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and welcome to our family's web home!
The
actual one is in KIROV, a.k.a. VYATKA, in the East of the European
part of Russia (more precisely, 58°30'19.25'' North / 49°41'48.65''
East, clearly seen with the Google Earth).
Here
are our highlights of the year 2010 (for larger pictures
and more info please click on the thumbnail image):
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23.12.10
- Igor brought a big natural Christmas tree from the neighbouring
wood. The operation being illegal, it involved skiing late at
night, in the full-moon light.
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10.12.10
- Ilya presented his project on tin soldiers at the regional conference
First Steps - 2010 and got a finalist's diploma. Real tin
soldiers had been cast by Igor using the mould made with the aid
of a mould grinder that was specially bought for the project.
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10.12.10
- Igor accompanied an Italian specialist to Ukhtym in the neighbouring
Komi republic.
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December
- Ilya's passion for cats resulted in a temporary adoption, by
Igor's parents, of a stray kitten, Busik.
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29.11.10
- Igor, after a visit to Kirovo-Chepetsk, arranged a meeting of
the Italian consultant and his client, a potential investor, with
the deputy governor of the region.
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26.11.10
- Ilya is 10 years old. The party was held the next evening.
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06.11.10
- The lock on the garage where SAAB 99 is kept was found
damaged and had to be substituted. No further attempts of breaking
in.
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25.-26.10.10
- Igor carried out simultaneous interpreting at the international
conference on renewable energy organized by the regional government
at his university.
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24.10.10
- Ilya participated in the city Intellectual Marathon in
Kirov, won the 4th place.
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23.10.10
- Igor attended the opening of the Legend sculpture organized
by his mobile operator.
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10.10.10
- Igor, Ilya and Igor's parents visited the site of mother's native
village as well as relatives in Bydanovo and Belaya Kholunitsa
100 km from Kirov.
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04.10.10
- Igor accompanied the Italian consultant in Vakhrushi and Kirovo-Chepetsk.
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27.09.
- 02.10.10 - Igor interpreted for an Italian consultant at
a furniture enterprise in Nakhabino near Moscow (yet staying in
the city).
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27.09.10
- Ilya started attending preparatory courses at the Kirov Lyceum
of Economics and Law.
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06.-25.09.10
- Ilya stayed with Igor/Helen (substituting each other for 2 or
3 days, when free from work) at the sanatorium Solnechny near
Kirovo-Chepetsk. Collecting mushrooms for the first time that
summer.
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01.09.10
- Ilya started the 4th form.
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August
- Igor made a cabinet with sliding mirror doors in the toilet
- to store sundries and visually expand the cramped room. Also
completed a small workbench in the loggia and reconstructed an
overhead shelf in the corridor.
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05.08.10
- Igor and Ilya joined the world community of treasure hunters
by buying a sophisticated metal detector: Garrett
ACE 250 with a big coil. The first field tests yielded
a small stone-like ferrous object - probably a meteorite.
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31.07.10
- Igor's first encounter with the road 'robocop'. It became known
only a month later, with the arrival of a bill for speed driving.
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30.07.10
- Record temperature: + 39°C in the sun - a protracted heat
wave. The air conditioner was on all the days through.
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June
- Igor translated, into English, the brochure Passport of the
Kirov Region published by the regional government. Its zipped
pdf version is available here
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14.06.10
- Igor watched an open-air concert of the legendary Soviet/Russian
rock group Mashina vremeni (Time Machine) right from his
university department.
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12.06.10
- Igor and Ilya attended the City Day celebration in Kirov.
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06.06.10
- Igor received, thanks to a Russian friend in Canada, a copy
of the book for which he did the major part of translation work
years ago - On the Comic and Laughter by the Soviet scholar
Vladimir Propp. The English version was published by the University
of Toronto Press on November 7, 2009 and is still available
from the Amazon,
Barnes
& Noble, and Books-A-Million.
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30.05.-05.06.10
- Igor interpreted for an Italian consultant at 3 furniture enterprises
in Moscow.
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23.05.10
- A bicycle was bought for Ilya. He learned to ride it with full
confidence within a week.
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22.05.10
- Helen's father died. Helen and Igor attended the funeral on
26.05.10.
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and 25.04.10 - Igor and Ilya visited Igor's father at the
Avitek sanatorium in Kirov, famous for its winter garden.
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22.03.10
- Ilya had his appendix ablated at the Regional Children's
Hospital, stayed there for 7 days, the first day and night
with Igor.
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07.03.10
- Ilya and Igor visited an exhibition of tropical butterflies
in Kirov, bought a living Morpho to keep at home.
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21.02.10
- A record freezing temperature: - 35°C at night.
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14.02.10
- Igor attended the Russia's Ski Track mass ski race not
far from home
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13.02.10
- Ilya presented his research into the origin of the river name
Chumovitsa at the regional contest I am a Researcher at
the Kirovo-Chepetsk Gymnasium No. 1 and got a prize-winner's diploma.
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January
- Igor translated, into English, some info on the regional economy
for the government web
site.
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01.01.10
- Unlimited low-cost (ca. USD 8 per month) Internet access started
via a different provider, in addition to the 50 Mb per month limit
(just for the email) via the old one.
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