Living in a small town in Belarus. How the town is set up. Giveaway results.
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- My mom lives in a small town in Vitebsk region in Belarus. Their rural vibe is what i admire after St.Petersburg. Life in a small town is calm and clean but there is a big issue there. Which one? You will find it out in the video.
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My dear friends, what city do you live in? Is it small or big? And how do you like this Belorussian town?
I live in upstate N.Y. It is about 20 minutes from the Albany . We are about 3 1/5 hours maybe 4 traffic. And I live in a city, more country than city.✌🏻❤️
Fullerton California, 10 km north of Disneyland, Population 137,350, 58.1 km^2. Come visit us!
From Cape Town, South Africa. LOVE your videos.
Hi, I live in the Czech Republic in a small town like in your video. I like traditional architecture in Central Europe. Can I ask you one question? Is the situation in Belarus as bad as the media presents it to us? When I watch videos from the streets of Belarusian cities, I usually see beautiful and clean streets, repaired or maintained churches or houses. It doesn't suit me a bit in the picture of a dictator of an impoverished country as presented by the Western media. Thank you for any answer.
@@jansehnal177 From my point of view, it is true. When you have to save money to buy your children clothes, when groceries in your 12K population town cost almost the same as in Minsk, you know it doesn't really matter if your town is clean or not.
Oh yay! I just got back from visiting MY mom and brother to see this lovely video. And then, wham! I find out I've won such beautiful socks!! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this clips n wait more from you.
This small town is so clean, that the negatives disappear. I think it's better than the average European town and that life there is peaceful. I m living in Greece and in the past I was living in Germany. I congratulate the people and the state for this extraordinary level of cleanliness. In my country there is a quote saying that the cleanliness is a title of Honor.
Ksenia I so do understand what you were talking about. That is not a bad looking place where your Mom lives. It does have lots of apartments. Did you show us a cemetery? I do enjoy your videos and thanks for doing them. Please stay safe.
Cute town. You were so smart to be safe while out in the town. Weird though, when I tried to turn captions on, my only option was Russian captions; there was not an English option. So I just had to watch the video without knowing what was being said in the video.
Thank you for adding the English subtitles. I am going back now to rewatch now. Thank you.
Much understanding, there’s unrest all over the world.
Be safe, and may our Lord in Heaven be with you
Thank you for showing us the town! You're so kind! The town seems medium sized, not too small! Also, it is very quiet there, and didn't seem to have many people outside doing anything. Is that common for it to be so quiet with no people?
Also, I totally understand what you're saying about the unrest. Perhaps English subtitles next time?
I was wondering about that, too It's so empty and quiet, I wonder if not many people live there. A great video, anyway
Arland Jackson for English (or another language) subtitles, on your screen, up right side, it will show CC, you just need to pressed it and voila you'll have subtitles.
Very. beautiful layout! Love the amount of grounds, greenery, plants, flowers & trees surrounding the apartment buildings. . Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing your mom's beautiful city. Please be safe.
speaks very good Russian ... nice little town . I like Ksenyia and her videos ...
Well maintained classic soviet village. It would be interesting to see some people's summer gardens. My father in-law is currently getting buckets of cherries and raspberries from his.
5pm. Rush hour. One car every 5 minutes. Like it :-D
I like it too!
Hello I love your videos! I enjoy learning about your culture and seeing new places. Your videos have been a blessing this past year when we were all locked in our houses with the pandemic. Thank you! Please be careful and stay safe.
Cute town, love you and your video
Thank you Ksenyia for sharing! What a nice town! I hope the good people of Belarus find a good leader soon....a popular and democratically elected leader! Peace from the Republic of Ireland...😁
Depends on the definition of a good leader)
What a lovely little town. I hope things improve soon for Belarus. I attended school in St Petersburg in 1989-1990 and hope to return some day.
Hi Zenia. Your mother's town is absolutely beautiful it's so clean. Thank you for the lovely tour. I live in a medium-sized town. . Marion Ohio. I wish our town was this beautiful as your Mother's town. Prayers for your family and your safety. Enjoy your videos very much.
That was a fun walk around around a small town I might not ever visit in life. It reminds me of small American communities in the Midwest and 40 years ago. I am a fortunate American expatriate living in small capital city of Oslo, Norway and love it here.
Great video. Thank you for showing us around. More videos!
What a nice looking town. The war memorials are a reminder of what can go so very wrong. Many in the west do not understand the incredible sacrifice of lives made by Russia. I am watching your video while enjoying a Baltika 9. Thank you for the video..
Not just by Russia, Soviet Union had 15 republics)
Beautiful town.
I wish I knew what you were saying. I enjoy your videos quite a bit.
Turn on the subtitles
I live in a port city in Canada. The population is somewhere around115,000 people. In history, this place was settled for fishèrmen in the cod fishery. I believe some fishing may still go on but there is a container pier here so much load and unload. Before the COVID pandemic, it was a stop for cruise ships in the summertime. St. John's Newfoundland is one of the oldest cities in Canada. The original settlers here back in the 1700's came predominantly from England and Ireland. Also, some Portuguese settled here. It is the farthest city on the east coast. There is some French ancestry on this island province as well, mostly on the southwest coast. Atlantic Canada as we know it today was fought for by the English and the French.
Thankyou for showing your mother's town. It is lovely! I enjoy seeing you walk around and showing us all about your country. Stay safe! I am from a small small town in Louisiana --- we only had 2 traffic lights with population around 7000 people. We had to drive apx 30-40 minutes to get to the larger city with acutal shopping, lots of traffic lights and a population of around 25,000 people. Now I live in a very large city - Fort Worth, TX.
Lovely clean town I hope they will have peace soon and live in peace God bless you all
This was my first "visit" to Belarus. A very nice town. Although I almost understood nothing, it was nice to listen to your
very lyrical Russian.
Learning so many subjects watching your video’s. Geography, language, History and even Foreign Politics! Thank you for sharing! Khoroshego dnya!
Please, Ksenia, take care of yourself!
Melbourne Australia here about 25kms from the city. And close to the beach.
Very interesting to see a Belarus town. I live in a small town in the USA in the State of New Jersey. Thank you for the tour! 😀
I very much like your channel. I am a big fan of yours.
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Very beautiful Xenia..for me was a exam from Russian language i use to be a champion i do understand. yet can not speak..i am Austrian raised in west Poland near Berlin..kisses to you and family you are very smart woman and brave!💖💖🌞
Thanks for the tour Ksenia.. It reminds me so much when I visited my relatives in Romania..Be safe..
Looks really nice
Thanks for showing Belarus towns - I was there in 1991 and I have very few photographs to remind me. Met some beautiful people. Very different to life here in Australia.
I live outside of Ellensburg, Washington State in the countryside, west coast of US, just below Canada. 100 miles/160K east of Seattle, small town, slowly growing, irrigated desert, in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains. I live in the "rain shadow" of the Cascades, only 10 inches/25cm of rain/snow, very dry. 35,000 when college is in session, 25,000 when college is out. Lots of hay farming, I live in the Country in an old farmhouse, my land is 5.2 hectares. We are fairly new here, we settled this area in the 1870's.
Thanks for posting your video's, very interesting. Your mum's Belorus town looks very peaceful, picturesque & clean- perfect for a happy retirement. We live in New Zealand about 100m from the Whangarei harbor shore. Whangarei is the nearest town(called a city here) with a population of about 55,000. So it's in the top bit of NZ, known as the winterless north. We never get snow up here, just occasional heavy morning dew.
Very clean and pretty city. Looks like people take good care of their town. thanks for sharing
► Мне нравится, как вы говорите по-русски. Очень красиво, безупречно и грамотно.
Привет из Форт-Лодердейл, Флорида!
Спасибо!
I like the look of this town, not too small. There seems to be many apartments there. Did you film this on a quiet day as there appears to be few people walking around. I like the small shops or businesses, they appear colourful and interesting to look at. There seems to be trouble in many places in the world at the moment. Understandable to not try to stand out too much in public. Thank you for this nice film of you mother's town.
Could be just a hot Sunday, daytime, when everybody's out of town.
I didn't understand anyhting you were saying, but I loved the video anyway. Is it usually this empty, with no people around? Seems to be a very quiet town. Thank you for the video, do more videos like this showing us the "real every day life", please :)
It is beautiful there.
My entire family came from Belarus, Lithuania and Russia. They left in the early 1900s but it's interesting to see where they came from. Unfortunately none of my family left living really knows much about our history so your videos are nice to see the old countries, if I can call them that
I so glad you are able to understand your roots better watching my videos!
A lot of people were leaving mostly the western part of Belarus, however, that is typical of those who left between the wars.
You do what you have to do to be safe. God Bless
I understand your reasoning for speaking Russian and not English. But when there is nobody around I can’t see the reason, so this video is of no value to me because I speak not one word of Russian. I respect the choice that you’ve made and I’m sure you have a very good reason. I hope things get better for the people of Belarus. P.S. you have beautiful green eyes, or at least that’s how they are on my iPhone. Stay safe and God Bless.
Hi! I was making subtitles for 3 evenings in a row. So you can use icons in right bottom corner of your screen and switch the subtitles in English.
Stay safe.
Glad to hear you are ok even if I could not understand a word you said. I was wondering how you are with all the turmoil in the country? Though it seems like some protesters are seeking asylum from Belarus presently, I was wondering if you and your family are concerned for your own safety given the instability in the region? And if you can’t answer fro whatever reason(s) I’ll understand. I live with two very stubborn senior citizens and if I had to convince them to move because of some emergency or conflict it wouldn’t be the easiest task...Stay safe wherever your travels take you.
Hello, happy to see you !! Have a Great weekend!! ✌🏻❤️
Very nice video, thank you for speaking slowly. I would rather live in a town like this than in a big city.
And it looks very nice there!
Please be safe and take care of yourself and your family. May God Bless you always 🙏🙏
Very beautiful town . I hope you have peace there soon
Hello Ksenia, you're a beautiful person, thank you for the video. I don't speak Russian!
I only wish I could have understood everything you said Ksenia. :((( But it was interesting still. Were many of those store signs in the Belarussian language?
You can turn the subs on.
I only see Russian captions, but perhaps i’m looking in the wrong place. Stay safe!
Very nice town. Looks good place to live.
I have only the option for Russian captions, but it was still a beautiful walk. It’s so clean, but eerily quiet. Perhaps you could re-upload with a voiceover in English?
Very clean twon!!
This town looks really nice and clean. It seems to be a peaceful place where to live. Be careful and take care of your famuly. Greetings from Turin
I didn't know you're from Belarus! My family is Bellarussian!!!
Wow! That is awesome!
@@StPetersburgme Yeah, but sadly I know nothing about what it's like to be Bellarussian-American. My mother's side of the family is part Bellarussian, English, & Scottish. Her parents were children of Immigrants. My father is Italian-American. She chose not to raise me in Russian culture, so instead I was raised as an Italian-American. So all I knew about Russian culture growing up is from her orthodox church, & we only went during Easter time when we visited relatives, & the time I went to Russia in 1990 on a student exchange trip. But that time I still didn't get to go to Belarus because it wasn't on the itinerary. I was in Moscow, Novgorod, & Tver. So I really have a lot to learn & thanks to videos like yours, I can do that.
I have come to realize that a small town in Arkansas is on a whole different level of small in comparison to what you call small. 🤣This is quite large. It is so neat and clean and very peaceful and beautiful. I loved hearing you speak Russian. Thank you for the tour.❤️
Wow wow wow. You should come to Canada. Sorry there are such restraints on your life.
That seems like a really nice town, in spite of the political turmoil going on. We hope things get better there soon!
Btw- the video quality from your phone is still very good. 👍
Avilla, Indiana USA, pop.1000. Love small town atmosphere. Yet, city planners continue to try to expand the business community.
I couldn’t get English subtitles 🙁
I couldn’t either.
Hi Ksenia! Thanks for another lovely video! It looks nice there. Be Very Well 🙂
Such a pity, what’s going on in Belarus. I absolutely loved my visit, and can’t wait to go again.
What is your other you tube channel? I have heard you mention several times you have another channel, but i can't find it 🥺
Very interesting and well done.
Stay safe
wish my city was clean like that and the monuments were respected, kids destroyed a war monument last week they have no respect ,this is the uk meant to be a safe place but i would not walk the streets after 9 pm, sham there is so much political trouble in the world, if we got rid of pollutions we might live in peace, great videos, look forward to your videos ,stay safe
Yay, a video on Friday from you! Will be very nice in Belarus! 😊 Be safe always. 🙏
Edit: will you be putting English subtitles?
Turn captions on, then click on the gear for settings. Follow the menu down until you get "Russian (auto generated) >> English." Voila!
I only have the option for Russian, don't see a "gear" setting
@@gkennedy6319 I watched the video from a Windows computer via the Chrome browser. You might need to view it on that platform as opposed to a smart phone / Android / I-Phone.
Hello. I'm Form Australia Sydney please your Channels. Very very good 👍. ZAman Australia Sydney
У меня куча родственников живёт в Гомеле - бабушка оттуда родом.
Best city Belarus country
Very pretty videos. I’m sorry I don’t understand your narrative
The English Closed Captioning subtitles are very helpful. Take care Ksenia.
What English subtitles???
In RUclips settings, turn the Closed Captioning on, switch from Russian to English. The translation of Ksenia's Russian seems to be very well translated into English.
Unfortunately, we have only Russian subtitles.
@@mariahsmom9457 Are you looking at Ksenia's video on your phone or your computer? The Closed Captioning from Russian to English option seems to only work on my computer, not on my phone.
We are going through some similar issues here, you just be careful and thank you for another video.🙂
I like Belarus, but do hope that the people will get the leader of their choice instead of Lukasjenko. I live in a quite small town in Sweden. It's called Trollhättan.
Very nice tour of the small town even though I do not understand Russian. I am sorry to see that the flame is out at the soldier's graveyard. I wish you could have entered some of the shops there. I am looking forward to your next tour. Russia looks very nice from the outside but I will only know if I visit!
I liked the video but sadly youtube thinks I need russian subtitles☺️ I wish the political situation wasn’t so weird so you can speak freely in whichever language you choose to
Boolbochka, 👍! Thanks! 🤣🤣🤣
I did not see protesters or pedestrians. Is this a vacation to Belarus, video??
Yes, It's a video about my vacation and about the town.
Thank you for sharing, looks like a nice town. Mine is Helena, Montana USA population 30,000.
I use your social media in Saint Petersburg VK.
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It was a little difficult to follow the English closed caption sub-titles, but that's not your fault and I completely understand why it was wise to speak Russian. I love the way in which the soldiers who died in WW2 are honoured here so personally and, being from UK which is so small and crowded, I'm always surprised at the sense of space in the streets of Russian cities. Who knows? One day when you make your fortune from RUclips, you will be able to return here to live and be closer to your parents! It's good to live somewhere where you feel you really belong! 👍🌸
The subtitles were certainly out of sync although not without entertainment value. One memorable moment was when the video showed the cemetery and the captions stated it was the Town Council. It livened up a dreary day in Suffolk :)
I did not catch the name of the town. I guess I failed the test. BTW, the town does look really nice. My town in Colorado has population of about 100 thousands, close to big city and the mountain, perfect place to live.
She mentioned the name in the beginning. Belarus.
@@arlandjackson8103 Belarus is the country, not the town.
This does not look like a small town but it may be a small city according to Canadian standards. I understood about 80% of your Russian.
Though I prefer the countryside, I would live in this city. I live in a small city now, but I do not like my city.
Cant you write in your translation on the video? Would like to know what your saying.
This was such an enjoyable tour of your town. It looks like a peaceful place to live. It may not have all of the attractions of a major city but it probably doesn't have all of the problems of a big city. I am glad that you are being careful about what you film and what you say. That is being smart and careful of your safety. It also protects your Mom and brother from any undo attention and possibly being bothered by the authorities. I lived in a "police state" in Asia for ten years and I never had any problems because I made sure not to do or say anything that was frowned upon by the government. Some of my compatriots felt that as Americans they could say or do what they wanted to and some of them were deported and a few were arrested! Total idiots 😱🤣 I watch some other Russian RUclips channels and it actually scares me when the person filming makes anti-government statements and criticizes their leaders. That is just asking for trouble. Thanks for this vlog today. Take care and have a pleasant weekend. 🤗❤🙏🌎
America is not too far behind.
Bald and Bankrupt spoke english when he was there.
Красиво, но если нет работы тогда нужен Петербург. Я из Ленинграда уехал в 1988, в Витебске бывал в конце 1970х. Now I live in New York City.
Да именно поэтому я и живу в Петербурге.
Очень хорошее видео! ❣️
I like to know the name of this town please.
Lukashenko did not lose the elections last year.