Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
On my last full day in Petrozavodsk, I recorded a video of my walk from the dormitory I lived in to the main campus of Petrozavodsk State University. Because it was impromptu and I talked for an hour without any preparation, I made some mistakes, some of which are noted here (I didn't realize Youtube annotations no longer exist and I don't want to add a few notes in my editor and then have this take another 7 hours to export). Please note the following:
6:50 It's actually Ulitsa Lomonosova
9:34 It's a wolf lol
10:14 Again, the dog finds a wolf, not another dog
20:00 Вкуснее, not лучше
21:51 That comment didn't quite come out how I wanted it to and wasn't meant to be mean-spirited at all. Usman is my dude!
37:44 I was correct at first, it is Университетский городок
42:34 I have been informed by my friend Anya that Prospekt Aleksandra Nevskovo is not named after Nevsky himself, but for the Aleksandr Nevsky Cathedral further down on the street (similar to how Pushkinskaya in Petrozavodsk is not named after beloved poet Aleksandr Pushkin, but in honor of the city's cannon (pushka) production)
47:45 The one exception? Mustard to add to your holodets
49:19 Day of the People's Unity, which "commemorates the popular uprising which expelled Polish-Lithuanian occupation forces from Moscow in November 1612 ... According to a poll in 2007, only 23 percent of Russians know the name of the holiday, up from 8 percent in 2005" (from Wikipedia
49:42 I was right! It is the Lososinskaya River
On my last full day in Petrozavodsk, I recorded a video of my walk from the dormitory I lived in to the main campus of Petrozavodsk State University. Because it was impromptu and I talked for an hour without any preparation, I made some mistakes, some of which are noted here (I didn't realize Youtube annotations no longer exist and I don't want to add a few notes in my editor and then have this take another 7 hours to export). Please note the following:
6:50 It's actually Ulitsa Lomonosova
9:34 It's a wolf lol
10:14 Again, the dog finds a wolf, not another dog
20:00 Вкуснее, not лучше
21:51 That comment didn't quite come out how I wanted it to and wasn't meant to be mean-spirited at all. Usman is my dude!
37:44 I was correct at first, it is Университетский городок
42:34 I have been informed by my friend Anya that Prospekt Aleksandra Nevskovo is not named after Nevsky himself, but for the Aleksandr Nevsky Cathedral further down on the street (similar to how Pushkinskaya in Petrozavodsk is not named after beloved poet Aleksandr Pushkin, but in honor of the city's cannon (pushka) production)
47:45 The one exception? Mustard to add to your holodets
49:19 Day of the People's Unity, which "commemorates the popular uprising which expelled Polish-Lithuanian occupation forces from Moscow in November 1612 ... According to a poll in 2007, only 23 percent of Russians know the name of the holiday, up from 8 percent in 2005" (from Wikipedia
49:42 I was right! It is the Lososinskaya River
