{"id":3493,"date":"2024-04-25T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circumnavigate.blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2024-04-30T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:09:01","slug":"13-june-2023-ulyanovsk-lena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circumnavigate.blog\/en\/13-june-2023-ulyanovsk-lena\/","title":{"rendered":"13 June 2023 &#8211; Ulyanovsk: Lena"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Oleg leaves, Lena arrives, and we continue south along the Volga, without a<br \/>\nplan, until we stop at a marina that stretches out into the Volga and is<br \/>\nflooded by it &#8211; we are in Ulyanovsk. The city itself lies high above the<br \/>\nVolga; between the marina and the high plateau is a beautifully landscaped<br \/>\npark, which we stroll up. I don&#8217;t need to say anything more about Lena:<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve known each other since 1989, when we met at a desert camp in Gobi<br \/>\n(Mongolia) and have visited each other again and again over the years, her<br \/>\nfamily in Switzerland and me and my family in Siberia. Lena gave me<br \/>\nfantastic support for this project of circumnavigating Europe in a RIB,<br \/>\nobtained a Russian boat licence and accompanied me as a pilot from Murmansk<br \/>\nto St. Petersburg last year. Isn&#8217;t that fantastic?<\/p>\n<p>Lena loves travelling at least as much as I do, and after stopping here<br \/>\nunexpectedly, she seems delighted to be in this historic place &#8211; Ulyanovsk<br \/>\nis the birthplace of the revolutionary &#8216;Lenin&#8217;, who turned the world upside<br \/>\ndown around a hundred years ago. Although we view the figure of &#8216;Lenin&#8217;<br \/>\ndifferently, or perhaps precisely because of this, we found the perfect<br \/>\nopportunity here to discuss the development of the past century and to<br \/>\nvisualise the evidence and traces that led him also to Switzerland from this<br \/>\nplace (which was renamed after his family name Uljanow). &#8211; Lena is visibly<br \/>\nproud of her country&#8217;s achievements since the revolution, and with her<br \/>\nenthusiasm she always succeeds in opening the hearts of the people on our<br \/>\nway and allowing me to gain an insight into the souls of her compatriots.<br \/>\nBecause she reaches out to people, she is also skilled at spontaneously<br \/>\norganising the impossible&#8230; That promises to be fun&#8230; And I am already<br \/>\nlooking forward to our journey together to Sochi in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-begegnungen-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>13 June 2023 - Ulyanovsk: Lena - Circumnavigate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/circumnavigate.blog\/en\/13-june-2023-ulyanovsk-lena\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"13 June 2023 - Ulyanovsk: Lena - Circumnavigate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/circumnavigate.blog\/en\/13-june-2023-ulyanovsk-lena\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Circumnavigate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-25T19:22:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T19:09:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/circumnavigate.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Karte-CNE23-2-03-Ulianowsk.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1848\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"858\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Circum_admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Circum_admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/circumnavigate.blog\\\/en\\\/13-june-2023-ulyanovsk-lena\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/circumnavigate.blog\\\/en\\\/13-june-2023-ulyanovsk-lena\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Circum_admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/circumnavigate.blog\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/88667f08c1ff49f151989800116ea36f\"},\"headline\":\"13 June 2023 &#8211; 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