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A new (old-looking) dacha in Vologda.

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The many roofs and domes of Vologda

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Some more Luzhniki bus terminal

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I realized that Luzhniki needed a bus terminal.

This one is - style-wise - inspired by the Černý Most one in Prague.

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Started rebuilding the Tukayev mosque/library (based on the old mosque in Ufa) as well

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Some of the inspiration behind the Vologda world lots. I say inspiration - because I'm bad at re-creating 1:1 real buildings, and I feel like a lot of the buildings and their uses need to be "simmified" to fit with the sims style but anyway - the lots are mostly not finished anyway, there is still a lot of tweaking and furnishing to do:

The Gallery (Tretyakov Gallery)

2. Lubyanka (Lubyanka Building - former KGB headquarters, nowadays FSB headquarters). In the Sims version, it's going to be a vampire club, with some dark secrets (prison cells, interrogation rooms etc) in the basement.

3. Theater/cinema (Samara Theatre)

4. One of the palaces owned by the super-rich (Petrovsky Palace)

5. A dacha (Boris Pasternak's dacha)

6. An exemplary countryside house (Ruska Dača near Ljubljana)

7. Old-style wooden church in the countryside

8. Swimming pool Luzhniki (Olympic swimming pool in Luzhniki, Moscow)

9. Spa/swimming pool/gym/recreational center (Hotel Diament, Ustroń, Poland)

10. Hotel International (Hotel International, Prague)

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It's coming together nicely.

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Started a completely new lot in the Vologda world, a sanatorium/spa/pool.

Inspired by the grand wellness/vacation resorts of the 1970s-1980s, specifically these "pyramids" in Ustroń, Poland.

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Actually opened back my Vologda save after such a loooong time. I've got a job now, and finally moved the old computer with the sims 3 to my new apartment , and I'm back to playing the game as a way of relaxing in the evening so who knows. This world might end up finished one day?

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Kingston, the workers’ quarter in Lost Heaven

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i always love when the era-appropriate cars drive around the city

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Dreamy dreamy Chinatown, Almond eyes of brown Hearts seems light and life seems bright In dreamy Chinatown

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Bertone’s Auto Service in Lost Heaven, inspired, of course, by the location of the same name in Mafia and Mafia: Definitive edition. I’m back home for Christmas, which means back at the PC with my Sims save, so I can play/build a little bit :)

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the Zavesky Observatory which actually serves as the gallery, inspired by the observatory of the same name from Mafia 2:

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work on the Lost Heaven sanatorium

(it’s just a normal hospital but it would seem dumb to have so many stairs leading towards a hospital, so....it’s a sanatorium)

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One of the two “official wedding venues” in Vologda. This small wooden “church” is less pompous than the St. Basil’s Cathedral in the city center; and sims can get married there and actually have a lunch/dinner with their wedding guests as well.

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Finally got to building the theater in Vologda, The color and style are inspired by the Samara theater:

But there’s still a lot of work to do!