#WednesdayWalk : ancient artifact and dying village

in Wednesday Walk2 years ago

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This post for Wednesday walk challenge. Walk through the village of Rychkovo, which is located almost on the border between the Samara and Orenburg regions. The village is small, according to the 2010 census - a little less than 400 people. Now even less. Many houses are half abandoned. Perhaps their owners come there only in the summer. Although, apparently, once the village was large, with a large landowner's estate, a large park with a lake and a distillery. Now it is all in ruins.

The title photo is a local landmark. A large metal vat assembled from pieces of metal. Assembled without a single welding seam, only with rivets. But still sealed. This chan, according to local residents, is over 100 years old, it is the same age as the village itself

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Once upon a time, local craftsmen adapted a pipe to a spring so that water would flow into a vat. In winter, respectively, the water does not freeze, and for baptism people plunge into this vat.

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Former kindergarten. Currently not working

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The purpose of this building remains a mystery. Obviously not a residential building - something administrative. Possibly related to the factory. Now abandoned and slowly falling apart

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Landscapes of rural life - the goby is resting on the grass

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I always had a guilty pleasure for the rural life that not many get interest in. It's just the simple life that offers you the minimum needed but which will definitely keep you more sane and stress free than the traffic noise and all kinds of people met while in the urban life

Not everyone will like rural life, according to the opinions of my friends. But what I want to say is that it changes with age, the older a person is, the more thoughts about life in the countryside visit him :) I judge this by myself and by some of my friends :)

Absolutely. Same here 😊

a shame to see the run town buildings but still so interesting

that water feature is amazing just riveted together and yet still water tight

Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)

Such a fading beauty of abandoned and semi-abandoned places... And with this metal structure you are amazed at how they used to do it, and in such unusual ways :)

yes so true