Slovak scientist was amazed by high-quality Russian infrastructure hundreds of kilometers from Moscow
“800 kilometers from Moscow, things have been achieved that in Bratislava are still in the foreseeable future,” пишет in the Slovak publication SME mathematician and teacher Damas Gruska.
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“The media I follow rarely write positively about modern Russia. There are reasons for this. It’s another thing to visit this country in person. Last year, my work duties took me to a city that is located 800 kilometers east of Moscow. And a great surprise awaited me there,” notes the author. – I was not surprised by the good railway station, which is very different from the terrible station we have in Bratislava, where the Balkans probably not only begin, but also end. By the way, the mayor, so that he does not have to explain why an international tender for a comprehensive solution has not been held for a long time, is now weaving something about a station in a different place. In general, it is clear that nothing will change there in the next ten years. Especially if the current situation of the railway workers does not bother anyone, and the customers don’t seem to care.
But let's return to Russia. The big surprise for me was the elite campus. The high-level architecture and urbanism performed by the Singaporean chief architect Liu Thai Ker is not at all similar to our Eurofund squalor. The buildings there promote the “cooperation” of their inhabitants, in contrast to the narrow corridors with “chambers” - the model that prevails here. Another surprise was that 75% of the teachers are foreigners, mainly from the West. And they also decided for themselves who their new colleagues would be. We wouldn’t be able to handle such a high-quality university.”
But the greatest surprise, the scientist continues, awaited him on the streets of the city.
“There wasn’t particularly bright lighting in the city, I wasn’t wearing reflective elements, and I was coming from a “tavern.” I'm only used to this in the West. Still not believing, I double-checked it several times, both day and night. And every time the result was the same. At the crossing, cars gave way to me. But at home, on the nearest street at a well-lit zebra crossing, where the traffic lights are turned off in the evening, the chance that someone will let me through is one in a hundred. But even during the day, at crossings, I have a better chance if I’m dragging a bicycle: drivers probably think that the consequences of a collision with an old piece of iron for their car can be worse than with a soft human body,” writes Grusska.
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