Shadow Hunters SMASh Contest - Shadow Hunting On The Morning Streets Of Kirov

Greetings, friends!
7 a.m. I have about an hour to come to the office and start working. July is coming to an end, there are no clouds in the sky for 2 weeks, absolutely no rain, it's hot during the day, but it can be cool at night. Why am I talking about the weather? Everything is simple. Now is the most ideal comfortable time for a walk from about 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and in the evening after 6 p.m. for about 2 hours, then it will be dark. It seems to me that I have never walked through the morning streets of the city this month. All this contributed to the fact that this morning, before starting work, I went for a walk and shadow hunting.

I started shadow hunting on Spasskaya Street. Then I turned onto the central city square and saw that, for some reason, a fence had been installed in front of the regional Administration building. It took me a moment to figure out the reason for its installation. It turned out that the renovation of the monument to Lenin had begun. What's happening? It is known that in all cities of Russia, there are still such monuments, sometimes even there are several of them.. For example, in the city of 30,000 people where I live, I know of at least 3 similar monuments, and one of them is also currently under repair. What's happening? The USSR died 34 years ago, and I have never seen Lenin's monuments repaired. Is this a tendency to raise the image of Lenin and the ideology of socialism-communism? It was with these thoughts that I left the square.

The pigeons decided to drink water from the upper bowl of the fountain. The water probably tastes better there than in the lower tier.

Three years ago, similar wooden boxes with trees and flowers appeared on our streets. But apparently, no one is watching these flowers, and they are overgrown with ordinary grass.

These flowers were not planted by the city improvement service. These flowers are tended by people who want to see the area in front of their building beautiful.

This cheerful company sits on this bench in front of the Children's Puppet Theater 24/7, i.e., 365 days a year, regardless of the weather: rain, heat, frost, and snow.

This little kikimora also stands in its place every day. There are 7 such small kikimores in our city. I know the exact location of the 3 figures. In winter, caring people put warm little coats on them.

While walking, I turned onto Molodaya Gvardiya Street. This is the old part of the city, back in the 80s of the last century, there were wooden houses on the street. But in the 90s, they began to dismantle them and build stone houses. These were the years of freedom in architecture, and after faceless houses, people began experimenting with house shapes.
But it's not the house that interests me here, it's the flowers. They are planted on the north side of the house, and the Sun's rays never touch them.

After Molodaya Gvardiya Street, I went out onto central Lenin Street, but decided to turn off it onto the quieter Orlovskaya Street. I tried to stay on the shady sides of the streets because the sun's rays were getting hot.
So, if you look across the street diagonally, there were 2 wooden two-story houses in this place back in March. Now they are gone, which means that a new house will be built on this place soon. What will it be like? An apartment building for several families or a building will be a single-family house. Rich people like to build houses on such streets because it is a comfortable place to live.

This is the last wooden house on this street. Although I'm lying - there are 2 such houses left. They will be dismantled soon.
I wanted to tell you about Orlovskaya Street along its entire length back in the winter, but I couldn't put my thoughts in a beautiful order, and I couldn't put the words into sentences. For such a review, I need to study the history of each house. Maybe I'll do it someday.

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