You Won't Believe This Russian Road!

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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2019
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    🇷🇺 What do you know about the republic of Mari El deep in Russia on Europe's eastern border? Probably not too much right. What about their language? Well you're not alone and so I went out to rectify that and on the journey there found some weird things...like Barbara Streisand.

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  • @imakeitwhynot
    @imakeitwhynot 4 года назад +1278

    The reason why I watch this channel is because if the trip is boring, you leave it at that. You don't try to create drama or sensationalize a situation or pull up a fancy drone and make it seem like you had the time of your life. You leave it as is, and to me if makes it feel like I have really visited these paces. It's raw, it's real, it's simple. Kudos to you.

  • @Imsivan88
    @Imsivan88 4 года назад +3668

    The only one channel on RUclips that makes you feel like you are traveling yours self with this dude.

    • @0nizukaS4n
      @0nizukaS4n 4 года назад +33

      And Harald baldr

    • @Shinbaal99
      @Shinbaal99 4 года назад +55

      I like his personal style and that we see what he sees. What I do not like about other channels is that most of the time it will be some pretentious pricks pseudo lifestyle travel blogs with stupid music in the background.

    • @davidbjork5063
      @davidbjork5063 4 года назад +4

      @Chris Alexy I agree. I love this channel.
      Only bad thing is the subtitles.
      If I want him subbed its the english autosub and its messes up when another language are spoken than english.

    • @shaboopie12
      @shaboopie12 4 года назад +4

      Mark Weins is pretty good too.

    • @travelwithalens
      @travelwithalens 4 года назад +4

      Actually your a 100% correct, thats why I love this channel, just realized :)

  • @BeerdyBruceLeeCentral
    @BeerdyBruceLeeCentral 4 года назад +1641

    1500 rubles is 20 dollars. For 20 dollars a taxi in England would drive you all the way from your house to your parking lot.

    • @dp6436
      @dp6436 3 года назад +52

      Beerdy - Bruce Lee Central
      Didn’t know they had dollars in England

    • @dp6436
      @dp6436 3 года назад +3

      Walker 🍺

    • @doctor-atuti
      @doctor-atuti 3 года назад +6

      @CmC RR100 Thats like a few miles between innit?

    • @sawleyram7405
      @sawleyram7405 3 года назад +27

      £20 in the North East Mids would get you a good 15-18 miles!

    • @sawleyram7405
      @sawleyram7405 3 года назад +7

      @@GenaF It's actually about £21.10. The rate you Googled is just the international market rate, not the rate you'd get when buying Rubles.

  • @angry_dirt8529
    @angry_dirt8529 4 года назад +1348

    Babushka didn't commit a crime, she has got lost and is being searched

    • @hauptmannbalalaika
      @hauptmannbalalaika 4 года назад +100

      Thanks - it's called 'Missing person'.

    • @user-vg1ff1ez6t
      @user-vg1ff1ez6t 4 года назад +5

      Да, их разыскивает полиция.....

    • @AtiAntaGata
      @AtiAntaGata 4 года назад +108

      Babushka and all others on that board are missing people. No one is a criminal.

    • @Gerarudo
      @Gerarudo 3 года назад +4

      @@AtiAntaGata ah, thanks

    • @chtholly8084
      @chtholly8084 3 года назад +24

      @@AtiAntaGata Clearly she went missing because she escaped to her evil lair.

  • @epicgamer1180
    @epicgamer1180 4 года назад +1958

    Babushka: *goes missing*
    Bald: "What a dodgy babushka!"

    • @callummclachlan4771
      @callummclachlan4771 4 года назад +211

      Only the dodgeiest of babushkas go missing.

    • @ducphan4263
      @ducphan4263 4 года назад +26

      Best comment 😭😭

    • @CoolMrMusicMaker
      @CoolMrMusicMaker 4 года назад +9

      10/10

    • @0gpt0
      @0gpt0 4 года назад +67

      All peoples on board actually missing

    • @madanielk6526
      @madanielk6526 4 года назад +27

      Bald: locates babushka
      Bald says: PESH MOTOR YUDER LAT
      Babushka : YO MAMA!

  • @praveenb9048
    @praveenb9048 4 года назад +599

    One Day in the Life of Baldan Bankruptovich.

    • @Martina-Kosicanka
      @Martina-Kosicanka 4 года назад +28

      It's pretty cool name actually

    • @Kitulous
      @Kitulous 4 года назад +13

      Baldan sounds like an insult in Russian, but for some south Slavic languages, like, for example, Serbian that will do as a name, I don't know why do I think like that though.

    • @carloscamejo391
      @carloscamejo391 4 года назад +43

      Балдан Банкротович

    • @nuclear9977
      @nuclear9977 4 года назад +30

      Baldimir

    • @ratkopocuca8124
      @ratkopocuca8124 4 года назад +19

      Baldoslav

  • @ClowderBeatsAnimals
    @ClowderBeatsAnimals 3 года назад +431

    That taxi guy is nice, he didn't even complain with the bad road and unplanned stops. I hope he got paid at least double if not a day's worth of earning plus a carwash.

    • @lesiaa3179
      @lesiaa3179 3 года назад +101

      Clowder 15 the funny thing is that he took him to Morki completely wrong way, the correct road isn't as bad and it's probably shorter. Those who live in Morki and watched this video think that he made it on purpose to make more money))

    • @tommahnke
      @tommahnke 3 года назад +9

      I hope he tipped him well.

  • @lesiaa3179
    @lesiaa3179 4 года назад +779

    I'm from Morki, but I live in London. I came to visit my mom 3 days after mr Bald left. It's actually sad that no one told him that it's quite unique place, it's the last place in Europe where peganizm still exists, there is pegans village with holly forest, also there is a small river, which is one of the cleanest in the world, also this place used to be famous for witches. Also you missed a beauty of Yoshkar Ola and interesting story about the president, who rebuilt it, but now in a prison.

    • @lesiaa3179
      @lesiaa3179 4 года назад +214

      The woman who sings was the creator and ruler of a folk band, where I used to sing as a kid and also she's my relative)) and I know a funny women who speaks English)))

    • @kennethhorne1119
      @kennethhorne1119 3 года назад +16

      wish you would tell us more,,Its so interesting

    • @lesiaa3179
      @lesiaa3179 3 года назад +30

      Ask me) I’m stuck here with lockdown

    • @lesiaa3179
      @lesiaa3179 3 года назад +15

      lockdown in Russia :)

    • @Remon_
      @Remon_ 3 года назад +12

      you mean paganism?

  • @shitpostingsandwhich
    @shitpostingsandwhich 4 года назад +2967

    Bald: hold up stop the taxi
    Taxi driver: why?
    Bald: there's a SOVIETBUSSSTOP

    • @LS-Moto
      @LS-Moto 4 года назад +102

      He probably thought "what is this guys looking at on this shabby old bus stop"

    • @korpifox5445
      @korpifox5445 4 года назад +75

      @@LS-Moto "damn englishman"

    • @khan919
      @khan919 4 года назад +5

      Americans be like: We have saved the Democracy

    • @guidedmeditation2396
      @guidedmeditation2396 4 года назад +20

      It is fascinating to see places that you didn't know existed but you can't even comprehend where it is. And so nice to see friendly people that live simply but seem more content than so many people that have everything.

    • @gregalexander307
      @gregalexander307 4 года назад +11

      Why is he so obsessed with everything Soviet lol

  • @IrrationalDelusion
    @IrrationalDelusion 4 года назад +781

    13:30 This is not a post of criminals but people who lost without a trace! This poor babushka done nothing wrong(according to sign)

    • @slax4884
      @slax4884 4 года назад +2

      Sad times

    • @deltanovember1672
      @deltanovember1672 4 года назад +10

      Poor woman!

    • @oatmilk2720
      @oatmilk2720 4 года назад +36

      Yeah! And actually sign says that this Babushka went missing! I really really really hope she's okay now 😢😞♥️

    • @exorcie
      @exorcie 4 года назад +23

      The big sign states "Wanted by Police" though. But yeah, if you pause and read, all of those people are missing, not wanted.

    • @danskyder1564
      @danskyder1564 4 года назад

      Ah that’s what I thought!

  • @geexy
    @geexy 3 года назад +714

    I live in this town! Yoshkar-Ola ~

    • @radishtea3748
      @radishtea3748 3 года назад +14

      Wow. Do people remember him? You live in a nice place.

    • @PeripheryFanboy
      @PeripheryFanboy 3 года назад +8

      Do you know what the place at 4:57 is?

    • @alexanderkam
      @alexanderkam 3 года назад +1

      хорошо у вас, хэллоу из Новчика)

    • @TV-qn4hc
      @TV-qn4hc 3 года назад +5

      Can you speak Mari ?

    • @extracheesypizzaboi
      @extracheesypizzaboi 3 года назад +1

      Gaming

  • @isimvol
    @isimvol 4 года назад +538

    Lady: "I'm Russian, those girls are Mari"
    Lady: starts singing in mari language and mari girls barely know the words

    • @kap1526
      @kap1526 4 года назад +6

      Lmao

    • @ArcStormZ
      @ArcStormZ 4 года назад +27

      It's possible those women simply weren't familiar with that song. That doesn't mean that they aren't mari speakers.

    • @lesiaa3179
      @lesiaa3179 3 года назад +26

      She's a singer, she used to perform on a stage and was a head of folk music band, where I used to sing.

    • @1127TOMI
      @1127TOMI 3 года назад

      @@lesiaa3179 Nice! Do you live there too?

    • @lesiaa3179
      @lesiaa3179 3 года назад +9

      Tom for the moment yes, because of lockdown, but I've been living in London for the last 13 years.

  • @Korino
    @Korino 4 года назад +616

    Bald's russian is getting so good that he's forgetting the words in english. Welcome to the plight of multilinguals

    • @NeoGeoMurikov
      @NeoGeoMurikov 4 года назад +42

      Mister Worldwide

    • @cuntontheweb2657
      @cuntontheweb2657 4 года назад +7

      Me with Dutch, English and German

    • @plunderpunk2
      @plunderpunk2 4 года назад +10

      Years after moving back from Germany I'd said flughafen enough times that I forgotten the English equivalent. That was weird.

    • @robertaandersone2363
      @robertaandersone2363 4 года назад +3

      Me with Latvian, English and Russian.

    • @jeremyemilio9378
      @jeremyemilio9378 4 года назад +23

      *cries in monolingual*

  • @MrOlezik87
    @MrOlezik87 4 года назад +501

    13:31 it says she went missing not committing a crime

    • @SatansFire
      @SatansFire 4 года назад +33

      oh.

    • @MrFartyman44
      @MrFartyman44 4 года назад +15

      @@SatansFire fuk u satan

    • @ioiooiioioioioooiiioiio2492
      @ioiooiioioioioooiiioiio2492 4 года назад +2

      @@MrFartyman44 666

    • @elamanov
      @elamanov 4 года назад +42

      actually all of those people on the board went missing

    • @SatansFire
      @SatansFire 4 года назад +10

      @@MrFartyman44 fuck did i do >:U
      Mortals be rude for no reason, smh.

  • @LisaPurrs
    @LisaPurrs 4 года назад +644

    Babushka is just missing person, not a criminal, but I instantly imagined russian mafia and Donna Babushka played by Al Pachino.

    • @user-xq1er2dt6d
      @user-xq1er2dt6d 4 года назад +21

      Babushka played by Al Paccino? No more vodka for you! :)

    • @user-se3zq6ww4n
      @user-se3zq6ww4n 4 года назад +4

      Yeah, I imagined a babushka criminal for a second.))

    • @lavamer
      @lavamer 3 года назад +3

      Бабушка

    • @deniska0
      @deniska0 3 года назад +4

      She probably shouldn’t of been pinned right next to criminals.

    • @Ederdart
      @Ederdart 3 года назад +23

      @@deniska0 nobody there were criminals they are all missing

  • @katreng884
    @katreng884 4 года назад +154

    Who's rewatching all bald's old videos 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

  • @allahsboot2886
    @allahsboot2886 4 года назад +861

    That taxi driver just got paid 1500 to wake up in the morning with the flu

    • @HartajTrehan
      @HartajTrehan 4 года назад +194

      and with broken suspensions on his car

    • @m23m23
      @m23m23 4 года назад +69

      I think he got a bit more rubles for waiting on him

    • @farin6847
      @farin6847 4 года назад +98

      this drama queen doesn't even have the flu, he has a minor cold. ffs if he actually had the flu he wouldn't be running around catching buses to bumfuck nowhere. i don't get why people conflate colds with the flu

    • @kevinschmidt2171
      @kevinschmidt2171 4 года назад +22

      With flu he meant just the headache caused by sammagon

    • @checkersx3556
      @checkersx3556 4 года назад +18

      @@kevinschmidt2171 Right, sounds better than saying "I have a massive hangover and feel like crap."

  • @JasonMickel
    @JasonMickel 4 года назад +426

    "We've stopped cause our backs are killing us"
    **Driver taking a piss in background"

    • @ve2vfd
      @ve2vfd 4 года назад +26

      Ever driven a rough road with a full bladder? You back and everything else hurts! :)

    • @JasonMickel
      @JasonMickel 4 года назад +16

      @@ve2vfd Those roads look like they would hurt my soul

    • @user-kw9cu
      @user-kw9cu 4 года назад +25

      Bald had a chance to film a soviet dick

    • @owand5017
      @owand5017 4 года назад +2

      Pat D Im suprised Bald did’t have to pay an extra fee for suspension damage XD

    • @LS-Moto
      @LS-Moto 4 года назад +3

      A soviet piss

  • @timax4114
    @timax4114 4 года назад +789

    Do you speak english?
    Mari kidds: *giggle*
    Mari grandma: Natürlich

    • @divinemoments5344
      @divinemoments5344 4 года назад +18

      @@akvs94 If you imply II World War then Germans didn't reach Mari El

    • @divinemoments5344
      @divinemoments5344 4 года назад +3

      @@akvs94 I have no idea where the joke was in the first place.

    • @tiwaz9997
      @tiwaz9997 4 года назад +39

      @@akvs94 German is the franca lingua in many places in eastern europe.

    • @deutschekultur5035
      @deutschekultur5035 4 года назад +6

      @@tiwaz9997 good old days

    • @tiwaz9997
      @tiwaz9997 4 года назад +5

      @@sonrazuma1572 Eh, yes, yes it is.

  • @mdmsfan
    @mdmsfan 4 года назад +347

    The babushka isn't dodgy. They are looking for her because she disappeared.

    • @SamaraMorgan1970
      @SamaraMorgan1970 4 года назад +107

      she probably fell in one of the holes on the street

    • @sir_russia
      @sir_russia 4 года назад +5

      @@SamaraMorgan1970 😆😆😆😆😆

  • @saintkamikaze
    @saintkamikaze 4 года назад +448

    Bald, these people are not criminals. they are gone/lost.
    Also, i'm Estonian myself and found Mari language a fairly bit similar to ours. after googling it, i was right. it belongs to Finno-ugric language tree.

    •  4 года назад +2

      I m familiar only with Yugoslav communisem and can you confirm if it was really so different in USSR. Do you think there was a busline to minority area in Marki 30 years ago?

    • @PornStarOnBBS
      @PornStarOnBBS 4 года назад +3

      We should show to the Balde the Setumaa language! Soviet babuskas will amaze him

    • @vaevictis2789
      @vaevictis2789 4 года назад +13

      @ soviet transport infrastructure was very branched, even the smallest villages had regular communication with local district centers

    •  4 года назад +6

      @@vaevictis2789 I would assume this was true based on facts I lived in Yugoslavia. Bald is doing so subreal distopian videos and Its very painfull to see he is closest to the reality as any other fogeign YTer. (Image some ex-UK Yter visited Scotland to find our how ex Emprire is doing and they filmed the only Englishman in group of Scots singing Scotland tradicional song...)

    • @andreakoroknai1071
      @andreakoroknai1071 4 года назад +5

      yes, I remember learning in high school that it's related to Hungarian.

  • @rubenrogierbouman
    @rubenrogierbouman 4 года назад +381

    Man, this channel is so pure. Changed my opinion about Russia as well, still dont like the politics over there, but the people are real.

    • @triglav1848
      @triglav1848 4 года назад +9

      Whats wrong with politics?

    • @rubenrogierbouman
      @rubenrogierbouman 4 года назад +11

      @@triglav1848 well i dont like the populist leaders nowadays. Putin, Trump, Bolsenaro etc. Its always the people that suffer from it in the end.

    • @triglav1848
      @triglav1848 4 года назад +25

      Ruben Bouman
      In that case, I will not disturb you while eating soy. BTW, Putin is the blessing for the Russia and 77% of Russians also think so. I respect the will of the people, comrade.

    • @davids5126
      @davids5126 4 года назад +1

      @@davidvukelic5271 Israel is doing a stupid policy, just like Russia or the United States, but that's no reason for attacking ordinary people.

    • @rubenrogierbouman
      @rubenrogierbouman 4 года назад +1

      @@davidvukelic5271 jewish haha, im an atheist dutch guy, 0% jewish. Anyway im out of this discussion as it was not my intention to start it.

  • @davidellis4031
    @davidellis4031 4 года назад +317

    "Criminal Babushka" sounds like a great name for a punk band...

  • @akalion213
    @akalion213 4 года назад +140

    13:31 Her "crime" is that she went outside and never came back home lol

  • @user-zp8cp3ti9n
    @user-zp8cp3ti9n 4 года назад +343

    I live in morki. !!!!

    • @cihanyagmurself
      @cihanyagmurself 4 года назад +11

      How is there ? should I come 😆😆🤫

    • @rabihghannoum4902
      @rabihghannoum4902 4 года назад +6

      Hiii. Give me ur number

    • @crimson7151
      @crimson7151 4 года назад +3

      LEAD FARMER you’ll get a video of a babushka tiddies jiggling in the Soviet air in the Soviet bus stop

    • @johanbruijnooge6818
      @johanbruijnooge6818 4 года назад

      @@crimson7151 Singing a Soviet song while waiting for the Soviet bus?

    • @bollywoodway3312
      @bollywoodway3312 4 года назад +2

      Pesh motor yuder lat 😵

  • @babooo8912
    @babooo8912 4 года назад +400

    this guy talks about soviet busstops like gordan ramsay talks about fresh burgers

  • @cjbotts
    @cjbotts 4 года назад +187

    I love this series because it shows me how amazingly kind welcoming friendly and curious Russian people are. As an american I am heavily propagandized against russia since early childhood schooling, and probably worse now due to our media. I actually have a strong desire to visit this country now, whereas before I was just generally curious. Russian history is one of the most fascinating of any nation and sadly in the US you need to be a few years into university to begin to learn it.

    • @pressrepeat2000
      @pressrepeat2000 4 года назад +19

      Just go visit and travel around. People are super friendly. There are crooks too, just be normally careful. But most are super friendly and love to interact with foreigners.

    • @irina8551
      @irina8551 4 года назад +19

      @@pressrepeat2000 I am Russian and its a mystery to me , but our people are especially interested and hospitable with foreigners, may be you are right-its curiosity

  • @user-wc3zi7lh4g
    @user-wc3zi7lh4g 4 года назад +29

    A hello to Mari people and Finno-Ugrians from Hungary!

  • @DixieBanjo
    @DixieBanjo 4 года назад +257

    Hey Bald! I spent some time teaching English in Syktyvkar, Komi Republic and their local language; Komi - A Uralic language related to Finnish sounds nice and is worthy of your visit.

    • @kevarimies8130
      @kevarimies8130 4 года назад +2

      This would make a really nice video!

    • @penguin87904
      @penguin87904 4 года назад +34

      Should also visit kalmykia. Only place on Europe with a buddhist majority and a mongol language.

    • @DixieBanjo
      @DixieBanjo 4 года назад +5

      @@penguin87904 Yeah I've always found that very interesting along with Tatarstan.

    • @avatarion
      @avatarion 4 года назад +3

      It's not very closely related to Finnish.

    • @DixieBanjo
      @DixieBanjo 4 года назад +4

      @@avatarion Well of course not, but there are some word similarities and sounds. You can tell by grammar and its verbs that it is indeed Uralic.

  • @user-bb6xx4nw2d
    @user-bb6xx4nw2d 4 года назад +408

    13:18 It is not criminal babushka. It is missing people board

    • @indycharlie
      @indycharlie 4 года назад +3

      Interesting . Where do they post Wanted posters there / Russia ? Thanks ahead ...... Gubs

    • @CubeDaWoop
      @CubeDaWoop 4 года назад +10

      @@indycharlie in Finland they're posted to social media :D

    • @dos8764
      @dos8764 4 года назад +19

      @@indycharlie It is wanted board. In Russia wanted posters can be on any person, which police is looking for, and because missing people is the police case, they post missing peoples too.

    • @gagamba9198
      @gagamba9198 4 года назад +15

      You know why she's missing, yeah? Because she's a criminal babushka who's on the lam after doing shit. Babushkas excel at fleeing from police and hiding in their babushka hideouts.

    • @indycharlie
      @indycharlie 4 года назад +1

      @@CubeDaWoop Wow . If they tried that for ours here in the U.S, it would crash all the social media sites !! Wonder where they are posted in Russia , there, or previous Soviet countries !? I am sure they are all different though . Just surprised it was only lost/ missing O/S the police Station there tho . Have a good one , and thanks for the reply ........ gubs

  • @rembo96
    @rembo96 3 года назад +134

    I am Russian and I love our small nations such as Chuvash, Mari, Mordva. They are so open and kind.

  • @Woozerspat
    @Woozerspat 4 года назад +59

    The guy with a "Dolce & Gabbana Milano" T-shirt really cracked me up...

  • @cottontailblaze1980
    @cottontailblaze1980 4 года назад +356

    Taxi driver: why are we stopping again?
    Bald: Soviet bus stop!!!!

    • @jonobrien1339
      @jonobrien1339 4 года назад +30

      Look!! Soviet Dog shit!!!

    • @avigdonable
      @avigdonable 4 года назад +4

      Actually @Bold and Bankrupt should have a look at these Soviet Bus Stops more often. Its a bit of a Soviet Modernism forward slash Soviet Brutalism. Traveller forward slash photographer Chris Herwig even released his photo album about these while travelling through the former Soviet Republics.

    • @andreibeselea9782
      @andreibeselea9782 4 года назад

      HA ha ha

  • @damirzakizanov2757
    @damirzakizanov2757 4 года назад +55

    I live in Yoshkar-Ola. My friend from USA just watched this video and sent it to me.

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 4 года назад +1

      Hey! I visited your city four times in the past!

    • @damirzakizanov2757
      @damirzakizanov2757 4 года назад +9

      @@demandred1957 How many years ago? In 2010's our town had strong changes on riverside. Nowadays Yoshkar-Ola's center looks like a european town, but away from river it still looks like an old soviet town. XD

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 4 года назад +1

      @@damirzakizanov2757 my last trip was in 2005. I was a client of Maxim introductions, just off the center. So the center doesn't look the same as I remember then... Is the cafe "Aquarium" by the park still there?

    • @damirzakizanov2757
      @damirzakizanov2757 4 года назад +1

      @@demandred1957 I found it on a map on Komsomolskaya Street 124в. Yes, it's near The Central Park Of Culture And Recreation.

    • @TrueFilter
      @TrueFilter 4 года назад

      demandred1957 Russian brides?

  • @kirstydragan
    @kirstydragan 4 года назад +124

    Love the fact that you found a Russian factory with Lenin in front . And a fantastic mosaic at a bus stop. I have to say the old Russian regime took pride in the things they built during the communist era when they were in power. Absolutely beautiful well done Mr Bald.

    • @svensk_exports9396
      @svensk_exports9396 3 года назад +9

      Lenins are all over the place, it's the still-standing "uncle Joe" Stalin statue that's shocking!

  • @TheMopedracer
    @TheMopedracer 4 года назад +10

    Dear all Gods. Please give Mr. Bald. all the strength and energy to be able to stay cheerful and keep making these lovely films. And for there to always be plenty of food in his belly. We all love you B&B

  • @paulfunyun5728
    @paulfunyun5728 4 года назад +244

    Kalmykia next? The people there speak a Mongolian language, the only one that Europe is home to, very cool!

    • @curiousnomadic
      @curiousnomadic 4 года назад +31

      Only Buddhist Republic in Europe too.

    • @paulinahvdg3188
      @paulinahvdg3188 4 года назад +5

      Kalmykia is actually situated in the land where the European race begin. it s one of the possible urheimat -homeland where the ethnogenesis of the Europeans begun. It is sad the Europeans being the only race in their world that their urheimat is actually now inhabitated and belong to another race propably since late middle ages with the great migrations of Asian turkomongol nations towards europe

    • @PeelingFlame
      @PeelingFlame 4 года назад +4

      @@paulinahvdg3188 I mean, yes, but the urheimat is rather larger than just kalmykia. There are russian inhabited areas and also caucasic inhabited ones.
      Why care though? you probably wouldn't wanna live there either.

    • @Rin-ir9bu
      @Rin-ir9bu 4 года назад +1

      @@paulinahvdg3188 Russians did the same to kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan and as featured the mari el in this video so

    • @abrahamvanhelsing732
      @abrahamvanhelsing732 4 года назад

      @@curiousnomadic What is interesting is that according to Russian Wikipedia, this small settlement of Morki has a Buddhist Stupa as well!

  • @DaveLegenda
    @DaveLegenda 4 года назад +429

    11:06 “We stopped because our backs are killing us from the road”
    The taxi driver just went for a piss lmao

    • @emilkarpo
      @emilkarpo 4 года назад +20

      No probably true, took months to get over back pains caused by a few days of bouncing around the back roads of Chechnya and Ingushetia. Leads to more pee breaks as well........

    • @AshutoshKumar-ck7yb
      @AshutoshKumar-ck7yb 4 года назад +2

      Good observations, i noticed that as We also do it in India! 😂😂😂

    • @ebinnisti1769
      @ebinnisti1769 4 года назад +8

      you gotta go when you gotta go

    • @brendanstanford5612
      @brendanstanford5612 4 года назад

      You mean 10:44

    • @DisconnectedRoamer
      @DisconnectedRoamer 4 года назад +11

      @@AshutoshKumar-ck7yb i think most men worldwide stop for a piss on long drives if theres no toilet lol

  • @PJL7095
    @PJL7095 Год назад +2

    “He’s playing something as well with his hand”…. Classic line Bald

  • @abstractrussian5562
    @abstractrussian5562 4 года назад +60

    Mr. Bald: forgets English words
    Also Mr. Bald: wants to ask how to get to Morki, actually says: "Yes, carrot! Road!"

  • @_DD_15
    @_DD_15 4 года назад +198

    13:45, do you speak English? Da da English, big boys 🙄😂😂😂

    • @angelikussupericus
      @angelikussupericus 4 года назад

      fuck english

    • @angelikussupericus
      @angelikussupericus 4 года назад +2

      @Dank Waifu because you expect everyone to speak english

    • @angelikussupericus
      @angelikussupericus 4 года назад

      @@ElonHusky whats is brussia

    • @angelikussupericus
      @angelikussupericus 4 года назад

      @@ElonHusky its gussia

    • @Heffen89
      @Heffen89 4 года назад +2

      The fun thing is, that she thinks Mr. Bald is German and greets him in German. "Guten Tag." Greetings from Germany.

  • @teddywoodburn1295
    @teddywoodburn1295 4 года назад +759

    You speak English?
    Да

    •  4 года назад +18

      :) It is so imperialistic I have to like it....

    • @onlyvlad4293
      @onlyvlad4293 4 года назад +3

      me

    • @MarriedToTheKGB
      @MarriedToTheKGB 4 года назад +3

      net. idi na hoy!

    • @mzplay308
      @mzplay308 4 года назад +2

      @Michael Tuttle da, da. My english is very khoroshy

    • @mehmetbagcan4904
      @mehmetbagcan4904 4 года назад +5

      I got a better one:
      -So, you are Romanian, so you speak Latin language, right?
      - Da!
      -😂

  • @blackdarkghost1212
    @blackdarkghost1212 Год назад +6

    My 6-year-old daughter walked into the room, watched with me for a few seconds, and exclaimed, 'This is BALD!' I asked her, 'How long have you been following this channel?' She said, 'What channel? I only said this man is BALD!'

  • @gothicllo1329
    @gothicllo1329 Год назад +2

    grandma singing at end was so epic, salutes from Brazil

  • @Rin-ir9bu
    @Rin-ir9bu 4 года назад +101

    Mari is such a beautiful language. The entire world needs to know more about uralic nations.

  • @chicheka1753
    @chicheka1753 4 года назад +994

    Russian roads
    Take me home
    To Morki
    Where I belong
    Mari El
    Soviet mama
    Take me home
    Russian roads.

    • @djlawlz4041
      @djlawlz4041 4 года назад +19

      Haha I love this comment!

    • @3.14name
      @3.14name 4 года назад +15

      Big boi time

    • @shabba9257
      @shabba9257 4 года назад +10

      Brilliant 😂😂

    • @hailthehordes5932
      @hailthehordes5932 4 года назад +9

      Killer comment!!😂😂😂

    • @sandman3402
      @sandman3402 4 года назад +12

      I hear the voice
      When babushka calls me
      Radio reminds me of Soviet propaganda

  • @konstantingeist3587
    @konstantingeist3587 Год назад +3

    That feel when you're both from Yoshkar-Ola and Bald's subscriber and you have no idea he's in your town, I'd certainly love to meet... I remember thinking 2 years ago wtf he was here a few days ago, it was kinda sad I missed the opportunity to meet Bald

  • @scatpack2
    @scatpack2 4 года назад +10

    On Mosaics: I have not yet heard Bald explain them like this: They are everywhere, and a traditional and common form of art, as it is an art form they inherited from Byzantium (Remember: Russia is the last Rome). Carried in tradition through the millennia in Russian culture and churches, etc. The somewhat more loose, and artistically splashy soviet re-invention of the ancient craft is rather novel and lovely I think. Love some good mosaics.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад +284

    You have the flu yet you still went out and made this, so dedicated to your fans. Love it

    • @gwnchilenzo
      @gwnchilenzo 4 года назад +2

      He's a straight up savage

    • @BoutaFit
      @BoutaFit 4 года назад +6

      Even drinks Vodka to help himself in the morning 🤣🤣

    • @bigman489
      @bigman489 4 года назад +1

      Avery the Cuban-American You mean Cuban-Floridian, never heard of a Cuban man outside of Florida.

    • @gazgaffa8437
      @gazgaffa8437 4 года назад +1

      Hes in Italy

    • @AlOmegarich
      @AlOmegarich 4 года назад +1

      Vodka is medicine

  • @sAmRivErsPT
    @sAmRivErsPT 4 года назад +257

    Coming home after a long and stressful day of work in London City and see that you have a new video online, is like going home back in the days after primary school and see that there is a new episode of my favourite cartoons on TV. Thank you for showing everyone the most unusual places. I didn't want to but you made me crack open a can of beer to properly enjoy these 18 minutes. You need to go to Norilsk (apparently Russia's most "depressing" city)

    • @adamhinds8352
      @adamhinds8352 4 года назад +24

      nailed it there mate, good explanation of how we feel when the bald one uploads

    • @uudong
      @uudong 4 года назад +2

      Do the people of Norilsk agree that it's the most depressing city of Russia?

    • @arturturkevych3816
      @arturturkevych3816 4 года назад +3

      @@uudong they seem to die very quickly and all the young want to escape, so probably yeah

    • @davranidrisov80
      @davranidrisov80 4 года назад +3

      There is no trees and any plants in Norilsk. (I'm sorry for my bad English)

    • @lukespread
      @lukespread 4 года назад

      Mr Bald. You must do Norilsk.

  • @Jevea
    @Jevea 4 года назад +105

    When you said: " It's about to piss down." I almost fell over laughing. That has to be an English saying.

    • @billbeynon7764
      @billbeynon7764 4 года назад +12

      Very much so and English saying.

    • @canunlu1879
      @canunlu1879 4 года назад +12

      Rocko99 Rocko99 Canadians love British culture and slang

    • @canunlu1879
      @canunlu1879 4 года назад +4

      Rocko99 Rocko99 look at drake he desperately wants to be British you also use a lot of our slang

    • @nicaskey1
      @nicaskey1 4 года назад +4

      We have two saying for our rain in England, piss down means to rain quite a lot however heavy rain we would say it’s pissing hard.

    • @blairwhyte3323
      @blairwhyte3323 4 года назад +1

      We say that in New Zealand too

  • @MarcoCuauhtemocMejia
    @MarcoCuauhtemocMejia 3 года назад +8

    “I am a big boy, you’ve heard the rumors.” Wow that was the most subtle and hilarious thing I’ve heard all year

  • @JohnMcMahon.
    @JohnMcMahon. 4 года назад +61

    Now we know why no busses to that town. (Roads)

  • @AntoheR1
    @AntoheR1 4 года назад +62

    OMG!!
    Living in Moscow I didn't know there are post-Soviet factories in Russia with SOVIET red flags like this one is!!!

    • @Sergei_kv82
      @Sergei_kv82 4 года назад +5

      Visist pridestrovia where it still is soviet times

    • @Cloxxki
      @Cloxxki 4 года назад

      How's Ben's grammar progressing? Did he still ignore it all?

    • @DimanM14and18
      @DimanM14and18 4 года назад

      @@Cloxxki yep
      but it is very easy to understand

    • @user-kw9cu
      @user-kw9cu 4 года назад +2

      @@Cloxxki At least he's swearing like a real russian

  • @vehgeto7101
    @vehgeto7101 4 года назад +18

    I was born in this city!
    This is so incredible that you visited it!

  • @Overlord99762
    @Overlord99762 3 года назад +26

    ''We've had a little stop becuase our backs are killing us''
    Driver: *proceeds to pee*

  • @fetsexe2274
    @fetsexe2274 4 года назад +67

    3:55 I'm from Belgium and those houses looked strangely familiar to the houses in our cities, was surprised you pointed that out
    love from Belgium, love your content

    • @arturturkevych3816
      @arturturkevych3816 4 года назад +2

      @Dennis but these buildings are modern and look very strange. The street is too wide and proportions are not right. Makes it very obvious that it's not western Europe and looks similar to Chinese knock offs

    • @evennot
      @evennot 4 года назад +3

      Though there are German-built houses all over Russia, in this particular case they were built by ambitious (and somewhat lunatic) republic leader (Markelov) rather recently. Though, they are not as awful as knockoffs that could be found in China, they did put some effort into making them. Anyway it's worth praising him for not giving up land to build some 40 stories high ghetto buildings, like some other leaders

    • @DOORNmedia
      @DOORNmedia 4 года назад +1

      fets exe klopt.
      Deed me vooral denken aan Gdansk en Kopenhagen,
      En ook Brugge/Gent.

  • @MurrayHerts
    @MurrayHerts 4 года назад +16

    12:16 that woman singing is very friendly and happy, lovely

  • @KevinEontrainer381
    @KevinEontrainer381 4 года назад +34

    Bald: *sees a falling meteor glowing red* "That is the most soviet meteor I've ever seen!"

  • @1st1anarkissed
    @1st1anarkissed 4 года назад +31

    I kept having flashbacks on this one to my own road trips. Looks exactly like northern canada, road conditions and all. I think it's the deep freeze in winter that somehow breaks roads faster than they can be repaired, plus sparse populations that can't afford to keep up.

    • @billtommpson1630
      @billtommpson1630 3 года назад +4

      Yeah it's the freezing then thawing expanding the pot holes bigger and bigger each year

  • @Pchyymlis
    @Pchyymlis 4 года назад +283

    Do you speak English?
    Da!🤣🤣

    • @sauliussh
      @sauliussh 4 года назад +2

      Čia gerai 😸

    • @pluki1357
      @pluki1357 4 года назад +24

      A Russian ship sails into harbour in UK.
      Matros sees a local person on the peer and wants him to catch a rope.
      - Xватай веревку!
      - ?
      - говоришь по-русски?
      - ?
      - Schprichst du Deutch?
      - ?
      - Tu parles Français?
      -?
      - Do you speak English?
      - Yes, I do!
      - Ну, хватай веревку…!

    • @mzplay308
      @mzplay308 4 года назад +1

      @@pluki1357 jak smieszne, kurwa

  • @biglezmate3830
    @biglezmate3830 4 года назад +134

    I'm really enjoying this language series. Keep it up and don't get too drunk.

    • @ItsMikeLearns
      @ItsMikeLearns 4 года назад

      its really nice :)

    • @ItsMikeLearns
      @ItsMikeLearns 4 года назад

      @@biglezmate3830 maybe or maybe not! :) but i do agree with your comment tho

    • @ItsMikeLearns
      @ItsMikeLearns 4 года назад +1

      @@rkan2 i completely agree with you! i guess he is too sick to do that maybe next video!

    • @user-ec2kd8sz3t
      @user-ec2kd8sz3t 4 года назад +1

      I agree with liking the language series... I disagree strongly with the not getting too drunk part. A couple bottles of vodka is just what you need to clear up that cold, Bald!

    • @TrystaneTheBlack
      @TrystaneTheBlack 4 года назад

      fuck yeah fucking oath

  • @essoplorgat7485
    @essoplorgat7485 4 года назад +2

    Hi Bald,
    i love your banter,with Alena you make a awesome team.
    Essop SOUTH AFRICA

  • @Arsenico971
    @Arsenico971 4 года назад +14

    This takes me back to my old road trip across SIberia. Hundreds of kilometres of such roads, it's unforgettable.

  • @foreverhungry84
    @foreverhungry84 4 года назад +27

    man some of these little villages look like paradise and such friendly people

    • @KingDayDayDay00
      @KingDayDayDay00 4 года назад +3

      They dont have much but sometimes it's the least wealthy places that are full of the nicest and warmest people

    • @katiempojer
      @katiempojer 4 года назад

      I agree

    • @russianbear420
      @russianbear420 4 года назад +2

      One of the reasons I love Ben. He goes on epic adventures to places like this that buses do not go to. And he shows how all people are basically the same and 95% good people who want to help. Great channel and doing great work closing the gap between cultures!

  • @Martsadog
    @Martsadog 4 года назад +267

    13:50 when you notice a german spy comrade: ''Guten Tag''

    • @user-pw5rp4qt1o
      @user-pw5rp4qt1o 4 года назад +32

      she thought he was german hahaha

    • @iwantnod
      @iwantnod 4 года назад +51

      @@user-pw5rp4qt1o Before US dominated the world, soviet schools taught either English or German (rarely French or Spanish). Many older people learned German as their only foreign language, and I think this old lady is one of them.

    • @deltanovember1672
      @deltanovember1672 4 года назад +1

      Хрюн Моржов Makes sense.

    • @wrangle123
      @wrangle123 4 года назад +3

      English are largely a germanic people, so maybe she can tell the difference between a germanic and a slavic from facial features?

    • @vaevictis2789
      @vaevictis2789 4 года назад +3

      @@wrangle123 Ben looks pretty slavic, so...

  • @BriskSundew-cl4ug
    @BriskSundew-cl4ug 3 года назад +8

    The taxi guy is so good, hope you tipped him dude, nice vid!

  • @MrMongoose221
    @MrMongoose221 4 года назад +32

    I never wanted to go to Russia until I saw your videos I always had a bad impression of the place due to the media but not anymore.

    • @lesiaa3179
      @lesiaa3179 3 года назад +5

      MrMongoose221 too much propaganda, we are friendly, come over, I'll show around

  • @DarkAgeDan
    @DarkAgeDan 4 года назад +379

    I hope you gave that driver a nice tip. He definitely mess up his tires.

    • @seawa1256
      @seawa1256 4 года назад +45

      DarkAgeDan not only tires…wheel alignment… shock absorbers , struts ,brakes , rotors and so on…

    • @forty-second
      @forty-second 4 года назад +49

      @@seawa1256 let's sum up - the guy left his suspension on that road.

    • @hudsontoo1212
      @hudsontoo1212 4 года назад +24

      He seemed like a solidly awesome person too. I hope he took care of him- I mean, he’s got millions of subs.... so he ain’t broke anymore. But Bald and Broke is such a nice guy, I’m sure he did the right thing

    • @hudsontoo1212
      @hudsontoo1212 4 года назад +6

      Also- I’d be like a pig in shit out there- I drive all over the United States just looking for roads like that to drive my TRD Off Road 4Runner!!! They’re lucky they have no infrastructure- I’d LOVE it!

    • @ii-wv4cs
      @ii-wv4cs 4 года назад

      Tony Mancini wheel alignment is good.

  • @sergey7375
    @sergey7375 4 года назад +48

    Bald, the babushka notice was actually a missing notice. "She was said to have gone in an unknown direction" it says.

  • @LornaKellyZim
    @LornaKellyZim 4 года назад +85

    That "bad road" was quite respectable compared to Zimbabwe roads!

    • @pratyush_t
      @pratyush_t 4 года назад +4

      @Zigga87 ah c'mon. Don't be a dumb. Have you really seen all the Indian roads? There are bad roads everywhere, does that mean every road of that nation is bad?

    • @generalrotholz977
      @generalrotholz977 4 года назад +8

      @@pratyush_t Hit a nerve

    • @pratyush_t
      @pratyush_t 4 года назад +3

      @@generalrotholz977 Nothing that of hitting a nerve mate. Spoke just simple facts.

    • @user-lr9ff7lg8e
      @user-lr9ff7lg8e 3 года назад +1

      Довольно позорно сравниваться с Зимбабве, надеюсь, что когда-нибудь исправят дороги в таких глухих местах, а то стыдно за страну(((

    • @nomadenview
      @nomadenview 3 года назад

      Bad road?
      Indonesia : hold my rendang

  • @user-oi4gn3pb1j
    @user-oi4gn3pb1j 4 года назад +50

    Там написано, что бабушка пропала без вести. Она не преступница😅

  • @bencebob8055
    @bencebob8055 4 года назад +35

    you said don't expect too much from this video but i really enjoyed it ! :D

  • @konstantinepikhin6793
    @konstantinepikhin6793 4 года назад +26

    You're incredible guy, seriously. I've lived in Russia for 28 years and didn't know what locals can be such welcoming to the stranger :)

  • @maiqtheliar3652
    @maiqtheliar3652 4 года назад +14

    *Amsterdam, somewhere in Belgium *

  • @Petrajac88
    @Petrajac88 4 года назад +8

    these roads look like half the ones here in Cranbrook BC Canada, no lie.

    • @ToastytheG
      @ToastytheG 4 года назад

      People live about the same quality of life, too. That's what government tyranny does.

    • @Petrajac88
      @Petrajac88 4 года назад +1

      @@ToastytheG that's just not true.

  • @Autunite
    @Autunite 4 года назад +107

    Taxi driver must go crazy after all the sightseeing stops of yours. Made great content though, keep it up!!

    • @JnixMarshel
      @JnixMarshel 4 года назад +27

      He seemed like a really good guy. Probably got paid extra too. Lol

    • @Autunite
      @Autunite 4 года назад +3

      ​@@JnixMarshel Definitely a great guy, and I really hope so.

    • @ArthurGoodness
      @ArthurGoodness 4 года назад

      im sure he didn't go THAT crazy when he got paid :)

    • @rightcoast7049
      @rightcoast7049 4 года назад +8

      @Henry Tudor I'm sure he tipped him. He's been very generous in a lot of his videos. Sure he isn't reckless with his money, but he treats people right when they do the same to him.

    • @benwest7420
      @benwest7420 4 года назад +1

      Uncle Chuckles Wrong video, mate

  • @lukaskristensen8055
    @lukaskristensen8055 4 года назад +81

    why does people dislike these videos? he should be much more famous for these travel videos!!!

    • @alvinwine5665
      @alvinwine5665 4 года назад +3

      I agree I think it is truly great the look into places the world will never get to see otherwise.

    • @icreatedanaccountforthis1852
      @icreatedanaccountforthis1852 4 года назад +12

      I don’t like him because he has no hair or money.

    • @samzilman9475
      @samzilman9475 4 года назад

      100% yes! Benjamin is the Best!

    • @susanapollo284
      @susanapollo284 4 года назад

      He is more interested in how people live in Russia than the language he pretends to find speakers.

    • @Solaxe
      @Solaxe 4 года назад +1

      @@shirleygreer7209 they were joking you moron... the channel is literally "bald and bankrupt"...

  • @kaluginden
    @kaluginden 4 года назад +5

    U are awesome, more and more learning about my country! Thank you!

  • @Alvaro_Litti
    @Alvaro_Litti 4 года назад +164

    Hope the Finno-ugric languages will be preserved in Russia 😪

    • @Aaron-sl5qh
      @Aaron-sl5qh 4 года назад +12

      I really hope so

    • @Aaron-sl5qh
      @Aaron-sl5qh 4 года назад +4

      @@Q_QQ_Q But still most of Mordovia or Circassia is russian so those languages arent exactly preserved

    • @user-hy1wv4so9w
      @user-hy1wv4so9w 4 года назад

      ҳҲ̸Ҳ̸ҳ “separate” doesn’t really that mean))

    • @Aaron-sl5qh
      @Aaron-sl5qh 4 года назад +1

      ҳҲ̸Ҳ̸ҳ Of course they should, actually kalmykian has a good status nowadays

    • @tapsarautanen
      @tapsarautanen 4 года назад +3

      Not sure what the fate of these language will be but, just in case someone is interested, there is a ridiculously large and complete public domain course available at the site of the Vienna University called Оҥай марий йылме (it is actually available both in English and Russian, panic not). I had some experience with Sámi language and in the time I somehow learned one of the languages other four of them disappeared so it may be completely irrelevant for the languages but it is a good way to kill some time while in quarantine, especially if you already know some other Uralic language.

  • @soloshotfirst1118
    @soloshotfirst1118 4 года назад +22

    13:34
    Those people on the poster are not only wanted by the cops, it's also people who are missing. It says in russian that the old lady was last seen here and such and such, and that she is simply missing, not that she has done anything wrong. Hope she is well.

    • @pete531
      @pete531 4 года назад +2

      Sadly old woman is probably dead, twisted her ankle or something in the middle of nowhere and died. Roaming the streets of the villages you are lucky if you see a person, imagine in the wilderness

  • @tjrblmstr
    @tjrblmstr 4 года назад +277

    Yoshkar Ola is my native city. I still can't believe that Englishman visited my city. Thank you!
    P.S. The roads are really terrible :)

    • @dortoka
      @dortoka 4 года назад +6

      terrible roads? welcome to russia

    • @lypcizhenaf8988
      @lypcizhenaf8988 4 года назад +1

      Haxhi Bajrami Sepse jan fukarallak n’rusi, a e ke pa ti Kosoven?

    • @merkabah2
      @merkabah2 4 года назад

      @Haxhi Bajrami :|

    • @merkabah2
      @merkabah2 4 года назад +2

      heheeheh nice :)
      seems like the people there are really nice and warm and helpful

    • @tjrblmstr
      @tjrblmstr 4 года назад +7

      Mat A Yes, it is. I think that more a country is cold, more people is warm :)

  • @kkrot81
    @kkrot81 3 года назад +6

    Bless his heart, so sick. 😞 love from Texas, USA! 🇺🇸 ❤️

  • @mikahakkinen5651
    @mikahakkinen5651 4 года назад +58

    a have seen this kind of roads in finland too.

  • @bencebudai6690
    @bencebudai6690 4 года назад +113

    Mari is an Uralic language just like Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian.

    • @tauno908
      @tauno908 4 года назад +1

      Sounds like türkish

    • @ColbyCodner
      @ColbyCodner 4 года назад +14

      It sounded a bit like Hungarian.

    • @avigdonable
      @avigdonable 4 года назад +2

      The last pagans of Europe were Lithuanians or some other Old Prussian tribe.

    • @JLieppinen
      @JLieppinen 4 года назад +1

      Mari is also a female name in Finnish

    • @VisiblyJacked
      @VisiblyJacked 4 года назад +5

      @@avigdonable no, the Mari still are pagans and are in Europe.

  • @zsoltsandor3814
    @zsoltsandor3814 4 года назад +136

    Btw, Mari language is a Uralic language, related to as far geographically as Finnish and Hungarian.
    You should visit the Udmurt Republic, they are super proud of their Udmurt identity.

    • @-andreiDNA
      @-andreiDNA 4 года назад +1

      Not everyone in Mari-El is Mari.

    • @zsoltsandor3814
      @zsoltsandor3814 4 года назад +10

      @@-andreiDNA I didn't say that though. 🤔

    • @-andreiDNA
      @-andreiDNA 4 года назад +3

      @@zsoltsandor3814
      I'm sorry I misunderstood what you meant.
      But i dont like when people on English RUclips think that Russian republics are all populated by non-russians. I live in Mari el and am Russian, and so are most of the people I know.
      I don't want people to think we don't exist here.

    • @zsoltsandor3814
      @zsoltsandor3814 4 года назад +20

      @@-andreiDNA It's obvious that in such a vast federation like Russia there are all kinds of nationalities living all over the place, due to whatever historical or personal reasons. It's all history.
      But as a Hungarian I love stuff about my language relatives. I'm kind of a language nerd, but nowhere near professional. :)

    • @juliajuhasz7679
      @juliajuhasz7679 4 года назад +11

      @@zsoltsandor3814 Really? Our language is related to Mari language? I have learned something new, thx :)

  • @goodwinnihon
    @goodwinnihon 4 года назад +73

    finding soviet artifacts is like discovering vestiges of erstwhile highly advanced civilization

  • @lucanthunder
    @lucanthunder 4 года назад +58

    I'd love to see some of that Soviet era stuff...so interesting. Growing up in the States at that time I was always so curious about life in the USSR

    • @Me-ru6cl
      @Me-ru6cl 4 года назад +1

      Luca Pierucci not pretty trust me

    • @user-hy1wv4so9w
      @user-hy1wv4so9w 4 года назад +3

      Just me stfu “not pretty”
      Have you live there?

    • @Brakvash
      @Brakvash 4 года назад

      @@user-hy1wv4so9w have you yourself lived in the Soviet Union?

    • @irina8551
      @irina8551 4 года назад +6

      Dont trust JUST ME , our problems then seem small and trifle to contemporary problems of the young-we have free education(and really not bad, we have free medical care, small dwellings, but free, and decent pensions at 55 , usually pensioners helped thear children, and free clubs for childre- in my class most of us studied in musical schools, I learnt English far from Moscow with Soviet teachers, I studied in the same scholl with Gergiev(if you dont know his name, serf internet)

    • @irina8551
      @irina8551 4 года назад +1

      Sorry, have got some mistakes in spelling but they dont change the meaning

  • @geofflord2739
    @geofflord2739 4 года назад +45

    very few things in life bring me as much joy as your videos mr bald!

  • @mie...
    @mie... 4 года назад +27

    You have alot of guts going to all these remote places. I am living vicariously through you!

    • @mie...
      @mie... 4 года назад

      I have never been to Russia so I can’t debate with you on whether it is dangerous there or not, but it’s all relative and compared to Switzerland statistically crime is higher in Russia. Going to these areas in the middle of nowhere on your own with a camera which cost the equivalent of one year’s salary (to local people) is a huge risk. I know Ben is more than capable of looking after himself but there are bad people out there who will take advantage. As a female I know I could never do even though I would love to.

    • @badhero88
      @badhero88 4 года назад +1

      @@mie... Despite looking shitty It's probably not as bad as you'r portraying it. The average salary there is approximately $400 which is not great but not terrible either. Tbf, mostly it's much safer traveling there than in city ghetto areas because those places are so remote and uninhabited and locals know each other's faces, so he's probably less likely getting mugged or murdered for his $300 camera in daylight

  • @michaelenderson1998
    @michaelenderson1998 Год назад +1

    Mr. Bald I always look forward to watching your new videos and re-watching old ones. If I could like video multiple times I would. I just want you to know I appreciate the work you do. Thank you.

  • @mrfridrich2915
    @mrfridrich2915 4 года назад +229

    08:45, сидишь такой в деревянном сиденье от батиного урала, едете на богом забытую дачу, и тут англичанин спрашивает тебя, как доехать до Марки.

    • @LAGaming117
      @LAGaming117 4 года назад +95

      Yep exactly what I was thinking guys. Glad we all agree

    • @Oleg.G.
      @Oleg.G. 4 года назад +16

      Это не Урал, а газонокосилка! 8:57 Ба-ха-ха-ха...

    • @sashaeur
      @sashaeur 4 года назад +19

      @@dantherman4202 желаю чтоб эти люди как можно дольше незнали об интернете и катались с дядькой на мотоблоке в лес по ягоды...

    • @davranidrisov80
      @davranidrisov80 4 года назад +5

      Мотоблок рулит 👍👍👍

    • @alexandertsiolkovski5848
      @alexandertsiolkovski5848 4 года назад +18

      @@sashaeur Completely agree. The last thing these beautiful people need is "modernity" and internet and erosion of their culture. I am by no means anti-development, but I would love to go back to an older past where people are simple and love nature.

  • @oleglovky
    @oleglovky 4 года назад +385

    Saying 'blyat' every other word... Ben is basically a local at this point

    • @WeedSmokinRepublican
      @WeedSmokinRepublican 4 года назад +4

      Commander Shepard is his name really Ben?

    • @oleglovky
      @oleglovky 4 года назад +3

      @@WeedSmokinRepublican It is

    • @Vicariousleighilive..
      @Vicariousleighilive.. 4 года назад +13

      I thought he was saying blin

    • @Oleg-oe1rc
      @Oleg-oe1rc 4 года назад +8

      @@Vicariousleighilive.. He was doing a bit of both. And kind of funny, because "blin" is kind of like saying "fudge" instead of "fuck". Somthing you'd say to cover your ass while talking around parents or somthing, bit odd to say it around somone you don't care about swearing infront of.

    • @deprimat666
      @deprimat666 4 года назад +12

      Blyat isn't local it's what the stupid gopniks say and wanna be Slavs from America say it more

  • @catherinegoldie3432
    @catherinegoldie3432 4 года назад +15

    Mr Bald you are a star, I mean Tsar HaHa💕

  • @lmd6204
    @lmd6204 3 года назад +15

    I love your videos of traveling Russia. I wish you would display on a map the regions you are traveling to get an idea of where these places are located. Very interesting to see these old towns and culture.

  • @loffagood556
    @loffagood556 4 года назад +44

    for 1500 rubles you could probably go 2-3 km. in Norway...

    • @avigdonable
      @avigdonable 4 года назад +2

      Loffa Good Yes, but in Tesla, not Hongqui

    • @loffagood556
      @loffagood556 4 года назад +2

      @Mr. Foxo 1500 Rubles = 200 NOK

    • @tobiastranetellefsen4203
      @tobiastranetellefsen4203 4 года назад

      @Mr. Foxo Nope😂😂 they take NOK/Norwegian kroner here.

    • @Taipans
      @Taipans 4 года назад +1

      Loffa Good How much is that in freedom dollars?

    • @250sabre
      @250sabre 4 года назад

      Funny as hell !! 😂😂😂

  • @supersonic79
    @supersonic79 4 года назад +123

    Think I saw your taxi driver on the wanted board Bald. Haha

  • @shutterinsight
    @shutterinsight 2 года назад +4

    Not the worst I’ve been on in Russia, we went up a hill near Samara in a Zhiguli and nearly got stuck.
    Speaking of Samara, you should really visit there. They have some great Soviet architecture. It used to be the centre of the space industry in the ussr. They have a space rocket still standing in the centre with a museum with some used satellites. My wife’s grandfather used to be a scientist who developed the heat shielding on them.
    Anyway, I’m rambling. Visit Samara, you’ll love it

  • @qi8576
    @qi8576 3 года назад +38

    “Despite the flu” hasn’t aged well

  • @tookster7483
    @tookster7483 4 года назад +58

    My man, Bald, spreading the flu all across Soviet Russia!

    • @user-xe4yb5xc8t
      @user-xe4yb5xc8t 4 года назад +6

      it`s Soviet Soviet Soviet Russia according to Bald