I laughed so hard on the part of "one station and zero kilometers". I was caught completely off guard. I was expecting something like a 3-5 km line or something...
The metro station/ pedestrian underpass and the abandoned metro bridge tells me that sufficient money was budgeted to complete the line but most of it was lost to corruption.
Not just corruption, but also complete chaos Funding was approved and planning & prep undertaken from 1986; the start of underground construction began in 1992 only a couple months after the collapse of the USSR. The last significant work to be done was the completion of the bridge in 2005
It was very smart of the Omsk city government to realize how cost effective bargin is even compared to rail traffic and to convert the convetional metro into a gondoliero-service.
@@fa18superhornetLooked the same for me. It's an experimental Search from Comments feature, RUclips decides when it's on, you can't control it, only the channel owner can remove these links if they want to.
You're back! I remember the original video, it was during the peak of the pandemic and I discovered Letov's music via it! I was planning to visit one day, but unfortunately history went on another path. I still love Letov's music, and I wish I could get "A Long Happy Life" on LP, which nowadays is unobtainable where I live. I hope you're doing well.
It could be argued that a tram that cannot withstand freezing temperatures, would be a bit of a design flaw, if that tram was intended to be used in Russia.
This is a video that shows how good are the old stuff. I live in Bucharest‚ Romania‚ and here are still being used old trams on most lines‚ and those still keep going somehow.
They’re essentially metal boxes with electrical motors and metal wheels. Very few moving parts. If they don’t rot away, motors are serviced and wheels replaced they work forever.
I doubt the V3A-93 will run for many more years in Bucharest... the oldest is only 31 years old, while these KTM-5 are at least 10 years older. Of course, the Tatra T4R (which is quite similar with the T3SU that can stil be found in Russia) could last for another 50 years with proper paint job every 10 years or so.
Excelent Production. Long live the Tram workers. Those bad politicians need to be FIRED for their corruption! Again, great work! Keep us posted on your work!
I'm from Russia. Only in Moscow, St.Petersburg and Kazan the metro systems construction is in active progress. In Samara and Nizhny Novgorod there is some slow construction process. In Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Volgograd no more activities on construction... Omsk, Chelyabinsk and Krasnoyarsk construction cancelled.
As for Krasnoyarsk, they've recently resumed construction, but downgraded it to a light rail system (akin to the one in Volgograd). Some streets in the center have been closed due to construction.
When this video was suggested, I thought the video was somehow familiar in the presentation style. Thanks for making new video. I was right this video is from a known but forgotten channel.
@@RailwaysoftheWorld1И прославил её своими фотографиями Илья Варламов, если я правильно помню. Он точно в районе Линий снимал, там по-прежнему ситуация похожая.
You're alive! This is a reupload right? I remember watching this video a few years ago, but with a different (female) voice over. Edit: I should've watched it in full before commenting :D
Thank you. Thank you. Very nice video. Romantic. I hope the beautiful and rich Russian culture will not spread further than YT. I am very happy to live far away to you. Have a nice day.
Если бы Москва не высасывала как пылесос всю прибыль омских предприятий-в Омске давно уже было бы построено метро. Строительство метро остановилось, когда Сибнефть (на налоги которой и строилось метро и штаб-квартира которой находилась в Омске) не "выкупили" бы у Абрамовича и не объединили с Роснефтью. Штаб-квартира которой была в Москве. С тех пор все доходы от омской нефтедобычи переработки потекли в Москву... Большинство омских предприятий зарегистрированы в Москве. И налоги все уплывают туда. Поэтому Омск такой нищий. А насчёт ненужности метро в Омске может писать только тот, кто не знает что такое омский климат.. И тот, кто никогда в январе на пронизывающим любую одежду ветру не стоял на омской остановке в ожидании трамвая. А так всё правильно. Комфорт-только для москвичей. А за МКАДом живёт, по мнению руководства страны, только скотина... Деньги, конечно нужно обязательно отправлять в европейские банки. А не тратить их на развитие инфраструктуры своих (или для правительства не своих?) городов...
Шутка про танк классная, но я все же подушню. 71-407 собирается не на основных мощностях Уралвагонзавода, а на Уралтрансмаше и делит производство не с танками Т-90, а с САУ Мста-М
We have too much theft in electric transport, in Belarus and Ukraine trams and trolleybuses are being developed, but here they are only being closed down
Volgograd has a tram tunnel, so the idea isn't unheard of in Russia. But the existing tunnel segments are fairly short and disconnected, and building the tunnel portals and on-ramps for trams to go through would be very expensive for a city that can barely maintain its current trackage.
The footage looked so familiar... I was just expecting to hear Egor Letov any moment. The "original" video made me start listening to his songs. From what I see, the tram system in Omsk is in a very poor condition. It looks good for tram enthusiasts, but I'm sure the locals wouldn't mind getting new buses instead of the ancient KTM-5. The voice-over is just a constant irony. Even the original video had its dose of irony, ending with GO's "Long Happy Life", where the "long and happy life" takes place "Among the identical walls, In the faraway coffin-like houses", so it's just an illusion of happiness of the (post-)communist world (I don't speak Russian, I had to use Google Translate, so maybe my analysis is not 100% correct). Grajdanskaia Oborona had a lot of "anti-system" songs, even in the Soviet times (that's why Letov was, at some point, sent to a mental asylum).
That's very interesting to hear! I am very glad I was able to hook multiple non-Russian speakers to Letov 😀 It's a pity the copyright system punishes using song fragments on RUclips, even though in the vast majority of cases it would only promote artists. Long and happy life is also reached "through the snowdrifts, through the mud, through the dirt", which describes the street where the tram is going rather precisely.
@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 I downloaded (from RUclips) a lot of his songs and watched most of the live concerts recordings available. I'm sure his discography is way larger than what we can find on RUclips. At some point, I was listening them loud in my car, but now it is not such a good idea to listen to Russian music loud, even if the singer was quite a critic to the system (I'm sure he would have also be against the current Russian leadership if he would have been still alive)... I mean, there's a song where he's comparing some "part" of his body with Stalin and Lenin, it takes great courage to sing something like this in the Soviet times.
Yes, his discography is HUGE: rutrackerorg/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3616685 (there are also links to his other projects in the thread). He was an odd person. Maybe it's for the best that he can't see what is happening now and can't have an opinion.
A half-built subway tunnel that never came to anything? There's also some parallels in the way Cincinnati lost its streetcars. The Cincinnati Street Railway deferred maintenaince during the 30s and 40s, until the streetcars where such a rickety catastrophe in the 50s that few people lamented the move to busses and trolleybusses.
i do sometimes wiish even a rich country like Sweden could also appreciate maintaining older but still working rolling stock instead of scrapping them once they get a chance
I thought Seattle had the shortest metro in the world, with its 2 station monorail. That being said, I have never been to Omsk, despite living in the largest city in Siberia for about 7 years. I will probably see this metro one day. Thanks for the video.
@@NoNo-hy2yn I've just scoured the official sites of Omsk and Omsk Oblast government and found nothing of the sort, which site did you refer to? Metrotram as a possible development of a largely failed project is tangentially mentioned in rare and rather outdated articles of small local media outlets. Not a trolley line.
The amount of sarcasm of this video has no limit. Love it! :D
HE UPLOADED, HE’S ALIVE
That war criminal!
I laughed so hard on the part of "one station and zero kilometers". I was caught completely off guard. I was expecting something like a 3-5 km line or something...
Same here
russia moment happened
No way, Railways of the World uploaded ! Glad to see you back and with another banger video. Hope you are doing alright.
Genius level narration. Tickles every corner of the brain. This is way more than a transport channel. Tahank you!
The metro station/ pedestrian underpass and the abandoned metro bridge tells me that sufficient money was budgeted to complete the line but most of it was lost to corruption.
Not just corruption, but also complete chaos
Funding was approved and planning & prep undertaken from 1986; the start of underground construction began in 1992 only a couple months after the collapse of the USSR. The last significant work to be done was the completion of the bridge in 2005
It was very smart of the Omsk city government to realize how cost effective bargin is even compared to rail traffic and to convert the convetional metro into a gondoliero-service.
how did you do this with the link?
@@alexalekos what link?
@@civishamburgum1234 Omsk was blue and clickable, it lead me to a search of the name within youtube
@@civishamburgum1234Omsk appeared blue with a magnifying glass. When I clicked on your comment it stopped being a link.
@@fa18superhornetLooked the same for me. It's an experimental Search from Comments feature, RUclips decides when it's on, you can't control it, only the channel owner can remove these links if they want to.
Beautiful old trams! Love those giant windows with no ads. Also appreciate the poetic narration and authentic voice. Don’t change a thing
Oh, the legend is back. Glad you are alive :)
You're back! I remember the original video, it was during the peak of the pandemic and I discovered Letov's music via it! I was planning to visit one day, but unfortunately history went on another path. I still love Letov's music, and I wish I could get "A Long Happy Life" on LP, which nowadays is unobtainable where I live. I hope you're doing well.
It could be argued that a tram that cannot withstand freezing temperatures, would be a bit of a design flaw, if that tram was intended to be used in Russia.
This is a video that shows how good are the old stuff. I live in Bucharest‚ Romania‚ and here are still being used old trams on most lines‚ and those still keep going somehow.
They’re essentially metal boxes with electrical motors and metal wheels. Very few moving parts. If they don’t rot away, motors are serviced and wheels replaced they work forever.
I doubt the V3A-93 will run for many more years in Bucharest... the oldest is only 31 years old, while these KTM-5 are at least 10 years older. Of course, the Tatra T4R (which is quite similar with the T3SU that can stil be found in Russia) could last for another 50 years with proper paint job every 10 years or so.
Omsk Metro, 100% up time and on time.
Excelent Production. Long live the Tram workers. Those bad politicians need to be FIRED for their corruption! Again, great work! Keep us posted on your work!
Welcome back, again!!!
You are the legend for me.
It’s a nice video! I have recognized a few of my favorite streets 😁
I'm from Russia. Only in Moscow, St.Petersburg and Kazan the metro systems construction is in active progress. In Samara and Nizhny Novgorod there is some slow construction process. In Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Volgograd no more activities on construction...
Omsk, Chelyabinsk and Krasnoyarsk construction cancelled.
As for Krasnoyarsk, they've recently resumed construction, but downgraded it to a light rail system (akin to the one in Volgograd). Some streets in the center have been closed due to construction.
Ah the lovely melancholy at the end. Keep it up!
I lived in Omsk for a year around 1995 and the tram was an interesting experience even then,
cool video - a whole mile of track rehabbed!
My native town, God bless you, author!
When this video was suggested, I thought the video was somehow familiar in the presentation style. Thanks for making new video. I was right this video is from a known but forgotten channel.
5:41 isn’t it that street that got famous because of how it looks during spring and autumn seasons?
Exactly, ул. 11-я линия
@@RailwaysoftheWorld1И прославил её своими фотографиями Илья Варламов, если я правильно помню. Он точно в районе Линий снимал, там по-прежнему ситуация похожая.
💚💚🌟🌟. Hi there, my friend! What you’ve shown is incredibly beautiful and fascinating. Thanks for sharing! Have a lovely day! ☀☕🖐
Truly majestic. The pyramids of Giza pale in comparison to this marvel of human engineering.
You're alive! This is a reupload right? I remember watching this video a few years ago, but with a different (female) voice over.
Edit: I should've watched it in full before commenting :D
Glad to see you back uploading! Nice video
Nice to see❤
Thank you. Thank you. Very nice video. Romantic. I hope the beautiful and rich Russian culture will not spread further than YT. I am very happy to live far away to you. Have a nice day.
You are back!! No wayyy
Не смотрел оригинальное видео 2020 года, к сожалению. Спасибо за ролик! И отдельное спасибо за кусочек со съемкой 11-й Линии с дрона 🥲
Glad to see a resurrection of the channel
western trams like Spanish CAF or similar would not survive first winter weekend, so long live russian trams, even with frozen LCDs
I love your sense of humour. I've never been to Omsk, but I'm sure it'll look much like home when seen from the inside of a KTM-5 or ZiU-9.
Я уж и забыл, что этот канал существует
I remember a video from a few years ago with a female narrator and the exact same narration. What happened to it?
Если бы Москва не высасывала как пылесос всю прибыль омских предприятий-в Омске давно уже было бы построено метро. Строительство метро остановилось, когда Сибнефть (на налоги которой и строилось метро и штаб-квартира которой находилась в Омске) не "выкупили" бы у Абрамовича и не объединили с Роснефтью. Штаб-квартира которой была в Москве. С тех пор все доходы от омской нефтедобычи переработки потекли в Москву... Большинство омских предприятий зарегистрированы в Москве. И налоги все уплывают туда. Поэтому Омск такой нищий. А насчёт ненужности метро в Омске может писать только тот, кто не знает что такое омский климат.. И тот, кто никогда в январе на пронизывающим любую одежду ветру не стоял на омской остановке в ожидании трамвая. А так всё правильно. Комфорт-только для москвичей. А за МКАДом живёт, по мнению руководства страны, только скотина... Деньги, конечно нужно обязательно отправлять в европейские банки. А не тратить их на развитие инфраструктуры своих (или для правительства не своих?) городов...
Russia *could* be such a lovely country.
Шутка про танк классная, но я все же подушню. 71-407 собирается не на основных мощностях Уралвагонзавода, а на Уралтрансмаше и делит производство не с танками Т-90, а с САУ Мста-М
Perfect!!! Was waiting alot!!!
Heroiam vična slava,
So is this your actual voice? as opposed to the voice overs from previous episodes?
Yes, that's me from now on
Is it a reupload? I have a really strong deja vu feeling
oh 8:50 nics job dude ; )
7:00 I don't think that's a Stadler tram...
It’s called Stadler 62103. Belkommunmash and Stadler Rail have a joint enterprise in Minsk… or had until 2022.
5:47 hello drone conductor and (most definitely) channel owner
We have too much theft in electric transport, in Belarus and Ukraine trams and trolleybuses are being developed, but here they are only being closed down
We need a Chelyabinsk metro review 😂😂😂
With quality of tbe tracks not even replace trams with old M152 trains wouldn't help cause it would be too much
May your KTM-5 serve you well
Welcome back!
.. Great video. Like me ..
Why doesn't omsk copy Brussels' Pre-Metro idea?
Volgograd has a tram tunnel, so the idea isn't unheard of in Russia. But the existing tunnel segments are fairly short and disconnected, and building the tunnel portals and on-ramps for trams to go through would be very expensive for a city that can barely maintain its current trackage.
The footage looked so familiar... I was just expecting to hear Egor Letov any moment. The "original" video made me start listening to his songs.
From what I see, the tram system in Omsk is in a very poor condition. It looks good for tram enthusiasts, but I'm sure the locals wouldn't mind getting new buses instead of the ancient KTM-5. The voice-over is just a constant irony. Even the original video had its dose of irony, ending with GO's "Long Happy Life", where the "long and happy life" takes place "Among the identical walls, In the faraway coffin-like houses", so it's just an illusion of happiness of the (post-)communist world (I don't speak Russian, I had to use Google Translate, so maybe my analysis is not 100% correct). Grajdanskaia Oborona had a lot of "anti-system" songs, even in the Soviet times (that's why Letov was, at some point, sent to a mental asylum).
That's very interesting to hear! I am very glad I was able to hook multiple non-Russian speakers to Letov 😀 It's a pity the copyright system punishes using song fragments on RUclips, even though in the vast majority of cases it would only promote artists.
Long and happy life is also reached "through the snowdrifts, through the mud, through the dirt", which describes the street where the tram is going rather precisely.
@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 I downloaded (from RUclips) a lot of his songs and watched most of the live concerts recordings available. I'm sure his discography is way larger than what we can find on RUclips. At some point, I was listening them loud in my car, but now it is not such a good idea to listen to Russian music loud, even if the singer was quite a critic to the system (I'm sure he would have also be against the current Russian leadership if he would have been still alive)... I mean, there's a song where he's comparing some "part" of his body with Stalin and Lenin, it takes great courage to sing something like this in the Soviet times.
Yes, his discography is HUGE: rutrackerorg/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3616685 (there are also links to his other projects in the thread).
He was an odd person. Maybe it's for the best that he can't see what is happening now and can't have an opinion.
NO WAY YOU ARE ALIVE !
Omsk is third largest city of Siberia
The Great Trial express, all aboard to Germania
That's a very depressing end for a video about a tram system
Guess the one common thing between Omsk and Cincinnati.
A half-built subway tunnel that never came to anything?
There's also some parallels in the way Cincinnati lost its streetcars. The Cincinnati Street Railway deferred maintenaince during the 30s and 40s, until the streetcars where such a rickety catastrophe in the 50s that few people lamented the move to busses and trolleybusses.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'S BAAAAAAAAAACK!
i do sometimes wiish even a rich country like Sweden could also appreciate maintaining older but still working rolling stock instead of scrapping them once they get a chance
Omsk has amazing firemen btw... great videos on YT
Ну поэт!
I thought Seattle had the shortest metro in the world, with its 2 station monorail. That being said, I have never been to Omsk, despite living in the largest city in Siberia for about 7 years. I will probably see this metro one day. Thanks for the video.
Это мой город
Я каркас на этих трамвая котаюсь
Когда пчелиная война 2?
THE GREAT TRIAL AWAITS ⬛️🟨⬛️
Посмотри на железную дорогу в Америке, поезда слетают с рельсов, ужас, что делается в загнивающей Америке!
Do Tula trolley please?
I hope the rails will be repaired by next 5 year update. Omsk you can do it!
Detroit
Do not try to leave Omsk!
Best metro 🥳🥳🥳
I knew I saw this vid before. Years before. But it was uploaded days ago. Weird. Oh and then I saw the last chapter. Okay. :)
100% wheelchair accessible. Indeed!
100%, but I guess only when you can find the platform operator.
Oooh, a 10-year-old video shoot! Can I have something fresher?
Omsk metro will be converted into a trolley line
I'd love to see a source
@@chapeloflightsthe government website of Omsk
@@chapeloflightsnot a trolley line but an underground tram system just like in volgograd
@@NoNo-hy2yn I've just scoured the official sites of Omsk and Omsk Oblast government and found nothing of the sort, which site did you refer to?
Metrotram as a possible development of a largely failed project is tangentially mentioned in rare and rather outdated articles of small local media outlets. Not a trolley line.
@@tmmmm2105 Same for Krasnoyarsk. They recently resumed construction, leading to some streets in the center being closed off.
Please invest in a professional voice over…
You lye. This is NOT metro, because NOT meet criteria of being metro. Line MUST has MINIMUM two stations.
the victim mentality express
A rusty, creaky KTM-5 on a bitterly cold winter morning in Omsk? That's in the dictionary under "victim mentality express"!