I became a witness of a coincidental meeting of three red VAZ cars in one puddle.
One VAZ-2101 and two VAZ-2103
Wandered in Melitopol outskirts during a couple of very rainy days.
I became a witness of a coincidental meeting of three red VAZ cars in one puddle.
Never before had I known about the existence of this unfinished and tiny wastewater processing plant on the very edge of the town. An elevated road (also unfinished) was made to access the tanks from the top.
Concrete boxes of rectangular settling tanks were standing nearby.
A channel was dug in the direction of Molochna river for the processed water discharge, but not completed and left to be slowly reclaimed by nature. Its shape was lost, the trees started to grow inside, and people were using it as a waste pit.
A dull view of private houses was available from that elevated road ramp, showing us what color the local bricks were.
The dogs were using this unfinished construction as shelter during the winters. One dog came to us with an inspection.
The edge of rain was near the Sadove suburb of Melitopol. Clouds were hanging over Melitopol.
Melitopol had a bypass road, near which the Kakhovka-Berdyansk channel had been planned and partially completed. It was not an easy project, because the artificial channel needed to cross both hills and valleys, as well as natural water bodies such as the Molochna river — the whole way from Dnieper to Berdyansk region. I have a couple of bad photos from this channel's another river crossing (see my other story about Melitopol). The channel was supposed to descend from the high bank of Molochna river valley, hide into a pipe and flow over the river, laughing at the plans of gods.
Some elements of the upstream part of channel are visible on the hill. That thing was the spillway for excess waters, if any.
The pipe was around 3 meters in diameter. It had nice reverberation inside, with its resonating frequency being slightly above the B-flat note. Such notes, if sounded inside the pipe, were sustained for around 10 seconds.
I have a low-res video from inside this pipe, including the resonating frequency.
There wasn't a lot of garbage or writings on the walls inside the pipe — to my surprise. The light visible in the pipe was coming from the holes cut by scrap metal thieves.
From this hole,
and from other numerous holes made by thieves.
I got on top of the pipe and got a nice view from there. This is the Molochna river below.
That pipe continued under an embankment for two kilometers, where it crossed another water body — the Saga lake. Even more two kilometers from there — and it resolved into the open concrete riverbed. I did not go there that time.
The land around the Saga lake had the status of a reserve called «Цілинна ділянка», meaning «an untouched area».
The road to Kostyantynivka had the sign reads «Thank you for clean roadsides» surrounded by garbage, ironically.
It is an artificial, managed forest with sections of coniferous and deciduous trees. Some glades like this one existed inside it.
The high side of Molochna river valley had lots of garbage of various sorts and a wide view of cultivated flatland of the opposite bank.
People seemed to quit writing public transport stop names on signs.
It rained for around 20 hours a day for several days. We saw clouds of many types above. Apocalyptic,
gigantic,
but nevertheless nice.
I caught this last sunray of the day from a train window.