 Entrance to the wonderfully cheap Hotel Tourist, |
 Hotel Tourist, Volgograd |
 View of the River Volga from the hotel |
 Another view of the Hotel Tourist |
 River Volga |
 River Volga, people swimming on the left |
 Mamaeev Kurgan monument to the defenders of Stalingrad |
 The avenue leading up to the monument |
 Mamaeev Kurgan |
 People in middle distance are having their portraits sketched |
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 With hammer and machine gun! |
 Changing the guard in the monument |
 Look - another Citroen in Volgograd ( a C4 actually) |
 Hypermarket in Volgograd |
 View of Volga from Hotel Slovakia, Saratov |
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 Volga from Hotel Slovakia, looking East |
 Central Saratov |
 Central Saratov |
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 Lots of Kamaz trucks |
 Oil pump, common sight in Ural area |
 Just liked the loo! |
 First sign that the Ural mountains are coming |
 Urals on their way |
 First buddings of Urals plus windfarm |
 What does it say? |
 Somewhere on the road to Ufa |
 Approaching Ufa |
 Approaching Ufa, lovely road |
 Opera House, Ufa |
 McDonalds, Ufa |
 Ufa street |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Large wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Shopping centre, Ufa |
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 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Soviet era mural, Ufa. |
 Modern buildings, Ufa |
 Modern buildings, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house detail, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 The covered market, Ufa |
 Just liked the symbols |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Wooden house, Ufa |
 Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
 Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
 Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
 Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
 Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
 Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
 Little street market in Chelyabinsk |
 That's a Stop sign |
 Handy utility in hotel loo in Chelyabinsk |
 Approaching Troitsk, the border town. Smokestacks can just be seen. |
 Queue at Russian/Kazakhstan border |
 Transporter full of old German cars on way to their new Kazakh homes. |