COGH: Chersky photos

[GailXrunning]

Researching our route, I found this article on the town of Chersky/Cherskiy, which is our next destination. It has some impressive photos and a reminiscence on the town’s changing fortunes. (The article was for the London gallery Calvert 22.) Especially amused by the closing comment that ‘there is simply no place to run’!!

calvertjournal.com/features...

[David_G]

Wow, I’m glad we’re running through it virtually, rather than in reality. It looks a bit remote and chilly to me!😳🥶

[GailXrunning in reply to David_G]

And we’re running in the mountains!! 🥶😳

[Charlies1 Graduate10]

Thanks for your research GailXrunning, Great find, great photos!

I have added a link to the page on Chersky:

sites.google.com/view/cogh-...

Keep them coming - it all adds to the interest to know more about the places along the way.

[GailXrunning in reply to Charlies1]

Ahha! So you’ve just added it. I thought I was repeating.

[GailXrunning in reply to Charlies1]

I have found more potential links for our coming journey. To whom/ how should I send them?

[Charlies1 Graduate10 in reply to GailXrunning]

Hi GailXrunning, , just post them up here, everyone will see them that way.

[GailXrunning in reply to Charlies1]

Ok Will do! (Probably when we get closer to the places.)

[GailXrunning]

Haha! Just spotted that this is already on our COGH site!

[JaySeeSkinny Graduate10]

It looks really bleak - not my kind of place at all. But we’re keeping warm by running and walking, enjoying the winter landscapes and looking forward to all the places we’re going to visit over the next months.

[GailXrunning in reply to JaySeeSkinny]

Just imagine running along the track in the final image!

[JaySeeSkinny Graduate10 in reply to GailXrunning]

Yep, that’s where I’m running!

[GailXrunning in reply to JaySeeSkinny]

😎❄️🏔

[RunaroundSue Graduate10 in reply to JaySeeSkinny]

I am reading the Rosie Swale-Pope book.

She found out what cold is!

Definitely best to do this virtually

[LottieMW Ambassador]

Wow! 🥶❄️🏔

[GailXrunning in reply to LottieMW]

Just not enough cold emojis in the library!

[LottieMW Ambassador in reply to GailXrunning]

😂😂😂

[Jericho2332 Graduate10]

What an amazing looking place! So remote, a little spooky!

[GailXrunning]

Reading about the depopulation was striking - the scale of it.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Bleak and beautiful but oh so cold,

[GailXrunning in reply to SueAppleRun]

Minus 23, I believe.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to GailXrunning]

Minus 1 has me wrapped up warm and grumbling

[Granspeed Graduate10]

What a brilliant find @GailXrunning! I was captured right from the little snow-covered chapel onwards. I have been to Russia (not Siberia!!) and those red tablecloths took me right back. And the innocuous looking little glasses that look like water and are so often vodka. 😯😳 And the lovely, hospitable people who always make it a party even when they have very little to share. Thank you.

[GailXrunning in reply to Granspeed]

Lovely to hear of your memories too, and prompted by something as simple as a red tablecloth!

[Frizzbomb67 Graduate10]

Interesting info! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10]

The old saying "being sent to Siberia" the dictator Stalan sent thousands of people there during the 30's and 40's if they did not agree with him.

It looks like a place where you would want to run through very quickly, just as well it's virtual.

I read that article about Chersky/Chersky

the temperature is around - 30C at this time of the year.

[linda9389 Graduate10]

Stunning photos! Nowhere to run huh? That's the power of teamwork 😀

[GailXrunning in reply to linda9389]

😂😁Makes me think that where we’ve already run must be even more remote! And just now checking our map, we’re already well past Cherskiy.

[Hidden]

Amazing, thank you, wow, would love to go on an arctic expedition and see the wildlife 😀

[HevvyH Graduate10]

Great photos. Did anyone find any diamonds or gold?😀

[GailXrunning in reply to HevvyH]

👑💎

[RunaroundSue Graduate10]

Thanks GailXrunning .That looks really interesting. I will read it properly after my run

[Hareshaw-Granny Graduate10]

What an amazing insight into a very unknown place. The pics are very thought evoking. It must be a very challenging place for the few people who now live there. Thanks so much Gail for finding this. 👍