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March 17. We are in Magadan city for half-month already. There is no any opportunity to order the AN-2 plane. The weather was not flying. On Saturday, the 15 of March, the plane stood in the plan. But today it is not in the plan. Today a man has come; his son flies on helicopter. He has left the telephone number. His son in Ochotsk now and will be here only by a weekend. Today we'll order a plane flight, and may be not. It is ridiculously. And all have bothered. All, all, all!!!
April 15. March 22 we had a flight from Magadan city to Inja village. The price of that custom-made flight was about 17.200.000 rubles (in money of inflation period). On Inja we were already waited by a tax inspection. They have ordered a squad of militia. Two days prior to our arrival they have checked the rests in our small shop. In the evening of that day, during the check there was turmoil and somebody had stolen a new teapot ordered by Kolja Archipov and Ivan's sable fur hat. On a plane platform Yura, Ivan's son, met us. He has remained with us till the morning. We did not slept till five in the morning, divided the goods for Inja and Ochotsk Airport, where we were going the coming days.
That night the plane has stayed on Inja. The next day, we have departed to Ochotsk by this plane. Yura has departed with us, - he has a school vacation now. We have stayed in Ochotsk for one week. The trade was good. All boots "Vigorous" have scattered, and people have given us an advance payment for 15 pairs of boots. We have passed a year report in tax inspection office. Ivan is a good lad, has exited with normal results, gone away from 20 millions of old rubles of tax for the last year.
On Inja a stock of potato, which we took on barter last autumn, has come into rot. Now it was necessary to take out that potato on forage to cattle. Eight tons! 24.000.000 of old rubles. Flown into a rubbish-heap. It was one more our large miss. Last week we traded in Inja. The prices were strongly diminished, sometimes to purchasing ones; and spoilage (Chinese costumes) - up to 50 % from purchasing prices. Almost nothing remained. We were lucky this time. We appeared here at the time of issue of salaries. Budget workers had received money for three last months. Indemnification on children and pension were given. We traded since morning till night. There is no time to remember about meal. There is no even thought about the preparation of food. We eat chocolate sticks and coffee. Who would know, how this meal makes us sick.
On Friday, the fourth of April, we made a break in trade. We run on half an hour to the village registry office, have registered marriage. And then we run home. In an entrance already there was a queue of the buyers. The next day we should depart to Magadan. The plane stood in the plan. We prepared all night for a start. Ivan dug out containers with caviar from a cellar, which we earlier took on barter, and dug deep in a cellar, as far as possible from eyes of local mafia fish inspectors and militia. Couple of years ago these "friends" handed over a caviar to us, in order we have sold it, but now the caviar trade is only their business. We had no time to prepare for a flight start. I asked the God to spoil the weather. And He has helped. In the morning a snow has tumbled down, clouds have tightened all sky. We have departed only on Tuesday, the 8-th of April. Have stayed in Magadan for one week. At first we waited for our machine GAZel from repair. We left it earlier to our friend Grisha.
They have replaced a disk of coupling clutch. Our carburetor and air filter were changed and adjusted by UAZ's ones. They have repaired the door lock on a luggage compartment, have leveled and recoloured a back door and back bumper. Have repaired the lever of a gearbox. Melted the muffler tube. All this work costs 1.800.000 of old rubles. We also paid Grisha 1.000.000 rubles for use of his office, telephone, residing, and transportation on Magadan etc.
We examined variants of way to Moscow. To ship the cargo in the car and to rode on it till Moscow, or to ship both cargo and car aboard the plane and to fly there. The car we have taken away from repair the 10-th of April. The results on sending the cargo by plane are not ready yet. On evenings Ivan teaches Yura and me to driving. Yura is eleven years. Ivan is not pleased with results yet. Alas, our hopes have failed on Monday, - cargo airflight have been postponed for one week more. Hardly there will be a place for us. Spring rushes rigorously. In the afternoons temperature sharply rises, all thaws, flows. Weather forecasters transfer, that in the middle Yakutia in the afternoon time the temperature rises up to + 150C, and in Siberia up to + 200C. Zimnik road is already have closed officially. Yesterday at last we have received the veterinary certificates on the fish production. It is the large nonsense, - the veterinary certificates are being prepared several days, and the fish is spoiled during the check in the intermediate town. On Friday we have handed over all caviar in Magadan. In the machine now there are only about one ton of a smoked fish and Ivan's physics and mathematics books, which he has decided to transport either to Nikopol, or to Moscow, there where we shall stop, to a new residence. The books weight is about 150-200 kg.
We wanted to go away at night from Monday on Tuesday, but near the houses our car fell down into a deep wet snow. Top crust of ice became weak and has failed under a cargo to half-wheels in friable snow under a crust.
We have gone away on April 15, on Tuesday, at 14.00 of Magadan time. In a return way Yura goes with us. He has decided to live with us, though his mum dissuaded him. It is necessary to hurry up, - he misses a school. There is a moped zimnik road ahead. The probability that we shall overcome this way is only 30 %. Old drivers speak, that we shall be stopped against a deep mud in two days, and in four days we shall return to Magadan.
But Ivan is desperate, tries to rush by. At night we have broken a shovel. In the beginning, immediately at once after departure from the city something has whistled in the motor. It was fastening of air filter. UAZ's fastening are not suitable for our GAZel, it musts be changed.
At departure there were 10749 kms on speedometer. Now we go back by the same road, up to Susuman.
(A piece of a diary is lost here)
... Completely impassable for our car. We hang above a track; the machine sits on axles. We failed to overcome the entrance on zimnik road independently. MAZ has dragged us on a cable. It also has only one driving axle, back. But drivers had twined the wheels by chains, which dig ruts more and more deeply, up to the firm frozen ground. We have given the drivers 1 liter of brandy. Now they sit behind, have dinner, probably drink. Promised to insure us, but their insurance is very strange. They drive off forward and look at us how we skid, how we tear the machine and go out from the mud independently. Now from the side of Uolba three KamAZ are approaching. The drivers have shown us crosses by their hands. That means we shall not pass. Now in one place we skid for about ten minutes. And now from the forward direction pushes a bus full of workers. I see the bus on zimnik for the first time. The bus has only one driving axle as well as our car has. We cannot bypass with a bus. Behind us a MAZ had appeared, those drivers, who drunk our brandy. At last we bypassed with the bus independently. The driver of the bus and all workers inside wave us that we must go back. We have the single hope, - a tow. But nobody is present. We are beating forward ourselves.
The way from Handiga up to Uolba is 137 kms long, and from Uolba up to Itik-Kuel is 33 kms long. But those 33 kms the road is comparatively solid, and how to pass these 137 kms of thawing marsh. On one place we have wound about 52 kms on wheels. But have passed no more than 18-20 kms. In low places the track enters into large pools of 100-200 meters length. How the ruts twist there it is not known. Ivan has wound all wires by an adhesive tape, not to wet the wires, and not to stop engine by water fountains in the pools. We fly into pulls with full tilt. It is not necessary to steer the car, the deep ruts do not let it go aside from the track. Sometimes we cling a ground by axles, the machine is quickly brake, but due to the large speed we have time to come off axles on wheels and again we try to increase the speed. The large pieces of mud fall on a roof of the machine.
We have got stuck. MAZ is going to take us on a tow. What will be in result? May be something good. I ask the God to not break. The return way is closed for us. MAZ drags us slowly. The long steel cable periodically is torn as cotton thread. We are forced to stop and to knot the ends together. How to pass these 137 kms?
22.30. Our MAZ has decided to throw us. Drivers have apologized, have told us that on tundra it is possible to drag, but up, on rise in rocks they will not pull us, they hurry up. They should have time to return in Deputatski settlement. All is clear; we are not offended. They drove forward. We lag behind. Frequently we hang on axles. They moved at ascent abruptly upwards and have passed of about 80 meters. Have not mastered and have slipped to us.
We together have made a shish kebab. Have decided to beat forward the next morning, when night frost will take the road by a crust of ice. Ivan dreams, if only MAZ has not gone earlier then we do and has not broken a road by its chains. We have agreed, who will wake up earlier that will wake up another. Alas, the drivers of MAZ have woken up earlier and have left. It is obvious they were afraid, that we can get stuck in mud and can block a road.
18.04. Magadan time is 12.00. We rode several kilometers off a place of parking. In one pool a log struck in a tank. The crack was formed, and petrol began to drip quickly. Now each fifteen - twenty minutes Ivan jumps out from cabin and rubs a crack by soap. In one place we were overtaken by jeep UAS. It has two driving axles, 4WD. The oncoming trucks are more frequent than ones, moving in the same direction as we. They stop in pockets and wait till we shall beat through. They speak, that from Uolba nobody are let out already. This is already the last column of machines, which have been let to zimnik from Uolba. Men speak, that ahead of us is impassable bog. At some machines bumpers are torn off. Drivers advise us to go back. But Ivan, aspires forward, even if all axles will be pull out. The brakes have already given up. Below in mud some wires hang. The machine is started badly. The engine compartment is full of mud, which quickly dries on the engine. It is impossible to scrub the dried dirt from the block of the engine. We have bought several canisters of petrol in oncoming drivers. Last machines from Uolba pass by us. Ivan still hopes, that there will be machines to Uolba, but in vain.
We stuck in the deep mud. The oncoming land-rover has pulled us out. Drivers have told us, that behind them there were only two three-axles Urals, fire-engines. Nobody will be from Uolba any more. Men advised us to return. Ivan has decided to wait till morning. By morning a road should be slightly frozen. And on frozen crust we shall try to slip forward. Ivan and Yura have got out through a mud in a wood. They have cooked a soup, made a tea. I could not pass there through a deep slush in my boots. Two deep ruts full of water are under us, and several ruts are on the right side, and several ruts at the left sides of the car. That is named a track.
Ivan speaks, if we shall not pass this place, then in summer our machine will be absorbed in a bog. I am in a hysterics. He speaks, that we shall throw the car and fish production and then we shall go to the nearest Yakut settlement. There we will order a plane or helicopter and leave this wild region. In the morning we could not pass far and stuck in mud till ears. Ivan was tearing the car, but in a result, we were turned with face directed on Magadan. He had stopped the engine. Dead silence was several hours. Then we have heard a sound of the truck, approaching from Uolba. Ivan has prepared a towrope. We were bypassed by three-axles land-rover Ural. He pulled us out of the mud trap. But what is it? From a trap he already has pulled out us, but does not stop. He drags us further and further, back in the Magadan direction. So he dragged us about five hundred meters. Ivan signals, brakes but the huge cross-country vehicle does not perceive our movements. At last he has stopped in a deep pit. Was buried in a mud itself. A body of truck has laid on a roadside mud. Ural stands in a deep pool having strongly bent. We did not stuck in, even tried to pull him back but in vain. We have unhooked a towrope, and moved back about 200 meters and then we turned in the Moscow direction. Meanwhile we saw two last Urals, fire-engines, approaching from the side of Uolba. They have moved down from a road and have bypassed us by a wood. One of them approached to our rescuer and began to pull him out. Alas, it was impossible. The second Ural has bypassed them and in pair they have pulled out got stuck Ural. So they moved further in bundle. We have remained.
It is all! There is no exit!
We have stayed there till evening and at last we have heard a sound of the machine, which was coming nearer and nearer from Magadan side. They have stopped beside us. It is a land-rover Ural with a trailer. In a cabin there were man with his wife, Sasha and Tanja. They harried home, in Jakutsk. They were in emotional mood: what if Lena river ahead would be opened from ice. Sasha swore on Yakuts, who have advised him to go by this way. He speaks, that just behind there is an exit on a parallel illegal winter road going on the river. We agreed on towage for 500.000 old rubles. So we were dragged back on a tow. From one o'clock till seven in the mornings we slept.
19.04. We went onto the river in bundle. From 7.30 till 11.00 we drived on the river up to settlement Itik-Kuel. The wheels of our machine frequently do not touch the bottoms of ruts. Axles of our car slide and grind about the ice. In Itik-Kuel we have said goodbye to Sasha and Tanja, have exchanged addresses. They have left. We have engaged in repair. Yura and me have washed the machine, and in a cabin. I have washed up our footwear and all dirty clothes. We have refueled GAZel. Have bought tasty warm bread directly in a village bakery and started further. Oops, forgot, - Sasha has refused from money; he has taken by a fish. We gave them a full box of fish and eight pieces more. At 20.00 we have covered 1900 kms from Magadan. After first two days there were 1680 kms. Today at 14.00 there was exactly four days of a way. And during these two last days we have passed only two hundred kilometers. Now we go on Churapcha, it is 80 kms from this place. A road is bulk, normal, but very dusty. Again the air filter has flied. Now bolts are turned off, now the carburetor shoots, now pump squeaks. We are so unhappy in this Jakutia. Here there are a lot of breakages.
20.04. It is 21.35 Magadan time. For the fifth day we have passed 450 kms. We are constantly broken. All the day we go with frequent stops. From vibration the air filter is constantly untwisted. It already has got Ivan. By evening Ivan has torn it out and has thrown if far in a forest. The oil began to drip. While there was a repair, Yura and me cooked a borshch in a wood. It was pleasantly to do. This night we did not rode, but slept. Already we can be calmed down. The heaviest impassable section of the road is passed. It is possible to relax, to have a calm sleep, and not to hurry up.
21.04. For the sixth day we have passed 461 kms. Before Jakutsk we shall not cross the Lena river, but go downwards through Nerungri, Skovorodino, Chernishevsk. The upper winter road, through Mirni is already ruined. On the bottom road there is a piece of a way, which it is necessary to go by rail. Today we go by a bad bumpy road. Continuous mound, large stones are everywhere. Again we have pierced a back wheel. Vulcanize station is necessary. It is already the second torn wheel. If we shall punch third, it will be necessary to make rearrangement of wheels, and crowbar was lost on zimnik. It has sunk in a mud. The shock absorber was torn off again. We have already fastened it by a cord.
It is 19.00 Magadan time. Again we stay, for two and a half hours, because of knocks in the engine. Ivan has opened a cover of valves and is engaged in an adjustment of backlashes.
22.04. Yesterday on long rise the engine was overheated. It knocks more loudly. It was necessary to reach of a settlement, where it will be possible to be engaged in repair, and to have a sleep. On ascends we rise very slowly, and then go down on inertia. And so far there is no any settlement. The next rise is ahead. "It is the last, engine will die soon", - has told Ivan. The knock sound has amplified considerably. At last we have climbed up the mountain. We have switched off the engine and rolled downwards on inertia. Fortunately, below behind the turn we saw a settlement. We rolled into a settlement, have turned on parking place and have stopped near the cafe. We have had a supper, consulted with drivers. One driver has offered to tow us forward to a Chulman settlement. Chulman is an Airport of Nerungri town. So we have done. Several hours moved on a tow. As far as our tow shackles were torn, we twined the forward axle by a towrope. The distance is small, - it is very dangerous. The electric motor of the stove does not work. We saved the energy of accumulators for emergency illumination. The windscreen is covered by vapor and froze. Ivan "has stuck" to windscreen and steers the car with the help of light spots of gabarit lights of the forward machine. I try to scratch the glass, but unsuccessfully. The driver in the forward machine does not even guess, that our visibility is almost zero, - he holds the speed about 70 km/h.
23.04. Yesterday night, having received the sanction of the chief, Yuri Ivanovich, we have driven on the territory of airport garage. Today we have washed the machine by hot water and have stood it in the box over an observation hole. Ivan has taken off a petrol tank, Yura and me have washed it by hot water, and after a filling of a tank by the exhaust fumes, the welder has repaired it. It was settled to vulcanize the inner tubes for two wheels. All the day Ivan took off all details from the machine. He upped the engine with the help of lifting jack, disconnected the bottom cover. The engine has been taken off by a crowd of men and been carried away to motorists. We slept the night at home of Volodja and Alla. We have a bath, and I washed clothes. Then we had a rest. To say the truth I slept inconveniently. A camp bed was strongly bent downwards and without a pillow. Yura is very jealous, and immediately has occupied a place on a sofa for two. Earlier, in the day of our marriage, he arranged a hysterics to Ivan and me. Speaks: "live so, without a marriage". Yura and me get on very bad now. I lost those good feelings to him, that were earlier. I hope, that all bad will pass and become better. Earlier he also forbade Olga, first Ivan's wife, to marriage with Turuchanov. Behaves egoistically. Searches for personal benefits. Ivan does not swear at him.
26.04. In Chulman we have made grandiose repair. We have stayed there for four day. Have removed the following breakages: in the engine have replaced crankshaft, all its bearings, one connecting rod, grinded the engine head, have replaced a complete set of linings, oil and petrol filters. All these things were bought in Nerungri. Volodja has adjusted inner tubes from UAZ car into our one. Their size is 15, and our wheels have the size 16. We have repaired fastenings of the shock absorbers. It was necessary to lift a car's body over a frame with the help of a lifting jack. We have remade the fastenings of a muffler tube in one place, and in the welder have repaired a shackle of its fastening in another place. We have washed through the radiator. Pull out a torn pin from the engine. Have cut a new groove of greater diameter, and have put a new pin there. Misha (Ivan's countryman from Nikopol) has carried somewhere the engine head and has established there a new piston under a plug. Welder have repaired and enlarged the broken tow shackles. Volodja have adjusted the air filter from a heavy motorcycle. We have charged batteries and have added the liquid there.
We moved further at 19.00 of Magadan time. Have arrived in Scovorodino at 5 in the morning. Somewhere on a road from Chulman to Skovorodino a branch pipe from a radiator has been pulled out. Fortunately we have noticed it quickly, and the engine had not time to overheat. We have added the water in the system of cooling, and the pump began to squeak.
From Skovorodino to Chernishevsk there is a railway ferry. Parallel zimnik road is already thawed. For railway ferry it is necessary to have the information from transport militia and from fire inspector. One paper costs 10.000 old rubles, another - 30.000. On parking, where railway platform are formed, it is necessary to find the partners on a platform. One platform costs 6.000.000 rubles. It rooms three small cars or one average lorry with one small car. If you want go yourself for 6.000.000 rubles, and want - seek for the partners. The first day we have not found the partners and have remained there till the next day. In evening many different machines have come. Drivers rode the Japanese cars from Khabarovsk and from Vladivostok on West of the country for sale. In evening we have agreed with whom to be loaded on the platforms, and in 8 o'clock in the morning we have already finished the loading.
Yesterday, 27.04, there was Easter. All the day we have stood on a platform. Ivan tighten the fastenings of the muffler, generator etc. A belt of the pump is already thin, plugs is constantly covered by snuff. The engine works with faults on small rotating velocity. It is desirable to change water on antifreeze, plugs, high-voltage wires, cover of the allocator, belt of 875 mm, 2 safety fuses, and bulbs. To find a cover on the bearing of a wheel, forward right hub of Á wheel.
There is no snow here already. In the afternoon the sun warms, and at night it is cool yet. The fellow travelers have divided by companies and celebrate the Easter. Today, 28.04 we have left Skovorodino.
28.04. From Skovorodino we have passed about three hundred kilometers. We stay at station Mogocha for a long time. Whether we let a passenger train pass, whether they will sort out our platforms. Now up to Moscow is 6876 kms by railway, and by a highway it will be a little larger.
30.04. It is 15236 kms on speedometer. (From Magadan we "winded on wheels" 4487 kms.)
Yesterday we have passed from Chernishevsk to Ulan-Ude and covered 1055 kms. Ivan in passion arranges races with other drivers. Huge dust clouds are behind us. The average speed was 80 km/h. But today probably we shall not pass so much. The posts are more frequent here. A lot of time is lost on checks and consequently average speed of movement strongly falls.
02.05.1997. It is 17207 kms on speedometer. For two last days we have passed 2 thousand kms. The starter has left out of operation completely. Ivan disassembled it. It is necessary to change its bendex. We were started engine rolling from hills or with "a push".š Have bought bendex. From Ulan-Ude we moved to Morshansk. Passed the cities: Irkutsk, Tulun, Taishet, and Kansk.
The record below is made in July 2000Ç.
Further diary was not written. The roads became better, petrol and oil -- better, repairs less often. More frequent penalties from cops. The whole road from Magadan to Moscow has also occupied 23 days. From Moscow we have moved on Ukraine, in Nikopol, Ivan's relatives home. In some days we moved in Crimea, in Feodosiya, Irina's relatives home. Further "far striking" noncommercial trips we made only between Moscow and Ukraine, which occupies only one day on a good road. The main unpleasant nonsense on this site is customs house. This "Berlin Wall" makes Russia and Ukraine more and more destitute. The numerous crossing of this "wall" has proved, that the income of customs house goes not in treasury of the states, but as bribe in pockets of the customs officers. Fifty millions of Ukrainians on Ukraine and ten millions of Ukrainians outside Ukraine become further and further from each other. The people are afraid to go through customs house. The people do not want to be plundered by customs officers.
In 1999 we had such circumstances, that the declaration on the machine has become delayed. And the machines with the delayed declaration are subjected to confiscation at customs house. The law is those. The machine is registered in Moscow, and stuck in Nikopol. But to pull out it from there is more difficult, than from Magadan. A thank to you, sirs nationalists, separatists, and other bitches for "the Berlin Wall" inside of my uniform country. USA recognized our new independent countries. I did not recognize them. The border between Ukraine and Russia divides my heart.
I can not move on my motherland roads on my car. It is necessary to sell the car.
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The record is below was made in September 2000.
It was impossible to sell the car in Ukraine, because of bureaucratic delays. Even for $1000. Persons wishing to buy was much, but alas, all stopped because of documents. I am registered in the Far East, Russia. The machine is registered in Moscow, Russia. I operate the machine under the general power of attorney. The declaration is delayed. The checkup is delayed. That means that it is necessary to risk and rode the car to Moscow.
In July the repair of the car was carried out. I have changed rings, pistons, some bearings, ets.
The 8-th of August we with the daughter have started from Nikopol in a direction on Donbass. Have gone away in the late evening in order "to hide" the Russian numbers, blinding Ukrainian cops. Alas, the focus has managed only partially. First penalty, or to be exact, a bribe, we have given in Zaporozhye city, -- 40 grivnjas. But it is better, than penalty-site, where daily parking is $ 5. If you will not solve all bureaucratic questions in different cities of these two independent funny countries, the sum will grow. So the penalty-site is a coffin for such machine, as mine. Other 500 kms of the way to Donbass was covered quite successfully and without stops at night on Ukrainian village roads.
Before border Ukraine - Russia we have had a rest at our relatives. I has left daughter Dasha there, and has taken the son Yura. In the morning August 10 we moved in a direction on customs house...
Have passed of about kilometers 40 and before 10 kilometers to a customs house, we, fortunately, were stopped by cops. First of all, they have decided to fine us for the absence of the coupon of technical checkup. But while we haggled over the price, whether forty, whether fifty grivnjas, they found out, that the declaration on entrance in Ukraine is already delayed.
-Ooo... Your car will be taken away at customs house.
-And what if I give all my grivnjas to you, and you will lead me around of customs house?
-Hmm:šAnd how many grivnjas have you?
- Four hundred. (It is hardly less than one hundred dollars).
- It is necessary to think.
Three "friends" have sat in the machine with cop's lights. They have thought a couple of minutes and...
-OK. Let we at first completely examine your GAZel for the weapon, drugs etc.
-Sure, look.
In a couple of minutes we in a cop's escort were moving on soil roads lengthways woodland belts, lengthways coil mines to the border. In one place we were stopped by Ukrainian frontier-guards. They were hidden in a high grass near a road, in a car. Cops have discussed with them. It seems frontier-guards also like bribes. We have passed some more kilometers. Have stopped.
- Ahead is already Russian village.
- Thanks. Hold.
- How many here?
- Four hundred.
He has put the money in a pocket, not considering.
- And what is the name of this place.
- It is not important. Go faster.
In a half an hour we went on the road Rostov - Moscow. Hurrah!!!! In one an hour we were stopped on a post, and have been fined because of Yura did not fasten the safety belt. 20 new rubles. It is approximately 4 Ukrainian grivnjas. Further up to Moscow, all 1000 kms we rode without penalties.
Pulling out of the machine from Ukraine to Russia has turned to be 444 grivnjas: 40 - penalty in Zaporozhye, 400 - support around the customs house, 4 - seat belts on a road Rostov - Moscow.
Our car has risen in price! In the market in Moscow such car costs $2500-3000. I do not want to move to Ukraine on a car, once more. It would be better if I shall go there, to my Motherland, by a train. But here one must also be attentive and ready for any surprises from the mafia customs officers. For example, You carry with yourselves US $3000. (Foreigner, don't be astonished. Ukraine and Russia are countries of clownery, mafia and American spies. Our currency is not stabile and we support American economy using your currency.) So, You carry with yourselves US $3000. You fill in the declaration and in order not to attract to yourself the attention of bandits, of the customs officers and neighbors, you wrote 300 instead of 3000. Besides, whence can you know how many you can take with you in Ukraine? Who are you, citizen, resident, non resident. Different peoples can have different sum of money. Surpluses must be given in bank, that is, in hands of mafia customs officer. That is why you must write three hundred. Then you asked to undersign the declaration. You undersign.
- And now show!
Upss, and you have forgotten to break these 3000 on smaller bundles:
Such occurrence has taken place at the Airport of Moscow, several years ago, when Ira and me hurried urgently for Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Alas, because of that damned customs house, our air tickets were gone. And we have gone to Ukraine next day by train...
Our GAZel now is in Moscow. As earlier I rode without technical checkup. To pass checkup, it is necessary to pass medical commission. To pass medical commission one must be registered in Moscow. But I live in Moscow illegaly in my friend's flat. I am registered in the Far East and it's quite expensive for me to flight there now.
What can I do with that GAZel?
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