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YAZ trucks were produced by the Yaroslavl Automobile Plant (YaAZ) in the Soviet Union. Specifically, the YAZ-200 and YAZ-210 series are notable examples, with the YAZ-200 being the first Russian truck with a diesel engine. The YAZ-210 was the first Soviet heavy three-axle diesel truck
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HBH Palanga is a place where to eat, celebrate, take time out of busy cities
There is a mini Zoo, Antique Soviet car collection, many souvenir shops, plenty of flowers..
Some numbers:
During summer season we will find You a place in one of 5 buildings for guests. There are 4 kitchens and 6 bars. What is more, there is a pub of draft drinks and souvenirs and cafe with candy shop;
We can welcome the following number of guests: in the main building (in eight halls) – 509, Arbour – 112; Boat House – 168; Barbeque Bar – 278; at all outdoor tables – 360; in balconies – 73;
We employ about 200 persons during summer, and about 100 employees during other seasons;
There are parking sites, containing approximately 400 cars;
There have been that You, our dear ones, ate 2 438 zeppelins, drank 2 tonnes of beer and 1 tonne of kvass per day. Enjoy ...
Happy Truck Thursday!
"Kvass is a traditional Slavic and Baltic fermented beverage commonly made from black or regular rye bread. The colour of the bread used contributes to the colour of the resulting drink. It may be flavoured with fruits such as strawberries and raisins, or with herbs such as mint."
(from Wikipedia)
The history of the ILGEZEEM brewery begins in 1863 when it was built by the Germans. Today, in 21st century, the brewery’s products are one of the most appreciated products in Latvia. 150 ago beer lovers highly recognized the brands produced by the brewery: Berliner White, Bavarian, Marzen, Imperial, Münchener Cabinet and others. The brewery produces malt extract since 19th century.
From 1940 to 1980 the brewery was considered as one of the best dark beer and lemonade manufacturers in Riga.
However the political and economical situation of 1991 caused dramatic change in the national economy of Latvia which resulted in cessation of production at the brewery.
In 1997 the brewery was acquired by SIA ILGEZEEM – a team of professionals truly committed to their work. Since then it has begun modernization of production.
We began the production of malt drinks, brewed and fermented by special technology, and continued with production of naturally fermented kvass. Nowadays our kvass and malt products are recognized as one of the favourite drinks in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania,
Flashback to my 2010 visit to Russia
On a hot day in Smolensk, the street vendors sell plastic cups of kvass - a fermented drink made from rye. Popular with the locals cooling off in the heat, and often flavoured with fruits like strawberries and raisins, or with herbs such as mint.
Smolensk, Russia.
В нашем парке поставили несколько бочек с квасом. Настоящих, из прошлого.
Обновлено:
Бочка оказалась модифицированной. Ее разрезали вдоль и вставили внутрь большие банки со сладкой газировкой. Полное разочарование!
In our park they put up some kvass barrels. Real ones, from the past.
Updated:
The barrel turned out to be modified. They cut it open lengthwise and put big cans of sweet soda inside. What a disappointment!
Il kvass o kvas (in in russo: Квас[?] dal verbo квасить "far fermentare") è una bevanda russa fermentata, poco alcolica (Il tasso alcolico del kvass arriva al massimo al 2.2%)
Tale bevanda è frutto della naturale fermentazione di un qualsiasi vegetale. Frutta e bacche sono state probabilmente i primi prodotti ad essere utilizzati. Uno degli ingredienti per il kvass è la linfa di betulla, presa all'inizio della primavera. Anche cereali possono essere utilizzati, come il grano, la segale, l'orzo, per il kvas da tavola, oppure pane nero o di segale con l'aggiunta di zucchero o frutta, solitamente mele.
Il kvass è una bevanda comune in Russia sin dai tempi antichi, ed è sia prodotta in casa, che commercialmente.
Alla bevanda possono essere aggiunti aromi di frutta o erbe, come fragola o menta.
С удовольствием постоял в очереди за квасом. Ощущения — как слетал в 1990 год, разве что теперь наливают в пластиковые бутылки, а не в эмалированные бидоны.
Blast from the past
I enjoyed standing in line for kvass. It felt like flying back to 1990, except now it's poured into plastic bottles instead of enamelled cans.
Popular Slavic beverage is known to everyone who had his childhood in Soviet times and the tradition to sell kvass on the streets right from the kegs hasn't died until recent days. At the end of the business day kegs are formed in this kind of a funny train that drives home slowly.
Raiymbek dangyly, Almaty, KZ
Another place where you can perfectly enjoy the evening sun with a drink.
Here it is kvas, traditionally made from a mash of rye bread or rye flour and malt. The last time I drank kvas before was in the 1970s in Moscow, where it was served on the streets from small tanks.
The Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra is the largest monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church with a long history. Located in the center of the city of Sergiev Posad, Moscow region, on the river Konchure. Has the status of a stauropegic.
Variations on a theme «...with a film across Russia»
Camera: Kodak S1100 XL
Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400 + dev.D-76
Photo taken: 16/09/2017
Scanner: Pakon F235+
Thanks to @Karlen. and @severinus for helping to pinpoint the location! (see comments)
The woman is selling kvass, a man in a military uniform is entering a hunting supply store.
Photo by my grandfather David C. Cook. Scanned from an unlabeled Kodachrome slide, datestamped June 1969. In a slide cartridge labeled "Russia".
Follow this link for more photos of Moscow by my grandfather. And here photos by my grandfather from other cities around the world.
“Welcome, dear guests,” said the Mole who was sitting on the right and was probably the Right Mole.
“Sit down,” said the Left Mole.
Iria and her friends sat down on the stools that stood on their side of the table.
The brothers looked at Iria carefully, and Alice did not like their looks at all. They were predatory, wolfish. In front of the twins there were large jugs from which they poured some brown liquid into their mugs. And it was unlikely that it was kvass.
© Kir Bulychev, 1988 - The City Without Memory - Chapter 11 The Moles got angry
I bet this is a book you never heard of, because it has never been translated into English (what a pity)! :) Let me introduce you to my favorite book from the Alice (Alisa) Seleznyova series by Russian writer Kir Bulychev, "The City Without Memory", which is a direct sequel to "The End of Atlantis" (but much more interesting!), with some recurring characters from "Gai-do".
You probably know who Alice is, if you ever heard of "Alice and the Mystery of the Third Planet" - the English dubbing of Soviet animated feature film "The Secret of the Third Planet" (1981), for which she was voiced by Kirsten Dunst. Or maybe you heard of "Guest from the Future" (1985) Soviet TV miniseries, it was really popular in USSR.
In the sci-fi book series, Alice is a girl from the distant utopian future (2080s), in which there are no more states (it's implied that the Soviet Union has gone on to encompass the globe), no more illnesses (except the flu), no more shortage of anything, and no private property. Science has improved humans, making them smarter, stronger and healthier, and there are robots, flying cars, faster than light spaceships, time travel, language-learning devices (makes people fluent in 1 hour!) and more. Alice is a daughter of a space zoologist, and she wants to be one herself, so she travels a lot and had many adventures on Earth and other planets (and in other times), including fighting space pirates, saving planets from various threats, meeting fairy-tale characters and more. She had various age in different books (the series is quite messy in terms of chronology), with the oldest age being thirteen, like in this book.
I will explain what the book is about in the text below, but it's so interesting and I'm so obsessed with the story of those characters, that it's quite a longread (sorry!). So I'll tell about the background of the picture first. :)
I had a series of six books about Alice, each one included a 2-3 full-length novels or a bunch of short stories, written between 1965 and 1989. I guess it was a complete edition of all Alice books which were written at the time (the books were bought by my grandparents for my father), but the series was continued, and I have never read any of 90s-00s books about Alice. The books I had were illustrated by Yevgeniy Migunov, and this picture is actually my attempt to build a scene depicted by him (for some reason he forgot to remove space helmets, which contradicts the text), but with a different viewpoint, because I'm really proud of my versions of Alice, Iria and Pashka, so I couldn't make my tribute to famous Alice Seleznyova with only her back visible. :)
But why this scene? Because it is an only illustration which allows me to make a double tribute - to Alice, my childhood hero, and to the Mole brothers. Yeah, they're bad guys - this is actually a scene when they're going to tell Iria they suddenly decided to marry her because she's the most beautiful woman (and they not ask, they demand - like father, like sons) and they're going to throw the dice to decide which brother will marry her. Even little me knew it was very wrong, and I hated them for it (despite the fact their wish wasn't granted), but hear me out - the wolf helmets! Little me was looking to this one and few other illustrations with Moles for hours, and I thought that this is a coolest costume EVER! :D Like, seriously, how badass it would be to wear a wolf head on a head! (hmm, maybe that's why I have not just one, but two partial realistic fursuits now xD)
So I waited for ages for this, and when Lego finally released a modern beautiful version of the Wolfpack bandit - the Beastmaster (they released a thief in 10332 before, but he's hard to find), I knew at last I'll be able to show their cool outfits and tell the story of those legendary warriors! :) Well, they really had a well-written backstory, like every villain should. By the way, they became good six years later in the book's epilogue, they work as forest rangers now.
There should be more candles - they had a reason in the book to have candles literally everywhere in the castle - especially on the wall (which shouldn't be visible that much according to my idea, but then I realised I couldn't just show Alice's back, we need to see her face - or this picture is no better than any other with Moles and without her), but I ran out of LED dot lights for candles. Actually there is one candle on the table unseen because of the main characters and two more candles out of the frame, but at the point when I saw it, I wasn't able to disassemble a wall to move those candles elsewhere, because it would move the LEDs of other candles, and I had troubles attaching them. The red and white colors of Alice outfit and her hair are based on her canon look from the animation film I mentioned in the beginning. And if you look closer, you'll notice that Moles wear their boots in a canon way as well. XD Now to the book!
"The City Without Memory" starts with a first ever expedition from Earth to planet Krina, the homeworld of an advanced civilization, who secretly sent a group of scientists to Earth 300 years ago (from Alice's time, so late XVIII century) to watch and study how our civilization develops, which was an easy task, because Krinians live a few centuries, despite otherwise looking human. But 250 years ago the group suddenly lost all contact with their planet, and they had to pose as Atlanteans since, until they were rescued by Alice and her friend Pashka (Pavel) Geraskin in the previous book "The End of Atlantis". The expedition was meant to return the stranded scientists back home and to solve a mystery why no one on Earth, now also an advanced space-travelling civilization, as well on other developed planets, has ever heard of Krina, and why it doesn't respond on multiple current attempts to contact it. But when their ship began to descend over the planet, it disappeared...
Someone has to do something, but it would took weeks or even months until the space equivalent of UN approves the rescue expedition (sounds familiar, doesn't it?). Alice can't wait in uncertainty, wondering what happened to her Krinian friends. So with the help of Iria Gai, her sentient genius spaceship Gai-do (both debuted in the book "Gai-do") and Pashka she started her own rescue mission. Iria is a badass daughter of a genius inventor from planet Vester, who wanted a son, so he raised her to be an expert in spaceships, other machinery, martial arts, shooting, etc, and who built Gai-do for and with her. Now Iria is happily married to Tadeusz Sokol, who she once saved, lives in Poland and raises their daughter Wanda, but Tadeusz was sent as a crew member to Krina on the ship that disappeared, so she's eager to rescue him (again).
Long story short, when Alice and friends land on Krina (losing Gai-do in the process - he had to redirect all energy to keep a force field, which allowed them to land safely, but he burnt all fuel for it, and had to be grounded until someone would bring him a fuel from the lost ship), they discover a dystopian medieval society built on a ruins of once a great civilization, with no one of locals having any idea that they once traveled to the stars. They don't even remember the meaning of many words and falsely attribute them to wrong things! Alice and team found the lost ship of the first expedition, crash-landed in the wood, with the door teared from the inside, and the signs that the crew left it taking nothing with them, not even their suits for setting foot on the unknown planet or beloved talisman. Then the team had to watch the death of their former "Atlantean" friend from that ship, who didn't recognize any of them and seemed to be mad (actually he lost all his memory). This mean the things got serious - this is the first time in overall light-hearted Alice series when an important character from the other book got killed for real. Usually there were just Disney deaths for some villains...
Later Alice and friends learned that all the knowledge and education are forbidden and punishable by memory loss (on this planet there are pits with a fog, which made ones who fell into them to forget everything they know), because only a special caste called the wisemen can know the meaning of words. But there are a group of rebels called the rememberers ("pomnik(s)" in the original), who live in the Shelter and kidnap children. The people think they do it to eat them, but actually they teach them (that's how they grow new rememberers). There are some noble feudals called the bows ("poklon(s)" in the original - meaning a deep bow) and the priests of oblivion called the tasters ("vkushetz(s)" in the original - a clever wordplay, because a pagan priest is pronounced "zhretz" in Russian, which sounds close to a rude, but not obscene equialent of the verb "to eat" - "zhrat", and there is also a posh and obsolete equialent of "to eat" and "to taste" - "vkushat"). The world described in the book is very interesting, and always fascinated me in the childhood.
But back to Alice and friends! On their way through the forest they got kidnapped by the atani pygmies, who later mistook Iria for their goddess the White Mistress (who is actually a statue of a book reader) come alive. Iria plays along with the role, demanding pygmies to untie her and friends, and bring their hi-tech belts and other belongings back, but they don't understand the language, so they call their interpreter Very-Mery. Just a few minutes later it turned out that Very-Mery is actually a traitor to his own kind, who gave a tip to his master, a forest baron Left Mole for him and his men to raid the pygmy village and drive them into slavery (which he did many times with other villages). Left Mole, the bow, mistakes Iria for the bow, so she, Alice and Pashka were escorted to the Moles family castle, which is actually an old observatory. There they had to wait in the tower, where they meet Mole's younger sister, sixteen year old Squirrel, who tells them about her family.
Her father was Old Mole, the terror of the forests, a bandit and a murderer like few others, and a domestic tyrant. When he was young, he found an abandoned observatory on the hill in the forest while pursuing a deer, so his band moved to it. Later they build a wall around it, and he claimed it his castle, which meant that he is no more the forest robber, but the bow. He was called Mole because there was a special tradition of naming children - the parents have to pay the wisemen to choose a beautiful name for the kid, and the wiseman who named him sold to his grandfather a picture of this animal along with the name. So he and his men wore the heads of this mighty forest predator as their helmets. Actually, of course, it was a wolf, but the wisemen thought that wolf is called mole, and only the wisemen has the right to know the meaning of the words, so no one knew they were wrong.
Once Mole visited the City and saw Centipede, a beautiful daughter of the taster of the church of the Saint Centipede. He swore she will become his wife. He counted on the help of a young pygmy Very-Mery, who was just a kid when Mole raided his village and caught his tribe to be slaves, but the smart kid escaped the dungeon, run to Mole and told him where their tribe's treasure cache is. Now a spy for Mole, Very-Mery befriended the slaves of the taster and got wind that Centipede is going to visit her aunt Hackle-Woodlice, a sorceress and prophet, on the River Island, and that she left on a small ship with a small guard, because it's harvest time, during which peace is established. But bandit Mole didn't care about traditions, so he called his band and on the night they killed the guards and kidnapped Centipede. Only one guard survived and ran to the city to tell Lord Radiculitis (the ruler of this land, for whom the bows are vassals) what happened, Lord's anger and the anger of the tasters was terrible. He sent a whole army which besieged the Mole's castle for three days. Mole lost one eye, he ran out of arrows, his men who survived were injured and barely could stay on their feet. But besiegers had no idea of any of that, and when the great taster died during the final assault, his army retreated. Poor bride Centipede waited for somebody to rescue her, but no one came.
A year after that the twins were born, and Centipede sent a messenger with great gifts to the wisemen, but they were too afraid of the anger of the Lord Radiculitis and the tasters, so they refused to gave any names, and she had to name kids after their father - Left Mole and Right Mole. At least a sorcerer Hackle-Woodlice was happy with the gifts received, so she made a prophecy, that the twins will never quarrel or separate if they wear only one boot each: Left Mole - the right boot, Right - the left. And they did it, even during the winter, though at first few years they caught colds often, but later they got used to it. Their boots are the only way to identify them, because they look exactly the same.
The twins grew cruel, their father would bring them forest birds and animals and forced his sons to torment them. When he left the room, their mother rescued those poor creatures to nurture them and release back into the wild, and explained to her sons that animals should be loved. Because of that the twins obeyed either their father or their mother, depending on what was necessary at the moment. They were afraid of their father, because in anger he could beat them cruelly, but they loved their mother in their own way, because she fed them and looked after them.
Once Centipede and the twins were on a walk around the castle's hill, when they saw a wounded female unicorn with two little twin foals. It was a miracle - the unicorns lived deep in the impassable forests, they rarely were seen by humans, and no one could tame them because they died in captivity. A dying unicorn looked like she was trying to talk, like if she was asking Centipede to take care of her foals, and Centipede promised so. The servants who saw the scene from the wall, sent for Old Mole, who decided to made a stuffed unicorn out of the deceased body, and take foals to the city to sold them for a large amount of money. But even though Centipede was afraid of her wild husband, she was brave enough to tell him it's better to raise the foals for the twins (Mole and his men rode on deers), and the boys supported her, so he gave up his idea. The foals grew like brothers to the boys, and they could even understand what unicorns are saying, but each brother could understand only their own unicorn. When Lord Radiculitis heard of the real unicorns living happily in the Moles castle, he offered any amount of money for them, but the proud Old Mole refused. Then Lord called for the second campaign to conquer the castle, but the war for the straits has started, so he no longer had time to deal with a stubborn vassal.
At some point after the fateful meeting with the unicorns, the daughter of Old Mole was born, but nobody cared for her (except for her mother), and she didn't even get a beautiful name (by local standards) - she was named Squirrel. She was beaten with the belt by her father, who thought that she was odd because her mother met the Sullen Crone in the forest in a year when she was born, which is a bad sign (one who met her would never be happy), so Squirell ran away from him into the forest and disappeared there for several days. She was also abused by her brothers, so she grow wild, closed, with no social skills and clearly traumatized (as I realised while re-reading book as an adult, but that's the story for another time).
The twins grew up and became young bandits, brave and cruel, feared by everyone. Many times they were ambushed by the rememberers, faced the hordes of pygmies wanting to kill them, fought the squads sent by neighboring bows, but there were no better fighters in the world than the Mole brothers, and there were no animal faster and smarter than their unicorns. Later Old Mole get lost when pursuing some animal, alone, without guards, and fell into the pit where the spirit lives, who takes the memory away. When he was found by his sons, he recognised no one, and he was so emaciated, so afraid of everyone, and saw nightmares so horrible that he hanged himself in the castle's tower. As the time went on, everybody forget that Old Mole was just a forest bandit, so his kids were considered real bows (but still looked down by more noble families, who could remark that the twins were bows in a first generation), and along with other barons and bows they were invited to join the army of Lord Radiculitis in his great campaign to conquer the Shelter of the rememberers. Very-Mery was the one carrying this news when he learned where the pygmies are going to host their annual festival, so he told his masters about it, and this was how Left Mole met Alice and friends in the forest.
That's enough, I think. :) Now you know who those characters are, but not what happened later in the scene and in the book. There were quite a lot of adventures in a medieval world - that's why I liked the book so much. I hope you enjoyed my picture and story!
Marchande de kvass à Nijni-Novgorod
La Russie s'est considérablement embellie et modernisée depuis, notamment sous la présidence de Vladimir Poutine.
Russia has tremendously improved since, particularly under Vladimir Putin's leadership.
Okróshka (Russian: окро́шка [ɐˈkroʂkə]) is a cold soup of Russian origin, which probably originated in the Volga region.
The classic soup is a mix of mostly raw vegetables (like cucumbers, radishes and spring onions), boiled potatoes, eggs, cooked meat such as beef, veal, sausages or ham and kvass, which is a low-alcoholic (1.5% or less) beverage made from fermented black or rye bread. Okroshka is usually garnished with sour cream (smetana). Later versions that first appeared in Soviet times use light or diluted kefir, whey, ayran, or carbonated water instead of kvass.
The ingredients are diced and then mixed with kvass just before eating; the ratio of chopped food to kvass is similar to that of cereal to milk. This allows the vegetables to retain their texture. For that same reason, even though the ingredients are similar to those in a Russian salad, the taste of okroshka is quite different from that of the salad.
Okroshka is mostly served in summer because the soup combines the refreshing taste of kvass and the lightness of a salad. Salt and sugar can be added according to taste. In the recipes with carbonated water, there is one more addition to the ingredients of okroshka: freshly squeezed lemon juice; this is to replace the flavor in the absence of kvass.
Okroshka is always served cold. Sometimes ice cubes are added to served portions to keep the soup cold in hot weather.
The shot was taken as me and my friends were going in a car through a highway back into the city after weekends. It depicts a supposedly tired crying adult women selling her homemade pickled vegetables, greens, eggs and kvass. The road was active, hence the dust was all around in the air. Peak air temperature that day was around 32C.
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
SLR Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Jupiter-36B 250mm f3.5
Film: Kodak Pro Image 100
Filter: УФ-1x
Film was processed and scanned by "Mark" Studio Lab. in Chernivtsi. I am happy with the results.
To see the pictures taken with this camera click here.
Thank you for your comments and Fav's.
Want to try it? This is called kvass. In this bottle, it is without alcohol. But. Kvass is a product of fermentation. In real kvass there is a little bit of alcohol. This kvass is without alcohol.
Traditional russian cold summer soup "okroshka" in big mug
В каждой кулинарной традиции есть какие-нибудь странности. Ну, например, блюда не совсем понятные представителю другой культуры... Едят же испанцы свой холодный суп "гаспаччо" - а по мне так просто перетертые помидоры :) Или вот японцы - рыбой сырой не брезгуют. У итальянцев так вообще все сплошь из теста и сыра - ни в какие диетические каноны не вписывается. А "татарский бифштекс"? На мой взгляд весьма сомнительное для употребления блюдо... То ли дело окрошечка! Ароматная, холодная с кислинкой. В жару самое то! И освежит и голод утолит. Мало ли что кому-то странно как можно смешать в кисломолочной основе совершенно несовместимые продукты. А то еще и кваса нальют? Но мы то знаем! Знаем - что это вкусно! Окрошку в массы! ОК крошка - на столе окрошка!!! :)
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Standart USSR Barrel of beer/kvass/milk and over liquid food products.
Сapacity 0.9 TAPZ-755A /775A chassis 1972г
This model is suitable for using in the 3D renderings of architectural visualizations, traffic simulation, games etc. where it doesn't need to use heavy high-polygonal models.
4096 Texture map (PSD)
Original word size.
Neatly arranged texture map allows you to put your own livery without complicated graphics software
Fair-Festival «Our Product», which took place from 9 to 19 June in Moscow, where they were presented kvass, bread and a variety of snacks, prepared according to old recipes. Many of the dishes and drinks, you can try.
Variations on a theme «...with a film across Moscow»
Film: Polaroid High Definition 100 (exp.03.2000)
Camera: Konica C35 EFP (shot using the built-in flash)
Photo taken: 19/06/2016
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500
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Москва. Начало лета. Konica C35 EFP и Polaroid High Definition 100
Kvass is a fermented, cereal-based, low-alcoholic beverage of cloudy appearance and sweet-sour taste.
Kvass originates from northeastern Europe, where grain production was considered insufficient for beer to become a daily drink. The first written mention of kvass is found in Primary Chronicle, describing the celebration of Vladimir the Great's baptism in 988.
In the traditional method, kvass is made from a mash obtained from rye bread or rye flour and malt soaked in hot water, fermented for about 12 hours with the help of sugar and bread yeast or baker's yeast at room temperature. In industrial methods, kvass is produced from wort concentrate combined with various grain mixtures. It is a popular drink in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Kvass (or beverages similar to it) are also popular in some parts of China, Finland, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Kvass is a fermented, cereal-based, low-alcoholic beverage of cloudy appearance and sweet-sour taste.
Kvass originates from northeastern Europe, where grain production was considered insufficient for beer to become a daily drink. The first written mention of kvass is found in Primary Chronicle, describing the celebration of Vladimir the Great's baptism in 988.
In the traditional method, kvass is made from a mash obtained from rye bread or rye flour and malt soaked in hot water, fermented for about 12 hours with the help of sugar and bread yeast or baker's yeast at room temperature. In industrial methods, kvass is produced from wort concentrate combined with various grain mixtures. It is a popular drink in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Kvass (or beverages similar to it) are also popular in some parts of China, Finland, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Kvass is an eastern European drink, made by fermentation of bread.
It is 5000 years old and still has a large market.
It is mentioned in stories by Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy.
It has a low content of alcohol, but considered suitable for children.
Lechaim.
(Thank god for wikipedia)