Dom byta

Dom byta, or consumer service centre, is a Soviet invention, created as a part of female emancipation in order to enable them to work by taking household chores off their hands. You could bring your clothes here for washing, mending, ironing and dry-cleaning. Here they would repair and service household appliances etc. There is a Dom Byta in every city, but nowadays they are hosts to numerous little businesses, from flower-sellers and watch-repairs to hairdressers and pawnshops.

Day 2 - Irkutsk

July 24th 2009
We arrived to Irkutsk at around 6 am local time. The train station was the same as a train station in any other city - throngs of loud taxi drivers, some drunk and homeless people, dodgy characters, travelers with various items of luggage. We found a taxi which would take us to our Couchsurfing host - a girl called Lena. Now, Mike had couchsurfed before, when he'd needed to a place ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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