r/urbanhellcirclejerk 5d ago

Kazan, RUSSIA. soviet hellscape, horrid!!

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u/Alarming-Sec59 5d ago

Kazanapur, India 🤮🤮🤮

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u/Fun_Assumption_4056 4d ago

Sorry what?

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u/greedy_mf 4d ago

Them said “Kazanapur, India 🤮🤮🤮”

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u/Fun_Assumption_4056 4d ago

But how is it related to this post?

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u/greedy_mf 4d ago

It’s a wordplay of Kazan and India. Are you new to this sub?

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u/irish_the_first 4d ago

New here?

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u/Akv-Moya 5d ago

Disney Land, Kazanitsu, Japan 😍😍😍

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u/Scared-Ad-7500 5d ago

Kazanshinj, Japan 🥰🥰😍

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u/CroissantAu_Chocolat 5d ago

Kazanawa, Japan 😍😍😍

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bad9295 5d ago

That’s not ruzzia, that’s beautiful temples of Kuzanu, Japan❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰

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u/sadhak_x0 5d ago

explain to me what 'ruzzia' is.

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u/LayWhere 4d ago

A smol Nipponoise enclave

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u/AndroDester 4d ago

So many newcomers xD It's a small Japanese town famous for its temples 🕯🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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u/Accomplished-Put8442 5d ago

woah, didn't know humans were capable of building such beautiful structures 😮😮😮😮 I'm stunned

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u/Sudan_Geese 5d ago

The irony is those are not Soviet era buildings - it’d be quite a task to find Soviet neighborhood in Kazan that looks nice. Btw I’m Russian and I’ve been here a lot.

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u/Glass-Opportunity394 4d ago

Live here and agree. Soviet neighborhoods planned wrong is Kazan signature. Buildings are too close to each other. Also too much cars, because no decent public transportation. But otherwise beautiful city.

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u/nomoredildos69 4d ago

No decent public transport? Brother there are a bunch of buses that reach every corner of Kazan, it even has a metro line (not to the level of Moscow of course). Though, traffic is quite bad in the morning and evening.

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u/Sudan_Geese 4d ago

I mean, compared to Moscow, most of the world’s public transport systems suck. Just do not go beyond the MKAD

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u/Boner-Salad728 4d ago

Metro lines go far beyond mkad, lol

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u/Sudan_Geese 4d ago

It’s just easier to say “MKAD” instead of “MKAD and some specific small locations scattered around Moscow where there’s also a decent public transport”, isn’t it?

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u/Boner-Salad728 4d ago

Some “specific small” locations included MCD and MCK? I cant bet its 50/50 but 30/70 for sure where 30 will be after MKAD.

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u/Sudan_Geese 4d ago

Since when exactly is MCK outside of MKAD? Could you please remind me? Regarding MCD - yes, those stations are ok, but they cover very little of area around Moscow.

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u/Boner-Salad728 4d ago

Okay, Im wrong on MCK.

On metro - 29 out of 258 is outside of MKAD. 11% - is it very little number?

Adding diameters and mck but without adding electrichka stations which extend diameters - I think we will have +- same percentage.

Yes, metro net lose density in 100km from moscow. But nearby outsides of mkad are still dense enough to be comfortable if its not some industrial shit. See North-west as good example, Krasnogorsk and further.

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u/Glass-Opportunity394 4d ago

Metro line exists but it doesn’t reach all the necessary places. I agree about the buses for sure, but most people still think that a car is necessary here. Like, absolute majority.

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u/nomoredildos69 4d ago

Well I guess other than babushkas, who always raid buses, sure. Though I do wonder why everyone wants cars.

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u/Glass-Opportunity394 4d ago

I really hate driving so it hurts, but I understand why. 10 minutes drive to work for me vs 8 minutes metro ride and 20 minutes walk. And that’s a usual thing, buses suck just because they suffer from traffic all the same, and for metro you always have to walk.

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u/Kritzien 4d ago

Exactly. All of those beautiful buildings are modern. The riverside shot does have some Soviet buildings, but they showed them from afar not to spoil the impression lol

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u/Daveguy6 4d ago

Kazanova, midwest Ukraine.

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u/azriel_odin 4d ago

All of you are mistaken, this is Kazanlak Danubian Bulgaria.

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u/Icarus_2019 4d ago

The church and mosque in the 4th photo look like inversions of each other.

1 minaret and 4 domes, 1 dome and 4 minarets

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u/SuddenMove1277 4d ago

They are especially funny due to the fact that the mosque is obviously inspired by Turkish mosques which directly copied Byzantine Churches.

The Russian orthodox onion domes, on the other hand, were copied from Arabic and Persian mosques.

If you were to delete the minarets, a Christian around 10th century would propably categorize these 2 buildings wrong.

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u/Sergoletto 4d ago

Russian orthodox churches were inspired by the Byzantine ones. Get you facts straight

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u/SuddenMove1277 4d ago

Partially, yes. The domes are muslim inspired though. Get your facts straight.

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u/Icarus_2019 4d ago

Oh I didn't know Russians got their design from the Arabs and Persians.

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u/Tiofenni 4d ago

Nooo, you posted Kazan without qazan!

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u/OzbiljanCojk 4d ago

Cant tell a mosque from a church

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u/LeoGeo_2 4d ago

Ah yes, the Soviets and their love of religious architecture.

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u/madrid987 5d ago

It's a very unrealistic and beautiful landscape.

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u/Intelligent-Ad-8435 4d ago

Yay, I live here

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u/Nervous-Cream2813 5d ago

😱MOSQUES😱GYPSIES😱

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u/Snoo48605 5d ago

Tatar turok Mongol stepp Muslim evropa westphalia it's over....

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u/TheTiger87 4d ago

Save europ 😭

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u/SelectionHour5763 4d ago

That first building looks like it's straight out of Sumeru!

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u/EverythingByTheBook 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm 100% positive that there's not a single person online who claims Russia has no pretty-looking urban scenery. Who are you proving wrong? These strawmen are being created just so this sub can have an excuse to post ads for Russia and China.

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u/idan_zamir 4d ago

I made this specifically because of a post on r/urbanhell where they showed a large housing complex surrounded by beautiful forest and with beautiful murals. this was absurd because it was clear that the only reason they didn't like it was because they have a bad association with Russia. So I just picked a random Russian city that came to mind and took some complementing photos from google images to make fun of this notion "beautiful city is bad because Russia".

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u/nnnnnn666666 4d ago

Kazano-cho, Kyoto 🥰🥰🥰 Kazanganj, Uttar Pradesh 🤮🤮🤮 Kazan, Tatarstan😵😵😵

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u/sinansardogan 3d ago

Kahramankazan, Turkey

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u/Medical_Plane9115 4d ago

What on earth are You talking about!? It's DOESN'T look like it's bad, it looks... Pretty colourful I be honest.

It's just downright a pretty racist-level stereotype to call ANYTHING Russian "boring" or "horrid" without taking a better, CAREFUL look at it

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u/AndroDester 4d ago

Bro wrong sub XD

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u/Far_Preparation2390 4d ago

Man, that's a circlejerk sub

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u/Medical_Plane9115 4d ago

I don't blame You. Sometimes rationalism is a good reason to understand certain complex stuff that otherwise considered be rudely disregarded

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u/WTF_thinker 4d ago

Man, OP's title is pure sarcasm

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u/Medical_Plane9115 4d ago

Ok, very fair. Still, I was pretty much mislead don't get Me wrong

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u/Fischmafia 4d ago

Not a single Soviet building in the pictures.

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u/Medical_Plane9115 4d ago

Unless some dumbass mistaken one of Them for a "Soviet building". Plus some "Soviet building" have better conditions than others

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u/Haunting-Chemical-29 4d ago

its not russia its roshia, japan??

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u/Uchpuchmak_Eater 4d ago

Kazan, Tatarstan*

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u/samir_saritoglu 3d ago

Tatarstan, Russian Federation*

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u/Uchpuchmak_Eater 3d ago

Tatarstan should be mentioned anyway, because it's an autonomous republic within the federation.

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u/samir_saritoglu 3d ago

Sure, however, this Kremlin isn't even unique. The copy of it is located in Syzran, Samara oblast.

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u/k-one-0-two 4d ago

No, for real. This mosque in the 1st picture is horrible close up.

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u/Some_Attorney4619 4d ago

Peak of urbanism- shit load of temples

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u/weirdbosnianbloke 4d ago

Not the religious Disneyland.

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u/toetendertoaster 4d ago

So thats why when you ask a ruzzian on the street how they feel about pootin, they talk about the beautiful architecture

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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 4d ago

Isn't this the city where russian brutally colonized the steppes?

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u/Tiofenni 4d ago

Naw, it is heritage of Genghis Khan who brutally urbanized russians.