Taganov in the Rostov Oblast in southwest Russia, a long way from Siberia.
However, there was a relationship more than Chekhov's references to his "warm Siberia". there must have been a significant relationship. Artist Michael Pennington devised and performed a play titled "Chekhov in Siberia" on BBC Radio in 1986.
That relationship was his trip as part of his medical studies to Sakhalin Island in the far northeast of Siberia (that would be the island whose southern half went from control by Russia to Japan in 1905 and came back in 1944). He surveyed 10,000 convicts sentenced to lifetime quarantine there for his doctoral research.
apskip:
--- Quote from: Neobie on March 02, 2009, 01:54:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: apskip on March 02, 2009, 01:49:55 PM ---Huh? It's a long way on the TransSiberian Railway from Krasnojarsk to Irkutsk. I think I got a 15 to 16 hour transit time.
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It would be 15-16h if you're headed to Irkutsk, but you'd be lost in Siberia, Apskip! :lol:
It's around 12h from Krasnojarsk to Novosibirsk, for example 6.26pm to 6.47am the next day.
So, yeah. Probably too much time for a TBC.
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I don't think I am lost in Siberia. If you examine my multiple posts on the subject of TransSiberian Railway schedules, Neobie, you would conclude otherwise. I am quite familiar with the Krasnojarsk to Novosibirsk schedules, as stated in all versions of the Timelines since we knew Krasnoyarsk was a stop for AR14 and perhaps even a little before that. What is going on here is some speculation about teams maybe goign to Irkutsk. I don't think it happened, but it does not hurt to be prepared with the logistics of how they could do it.
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: hakushu8 on March 02, 2009, 01:38:25 PM ---More info, warranting a new post. Sorry for that.
According to this site: http://www.suvenirograd.ru/sights.php?id=650&lang=2
--- Quote ---Church of St. Innocent of Irkutsk in Ovsyanka, which consists of a wooden chapel belfry and a total area of 59.7 square kilometers. m, was built in 1994 on the initiative and with the participation of writer Victor Petrovich Astafijeva.
The author - architect Areg Demirhanov. Other projects of Demirhanov - a librari and church, created at the request Astafijeva in the Ovsyanka.
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I searched for the boldened name, and I went to this site:
http://russianliterature.org/people/a/astafiev.htm
--- Quote ---Writer. Born on May 1, 1924 in the village of Ovsyanka, in the Krasnoyarsk region. In 1942 graduated from the Rail School and worked that year for four months on building a railroad. In 1942 joined the military and went to fight in World War II. Studied at a soldier's school in Novosibirsk in 1942, and in 1943 fought until the end of the war as a soldier. Was given several medals for his bravery at the war.
After the war worked at a railway station, until in the 1950s started writing stories for the Chusovsky Worker. In 1958 became a member of the Soviet Union of Writers, and in 1962 became a professional writer.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s published books of stories and novels. From 1979 to 1981 four volumes of his collected works was published by the Molodaya Gvardia publishing house.
In 1991 was the Secretary of the Soviet Union of Writers. Died in 2001.
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Note the boldened title. It is probable that for the Roadblock, team members had to write the word "Chusovsky Worker" because honestly, Anton Chekhov has no direct link to Krasnoyarsk. What I believe would happen for this leg is:
Teams arrive on Krasnoyarsk
RB with speed reading - must form the words Chusovsky Worker
Go to place associated with writer of Chusovsky Worker - Orthodox Church in Ovsyanka
Detour
U-turn afterwards?
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I'm going to stick with CHECKOV CHEKHOV (opps!) because it fits the evidence. There is no E in Chusovsky and not enough letter boards to spell out "Chusovsky Worker"
puddin:
In the video preview Mark & Michael are seen looking for the construct Detour, which they can't find. Anyway, they are spotted here at the wood stack. So did they change minds ....or?
DrRox:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 02, 2009, 02:16:39 PM ---
his "warm Siberia".
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That's a reference to Chekhov's estate/home in Yalta.
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