Posts Tagged "Moscow Region"
Nikolai: Retired Machinery Worker
RAMENSKOE, MOSCOW SUBURBS: I could see a group of school children from across a pond playing on the ice. One was skating in circles with a hockey stick. As I git closer, I realized the hockey player was an adult. As I got around to that end of the pond, I realized it was a pensioner. He said his name was Nikolai and had worked his whole life as a machine factory. Now in his mid 60s and retired, he got back into ice skating a few years ago to stay in shape. He said he had gone a few decades without skating, but quickly got back in the grove.
