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Soviet Metro stations
Stunning photographs of Soviet Metro Stations from across the former states of the USSR and Russia itself, many of which have never previously been documented.
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The bus stops were just waiting for pictures
Its 157 images are the products of 30,000 kilometres covered by car, bike, taxi and (of course) bus from 2003-2006 (when he lived in Kazakhstan), 2008, and when most motivated for making a book, three weeks in the summer of 2013 in Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia and Abkhazia. [Christopher Herwig] also returned to Belarus in 2014 and 2015 for a few updates to his book. He had to fork over about $200 to a taxi driver in Abkhazia who accused Herwig of being a Georgian spy. Herwig secured his memory card safely in his underwear just in case he lost his camera, too. Sadly I have nothing to show from Azerbaijan. I was there in 2008, but was not specifically hunting bus stops. Also, the few bus stops stops I have from Russia did not impress me so much, so they are not in the book.
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Soviet superpower: why Russia has the world's most beautiful bus stops
In western Europe, the bus stop is the most humble of building types, a meanly utilitarian structure that adds little or nothing to the roadside. But in the old Soviet empire, from the shores of the Black Sea to the Kazakh steppe, the norm is \"wild going on savage\", as Jonathan Meades writes in a beautiful new photobook featuring 159 bus stops, each illuminating \"the Soviet empire's taste for the utterly fantastical\". The project began in 2002, when [Christopher Herwig] decided to cycle from London to Stockholm, to live with his girlfriend. \"Taking a bike on Ryanair,\" he explains, \"would have cost four times the price of a seat.\" As he set off, he gave himself a challenge: to photograph something interesting every hour of the way. A particular roadside feature began to catch his eye, and so began an obsessive quest. \"It wasn't until I got into the Baltic countries,\" he says, \"that they jumped out at me. Within the first 50km of Lithuania, I noticed these peculiar bus stops everywhere.\" Twelve years and more than 30,000km later, Herwig was able to choose his favourite bus stops from 14 former Soviet countries.It seems the \"bus pavilions\", as they were respectably known, provided a much needed outlet for creative energy, which was otherwise stifled. \"It was practically impossible to express oneself,\" Armen Sardarov, a Belarusian architect who designed close to 100 bus stops in the Soviet era, says in the book. \"It was a time of monotony in architecture.\"
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St. Joe man caught after chase
The incident began when Iowa Tribal Police in northern Brown County, Kan., tried to pull Mr. [Christopher Herwig] over for speeding, according to Brown County Sheriff Lamar Shoemaker. Mr. Herwig, driving an older-model Ford Bronco II, then eluded police and fired four shots from a shotgun at a pickup and two residences near Redbug Street in the reservation. While there was one person standing outside one of the houses, no one was injured, Mr. Shoemaker said.
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Soviet bus stops
The stereotypes were all there: concrete apartment blocks, generous vodka shots, towering statues of Lenin. Occasionally a local taxi driver would become addicted to the hunt too, developing an appreciation for something he had forgotten existed, and together we would careen round the Soviet landscapes, racing the setting sun in search of \"just one more bus stop.\"
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Obituaries, Oct. 2, 2005
Survivors: a son, Jerry Max Hailey, and wife, Mildred, St. Joseph; a brother, Ervin Dean Giffin, Guilford, Mo.; four sisters, Velma Anderson, Guilford; Georgie Schmitt, St. Joseph; Ermel Holcomb, Overland Park, Kan.; and Darlene Wallace, Livermore, Calif.; a sister-in-law, Dorothy Price, King City; grandchildren, Carol Ferguson, and husband, Robert, King City; Jerry and James Muff, Darlington, Mo.; Lori Jackson, and husband, Chris; Shannon Hailey, and wife, Gail; Becky Hailey, and fiance, Brian McClintick, all of St. Joseph; and Sue Bell Ostroski, Detroit, Mich.; great-grandchildren, Joshua and Samuel Burgess, King City; Jake Muff, Carrollton, Mo.; Chelsey and Ethan Jackson, Kinsey Hailey, and Tyler and Austin Cordonnier, all of St. Joseph; Brittany Bell, Detroit; Alissa and David Bell, Clawson, Mich.; and a great-great-grandchild, Brendan Bell.
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