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Date: 2006-09-07 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] s2c-stgermain.livejournal.com
The windows of the house in the first pictures are very peculiar. Is it typical of Russia or of this particular place?

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Date: 2006-09-07 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com
they look quite usual to me.

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Date: 2006-09-07 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] s2c-stgermain.livejournal.com
That sort of answers my question, LOL

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Date: 2006-09-07 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sylys.livejournal.com
Je confirme, c'est du double vitrage à la russe: Deux fenêtres séparées d'une vingtaine de centimètres, chacune étant subdivisées en fenêtres de tailles diverses - pour permettre je suppose une aération variable sans se les geler l'hiver quand il fait -30 dehors !

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Date: 2006-09-08 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emma-loy.livejournal.com
wow! sounds great! is this latin? anyway, i translated it with altavista and can say that you are probably right: fortochki (openable quarters in the upper part of a window) provide somewhat finer climat-control in the winter: you can open them without disturbing the whole of the window which is traditionally glued up with stripes of paper in winter to stop any tiny draught from outside. and since fortochka is placed in the very upper part of the window cold air getting inside and going down is distibuted more evenly around the room.

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Date: 2006-09-08 06:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com
and i wondered why i couldn't find a satisfying translation for 'fortochka', heh-heh-heh. window leaf!

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Date: 2006-09-08 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emma-loy.livejournal.com
that clappy thing up the window!

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Date: 2006-09-08 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] s2c-stgermain.livejournal.com
Ah oui, c'est astucieux !

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Date: 2006-09-08 10:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com
that's how we russians are, astucieux. trés astucieux.

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Date: 2006-09-08 05:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nelen.livejournal.com
I like all of these, but especially the long-john underpants, hanging in isolation, high up among the trees :)

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Date: 2006-09-08 10:30 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Yeah how the hell did they get there?

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Date: 2006-09-09 11:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com
To answer Anon.'s question, I think I can see two wires, so I'm picking they can be wound out and in.

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Date: 2006-09-09 11:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com
what a sly little contraption :))

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Date: 2006-09-09 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com
Or maybe raised and lowered from the ground.

Though hardly sly, as it's a common form of clothes line in some places...

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