It's not for nothing that I share mostly photos of nature and landscapes, and extol the natural beauty of these places. Our city is a bit ugly in its functionality. It was not built for enjoying life, not for walking through alleys and parks, its original meaning is constant work in harsh natural conditions. Everything must be hardy, durable and functional.
Only twilight and darkness can hide its imperfection. And even more, to give it a completely different look. Contradicting everything around, and therefore so charming, in contrast.
A decade ago, it began to change, in small steps. No one wanted to spend money on this God-forsaken place where mostly simple sailors live. But as I have already said, our city is the gateway to the Arctic. With the melting of the eternal ice and the availability of land at the top of our blue ball, more and more eyes are looking at the other shore. And more and more people are remembering about the city and begin to revive its infrastructure.
We find ourselves in a double contrast. On the one hand, it is the wild harsh nature around, on the other an old abandoned city of the Soviet era. And on the third, new side, it is a powerful modern infrastructure, in the form of titanic bridges, tunnels and roads in the rock, in the rays of LED light.
Sometimes it seems that these areas of new urban development are not from here at all. It's as if someone snatched them from a large metropolis or the near cyber-future and scattered around the districts of our dying town.
They have a strange effect on the locals. Young people are drawn to them, old people avoid. And we, in the rush of work, fly them by cars, as if we are jumping between worlds. Old Town- Nature- New Town. Past-Eternal-Future.
