Last weekend, as we were waiting for our trolleybus near Luzhniki, I took a couple of pictures of one of those buses that commute between Moscow and the North Caucasus: I mentioned them in a 2007 post - and in this year's post-subway bombings post...





The two guys are pasting a sign announcing that this particular bus would be leaving for Makhachkala, Dagestan - some 1,000 miles from Moscow - on that very same day. The bus, parked at some distance from the huge and surreal makeshift bus station inside the Luzhniki compound, used to belong to Biuro Podróży Bartuś, a Polish travel agency located on ul. Niepodległości - Independence Street - in the town of Pszów. For some reason, I find this geographic aspect fascinating...