Typical Smolensk - special signs

1. Friends and acquaintances constantly ask you not to gack.
2. You call your lips “mushrooms,” and as a child, grandmothers promised to kick your mushrooms.
3. You stubbornly call beets a burak and can’t understand why other people call your favorite buraks potato pancakes.
4. You often hear stories of people who “climbed on the kettle” because the “teapot” in Smolensk is called the now abandoned first city seven-storey building of the 1930s, which offers the best view of the Assumption Cathedral.
5. You sit without hot water for three months every year and still haven’t bought a water heater, because you believe that this year the next overhaul of the heating grid will finally be completed.
6. During a heavy rainstorm, you push the trolleybus out of the puddle with your own hands, carry out minibus passengers on your hands and regularly close the doors in the tram.
7. You know for sure that the inhabitants of Smolensk are called “Smolensk”, not “Smolensk” and not “Smolensk residents”.
8. You know that on April 10, 2010, the Polish side number one fell not near Smolensk, but in Smolensk, and that the memorial to the shot Polish officers is correct to call Katyn, not Katyn.
9. You think that SOBR in the city hall is normal, and are used to the fact that the mayors do not stay long.
10. You know for sure that the first cosmonaut on the planet Yuri Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region, and not somewhere in the north or in Siberia.
11. When treating guests with tea or coffee, you ask how many spoons of sand to add to their cups, because sand is nothing but sugar.
12. You know that the Smolensk Fortress Wall is longer than the Moscow Kremlin, and the key city appeared much earlier than the one outside the door.
13. At the word "Belarus" you have thoughts about discounts, sales and sausage, because all Smolyans go to Vitebsk, Minsk and Orsha for shopping.
14. In your family photo archive, you will definitely find a photo near the Goering deer, on the horns of a deer, under a deer, on a deer, and this deer also has its own microblog.
15. You don't like big anniversaries.

And finally, you are a real Smolensk if you are sure that Smolensk is the best city in the world. As you know, Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote: In Russia there are few cities that can argue with Smolensk their celebrity. Smolensk existed when there was no mention of the Russian state. (...) In the XII century, Smolensk was already a classical education, studying Greek and Latin. When Moscow was founded, Smolensk became, in the words of our ancestors, an expensive necklace of Russia, which, however, no less cherished Moscow and Lithuania. When Smolensk was finally annexed to Russia, it became the right hand of Moscow in patriotism. He opened his hand against every enemy who attempted to attack Moscow, and squeezed it into a fist to guide him when Moscow began to persecute him.

Come to Smolensk, we will show you the most interesting and unusual, introduce you to amazing people and stunning historical facts, make your holiday rich and full of emotions.