#cherepovets

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District Court in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia

Russian vintage postcard

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Our soldiers | A Red Room report | The Winter Soldier X Black Widow

Note : this story takes place in my winterwidow fiction.

There's element I wish to expend latter on.

Summary : a Red Room scientist is recording his report about one of Soviet Union's greatest weapons

Trigger warning : mention of brainwashing, drugs and physical abuse

Pairing : Bucky Barnes and Natasha Romanoff

• The sound of the scientist's confident footsteps echoed throughout the military complex, from the staff offices to the various underground cells.

The man was in his fifties, balding, an athletic figure offset the scars covering his face and neck, piercing blue eyes hidden behind round, thin glasses. The badge attached to the right side of his blouse presented his face, his position as Doctor and section leader and his name: Nikita Knyazev.

the man was renowned and respected for his calm, his rigor and his strength of conviction, but also feared for his training and interrogation methods as well as some myths and stories told about his time in the war and the Red Room.

Nikita was a man of principle. His own. He never wasted his time in discussions unworthy of his interest, was not close to any of his colleagues, in fact, none of them really dared to approach him. His legend was built on the words and accomplishments of the agents he had dealt with.

The complex was located east of the town of Cherepovets. By 1957, the Military University of Radioelectronics had been established there.

The Red Room had chosen a discreet architecture for its installation, far from official buildings, preferring to be unofficial, the "B-45 site"

• He sat down in front of his computer before taking a tape recorder out of his table drawer. He placed it in front of him, took off his glasses to rub his eyes and then placed a pack of cigarettes on his right. He lit one before starting his recording.

"So. It is February 21, 1978, Doctor Nikita Knyazev and I present to you my report on agents Winter Soldier and Black Widow after their last mission. This took place on January 13, the preparation took place over three weeks. As agreed, the two agents were released from their stasis, which began on October 28, 1977 after another mission order." He paused and wrote: *see report 45-19* on a sheet of paper that he had just taken out.

"As always, it took two full days for the agents to fully regain consciousness from waking up. The Winter Soldier was the first to be injected with the "separation" compound, developed to allow better post-awakening recovery. The Soldier's constants were subsequently monitored before sending a stimulating visual sequence. This lasted approximately 10 minutes, no sign of resistance or rejection was noted."

He paused again. His cigarette now finished, he took the time to think about his next sentence.

"Agent Widow, on the other hand... My team noticed a difference in waking behavior between her and the Winter Soldier. She seemed... more aware. The first visual stimuli report a global understanding of its space, without notable injection or usual medical procedure. She was subjected to the same treatment as the Winter Soldier with particular attention paid to the visual sequences. It's still difficult to explain why and how, but she resisted. She struggled without noticeable damage, her body still too weak from sleep and was quickly brought under control. Two days passed before the usual protocol was put in place: both agents were subjected to a wave of brain shock, the procedure now taking between 5 and 7 minutes. 30 minutes after this, they were each taken to a different room to carry out post-treatment tests. I must say that... the two teams in charge of our agents, men for the Soldier and women for Widow, were not careful...

...verbal and physical humiliation, different methods were applied to make sure that the Winter Soldier and Black Widow were under control. No resistance noted. Both were equipped and briefed on their objective."

A new pause was heard on the tape recorder as the Doctor noted once again: *see applied strategic report M-18* He continued:

"You should know that the mission was an absolute success for our unit. Agents Winter Soldier and Black Widow are two prides of the Red Room and I think, comrades, that this mission is proof of that. Doctor Nikita Knyazev, finished."

• As soon as the recording was cut, the Doctor took a disk from his shirt and inserted it into his computer, loading a video.

The recording began with what appeared to be a surveillance camera. There we saw a room, undoubtedly for scientific purposes, in which there was a device composed of a chair surrounded by a metal support on which there were places to place the arms and the upper body.

The room was empty before three guards entered, accompanied by a woman who was only able to stand thanks to the support of two of the guards. She was placed on the chair, tied up, while the guards dispersed into the room to prepare for a procedure, one of the two, close to the woman, exclaimed: “What did you say?”

He spoke to the woman, her face marked with disorientation and fatigue. The other two approached as the recording captured the sound coming from the woman's voice, it being barely audible:

"...I...James..." The recording cut out as one of the guard ran, shouting Doctor Nikita's name. The latter, still facing his computer, got up and approached one of the windows to the right of his desk. His expression was both questioning and worried. Nobody ever saw him like that. Even he, was suprised by this turn of event.

His eyes focused on a part of the complex below he exclaimed: “Who are you, James?”

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📍Cherepovets

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Skiing in the City Park of Cherepovets. Photo by G. Yefimovsky (Jan. 1955).

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Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904)

Church near Arkhangelsk. 1894. Canvas on wood, oil. 15.8 x 18.8 cm

EXPERT OPINION: VKHNRC named after I.E. Grabarya (expert Goryacheva T.P.), NINCE named after A. Benois (expert Nesterova E.V.)

SIGNATURE: "B" at the bottom right.

PUBLICATIONS: Artist V. Vereshchagin. On The Northern Dvina. On wooden churches. With phototypes. III appendix to the catalog of paintings by V.V. Vereshchagin. M., 1895. S. 15-16. (Fill.1).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The artist attached great importance to the design of frames for his works and even created sketches for them himself. The landscape is framed in a richly carved frame. Its ornamental solution is typical for "vereshchagin" frames framing the artist's works, including those from museum collections.

The work dates back to the late period of the painter's work, when in 1894 he traveled around the Northern Dvina, studying the local wooden churches. The artist reported in his diary: "I have long wanted to get acquainted with the wooden churches in the North, unceremoniously destroyed from year to year..." On May 29, 1894, the artist wrote: "... I admired the distant neighborhoods that broke off in all directions. Upstairs, through the young forest of the pine forest, you can see two wooden churches from which there was a native antiquity." Creativity of V.V. Vereshchagin has always been educational, he did a lot to study and preserve the traditions, ethnography and history of the places where he visited, and, most importantly, accurately recorded the monuments that interested him. The presented sketch recorded the churches of the XVII century in the village of Belaya Sluda on the Mashkurka River, Solvychegodsky district, Vologda province.

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) is a Russian painter, writer, one of the most famous battle artists of the second half of the XIX century. He was born in Cherepovets, Novgorod province. He studied at the Naval Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg (1853-1860), at the Imperial Academy of Arts with A. Vol Markova and A. E. Beydemann (1860-1863), at the Paris Academy of Arts with J. L. Jerome and A. Bida (1864-1866). In 1884 he was elected a professor of the Academy of Arts, but refused this title, striving for independence from the official direction in art. He traveled a lot - in the Caucasus and Danube (1863-1865), in the North of Russia (1887-1888, 1894), was in Cuba and the Philippines (1901-1902), in Japan (1903).

Moscow Auction House

[zvyozdochka]

In the workshop of the Cherepovets Still Mill, 1990s.

[aviaposter]

Sukhoi Superjet 100-95 Severstal Avia

Registration: RA-89135 Named: Evgenii Preobrazhenskii Type: 100-95B Engines: 2 × SaM146 Serial Number: 95181 First flight: Jan 16, 2019

Severstal Avia is a Russian airline and operator of the Cherepovets International Airport in the Vologda Region. The airline was founded in 1997 and has been operating scheduled flights since 1998.

Currently, the carrier operates regular and charter passenger flights, as well as scheduled business flights from Cherepovets to various cities in Russia, CIS countries and Europe. The airline operates over 80 flights per week. Its main passengers are private passengers on business trips, as well as Severstal's business partners.

The company's fleet consists of Bombardier CRJ200 and Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft. Russian-made SSJ100 regional aircraft entered the Severstal Avia fleet in 2018. At the beginning of 2020, an aircraft with the number RA-89135 entered their list. It was the first Superjet equipped with composite aerodynamic wingtips to enter commercial service.

"Saberlets", as these tips became known, made it possible to increase fuel efficiency and improve the take–off and landing characteristics of the aircraft by increasing the wingspan, which became 29.7 meters, instead of the standard 27.8. Currently, four Superjets are flying in the company's fleet, two of which are equipped with Saberlets.

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February 4, 2020

As part of his visit to the Cherepovets Chemical-Engineering College, Vladimir Putin met with the public. The discussion focused on training personnel for the economy and social sector, in particular ways to modernise the system of secondary vocational and higher education, develop children’s talents, provide support for teachers, and popularise science.

During a trip to Cherepovets, Vladimir Putin visited the Chemical-Engineering College and had a look at its operation. In particular, the President visited the wiring and welding shops, as well as the electrical machinery and maintenance labs. Vladimir Putin was updated on the implementation of the school-college-university model of education and attended the presentation of a programme for training professionals for the economy and social sector.

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Real street scenes with a ZAZ-965 car in the city of Cherepovets, USSR. Vintage footage from 1963

The film shows Zaporozhets ZAZ-965. In the film you can also see: trucks GAZ-51- 0:271:021:462:202:282:323:08 ZIL-164 - 1:201:422:04 passenger cars Moskvich 410 3:50 GAZ M-20 “Pobeda” 1:42 bus LiAZ-158V 1:291:381:51 GZA-651 1:38 UAZ-450A 2:08 The Zaporozhets ZAZ-965 is a Soviet minicar produced from 1960 to 1963 аt the Zaporozhye Automobile Plant, Zaporozhye, Ukraine. This car had modifications with an engine power of 27 hp and 30 hp. A total of 322,166 cars of all modifications were produced. Cherepovets ([tɕɪrʲɪpɐˈvʲets]) is a city in the Vologda region of Russia. By the early 1960s, its population exceeded 100,000 inhabitants. Cherepovets is an important industrial center in northwestern Russia, mostly known as the country's largest steel manufacturing plant. Music Chocolate Cookie Jam - An Jone

P.S. Russia's biggest secret can be seen in these shots: The movie that Russophiles, Communists, Socialists, Right-wing populists and all the other idiots useful to the Kremlin are hiding from you...

[goalhofer]

2023-24 St. Louis Blues Roster

Wingers

#12 Kevin Hayes; Jr. (Boston, Massachusetts)*

#13 Alexey Toropchenko (Moscow, Russia)

#15 Jakub Vrána (Prague, Czech Republic)

#20 Brandon Saad (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

#63 Jake Neighbours (Airdrie, Alberta)

#42 Samu Kapanen (Kuopio, Finland)

#79 Sammy Blais (Montmagny, Quebec)

#89 Pavel Buchnevich (Cherepovets, Russia)

Centers

#10 Brayden Schenn (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) C

#18 Robert Thomas (Aurora, Ontario) A

#25 Jordan Kyrou (Mississauga, Ontario)

#59 Nikita Alexandrov (Burgwedel, Germany)

#70 Oskar Sundqvist (Boden, Sweden)*

Defensemen

#4 Nick Leddy (Eden Prairie, Minnesota)

#6 Marco Scandella (Montreal, Quebec)

#41 Robert Bortuzzo (Thunder Bay, Ontario)

#47 Torey Krug (Livonia, Michigan)

#48 Scott Perunovich (Hibbing, Minnesota)

#55 Colton Parayko (St. Albert, Alberta) A

#72 Justin Faulk (South St. Paul, Minnesota) A

#75 Tyler Tucker (Thunder Bay, Ontario)

Goalies

#30 Joel Hofer (Winnipeg, Manitoba)**

#50 Jordan Binnington (Toronto, Ontario)

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Gregory Winter, 54, was arrested in September 2022, after posting an outraged social-media comment about the Russian army’s atrocities in Bucha and Irpin. “Everything we already knew about from Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Syria has been repeated in Ukraine,” Winter wrote. “This is the end of ‘the Russian civilization.’ No one is ever going to fall for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Everybody will know that this is just a cover for Aleppo, Grozny, and Bucha.” Winter is now on trial for spreading “fake news” about the Russian military. His lawyers think he has a high chance of being sent to a prison colony, but Winter, who is diabetic, doesn’t think he would survive in those conditions. To prepare for the worst, he is trying to find new homes for the nine cats he has rescued from the streets over the years. Here’s the story of Gregory Winter and his cats, as told by the independent Russian media The New Tab.

Gregory Winter is a human rights activist from Cherepovets, a city in the Vologda region of northern Russia. Formerly the head of a local branch of the NGO For Human Rights, Winter is known for his outspoken, sometimes provocative presence in the local media. He is used to the wrath of the Russian authorities, too, having been jailed in the past, and threatened with physical violence for campaigning to preserve his region’s forests from logging.

Gregory also has a passion for animal welfare. He grew up with parents who were constantly bringing home cats and dogs from the street, caring for sick animals, and trying to get them back on their feet. When he found himself living alone as an adult, Gregory started doing the same. About 20 years ago, he already had 12 cats living in his apartment. “You can’t just walk past a cat who’s been tormented by sadists and lies dying in the street,” he told The New Tab. “So the number of my animals rarely got smaller. It would only happen when a sick animal had to be euthanized.”

Winter only adopts new animals if he is sure that they won’t make it without human help. This is what happened with his cat Vasya, who had been dropped off at a dog shelter in a plastic bag. For six months, Gregory spoon-fed the emaciated cat. When Vasya got back on his feet, he unexpectedly turned into a fierce “godfather” to the rest of Winter’s gang of felines.

Another cat, named Susu, had her hind leg torn off by someone who then left her to die in the foyer of an apartment building. By some miracle, the vets managed to reattach her limb, but the traumatized cat spent three years hiding under Winter’s desk, without ever coming near him.

Susu might never have become attached to Winter if the Russian authorities didn’t arrest him and put him in jail. In 2020, he was charged with spreading misinformation about COVID-19. (The human rights organization Agora has pointed out that the new Russian law against COVID-related misinformation was frequently instrumentalized to persecute the government’s critics.) In jail, Winter was brutally beaten. Meanwhile, his friends were caring for his cats.

The cats proved to be so attached to Winter that two of them died: one before he was released, and the other not long afterwards.

In September 2022, Winter became a criminal suspect once again, this time for a social-media comment about the Russian army’s atrocities in Ukraine. After some time in custody, Winter was put under house arrest. He is certain, however, that this will only last for a couple of months — until the next court hearing, to be precise. His lawyers think his chance of getting a prison sentence very high.

Winter has no close family members in the area. His adult son lives abroad, and because he is subject to being drafted into the Russian army, Winter would never even think of asking him to come to Russia for his cats. He is also pessimistic about his own chances of surviving in prison: “I have a complicated form of diabetes,” Winter says, “and if they put me in prison, I’ll never get out. They don’t have any medications there. One way or another, I must figure out the fate of my cats.”

The cat named Susu has already been adopted by a family from Yaroslavl, but Gregory’s other cats don’t seem to interest anyone in Cherepovets. Their owner hopes that Russians from other regions might come forward to adopt them. “There are only nine cats at the moment,” he says,

and all of them are sweet, well-trained, and unfussy with food. I’m asking people who love animals to help me. My friends will bring the cats to Moscow, St. Petersburg, or to other cities in Central Russia. Some of the cats can do well in a suburban home. My cat Baldie is an excellent mouser. Vasya can be an excellent working cat, he has just the right temper for guarding a house.

If you can help with an adoption of one or more of Gregory Winter’s cats, please send a message to The New Tab on Telegram.

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📍Cherepovets

[sovietpostcards]

September 1 in Cherepovets. Photo by V. Myasnikov (1961).

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KODAK COLORPLUS 4 (34) By Slava Terebov https://flic.kr/p/2qFjBJn

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👩‍💻 In Cherepovets, 70-year-old tram tracks were dug up during repairs. The old tracks were discovered during the reconstruction of the road at the intersection of Mira and Lomonosov streets.

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Happy Birthday 🎉

23 March 1990: Mark Barberio, Severstal Cherepovets

23 March 1991: Erik Haula, New Jersey Devils

23 March 1993: Laurent Brossoit, Chicago Blackhawks

& Dmitrij Jaškin, Ak Bars Kazan

23 March 1994: Oskar Sundqvist, St. Louis Blues

23 March 1996: Joel Kiviranta, Colorado Avalanche

& Vendula Přibylová, MoDo Hockey

23 March 2003: Daria Gredzen, Biryusa Krasnoyarsk