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ODC - (Extra)ordinary. I'm lucky enough to get to travel to some extraordinary places with my job - like Azerbaijan, for example! These may be ordinary streets to those who live there but for me, it's a new adventure.
Flame Towers is a trio of skyscrapers in Baku, Azerbaijan, including the tallest in the country, with a height of 182 m (597 ft).
Baku at Night
Reaching down to the starless heavy sea
in the pitch-black night,
Baku is a sunny wheatfield.
High above on a hill,
grains of light hit my face by the handfulls,
and the music in the air flows like Bosphorus.
High above on a hill,
my heart goes out like a raft
into the endless absence,
beyond memory
down to the starless heavy sea
in the pitch dark.
Nazim Hikmet
(translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk)
Baku, the capital and commercial hub of Azerbaijan, is a low-lying city with coastline along the Caspian Sea.
What a stunning piece or architecture! more to come as i loved wondering around tis building for ages admiring every angel of it!
Sovetskie Zheleznye Dorogi (Soviet Railways) class L locomotive L-4118 emerged from the Ukrainian locomotive works at Luhansk in 1951. A total of 4,199 examples of this hugely powerful class were built between 1945 and 1955. By way of explanation these locomotives developed over 60,000 lbs off tractive effort whilst the UK flagship heavy freight locomotive the 9F produced 39,667 lbs.
I had heard about this locomotive before my trip, so on a steamy day of high temperatures I took the long walk along the promenade to the National Flag Square. As well as this locomotive being displayed at this site there is also the worlds oldest preserved oil tanker and the worlds oldest oil well.
An interesting fact about this class of locomotives is that there are over 300 examples of this class of locomotive still in existence. This makes it the most populous class 'preserved' locomotives in the world.