JUN 19, 19 .. IRKUTSK .. THE ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ РЫНОК SHOPPING MALL

We will get to an explanation of the name in the above title a little further down in this post.

In our last post, we posted photos of a very up-scale shopping mall here in Irkutsk, Russian Siberia..

http://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2019/06/jun-17-19-visit-to-shopping-mall-in.html 

In this post we will show another shopping mall.

The shopping mall in this post is one nitty-gritty, get-the-shopping-done, as-inexpensively-as-you-can, experience.

Here we go loop-de-loop ..

The first series of photos below shows the shopping center's North end.

Outside of the main building, you can see from the blue tents, there is also a very large open-air-shopping area. 

The next three photos below look at the South end of the shopping center.

Now for a little fun with the Russian language.

In the below photo, you can see the name of the shopping center.

ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ  РЫНОК

The first word ( ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ ) sounds-out as : TSENTRALNYY

The second word ( РЫНОК ) sounds out as : RYNOK

So, sounding out the Russian words, you find that you are at the:

TSENTRALNYY RYNOK shopping center.

Big help this is! Yes indeed! We are learning the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet but we don't have the vocabulary to back up the sounded-out words.

Taa-Daa, here is the meaning of  ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ  РЫНОК.

CENTRAL MARKET

Just for fun, I did a Trip Advisor post of the TSENTRALNYY RYNOK shopping center.

IF all you do is to click onto the below link, you will see that we are not kidding about the name!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g298527-d8634934-Reviews-Tsentralnyy_Rynok-Irkutsk_Irkutsk_Oblast_Siberian_District.html

Don't forget, on Trip Advisor I am kanbaatar from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Now inside of  ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ  РЫНОК we all walk.

And then..

As I was strolling around the ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ  РЫНОК..

I spied some stairs..

And?

Up the stairs (about six flights) I walked..

To get some 'overhead' photos of ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ  РЫНОК.

The below photo gives you an idea of what it looked like up there in the rafters.

In the below photo..

Кафе means Cafe in Russian. 

Осмровок means Osmrovok in Russian.

After this little workout, I needed to take-a-break at the Cafe Osmrovok.

IF you look closely at the upper left of the below photo, you can see the Cafe Osmorovok.

Well that-is-that for our little visit to  ЦЕНТРАΛЬНЫЙ  РЫНОК. 

In our next Post we will show you two moderate, middle-of-the-road shopping centers / shopping malls.

Smiling all the time .. Patti and Cap