Test: Guess Samara's landmarks from online reviews

After living in this city for some time, you«ll learn about it the same thing you already know about other Russian cities: the city budget is in a very pitiful state, and in the duma (the city council), »his excellency« pulls all the strings, very hard when it comes to his benefit, and if it comes to the city»s benefit, then... and then he pulls no less hard, but also in his own favor. <...>

Then, of course, you«ll find out that the city lacks educational institutions, hospitals, and everything else that was lacking in all those cities you had the pleasure or misfortune to visit before Samara. The only difference is that Samara lacks these more than other Volga cities. It is also dirtier, dustier, and smellier than, for example, Kazan and Astrakhan; it has worse pavements than in Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl,» wrote Maxim Gorky about Samara.

Modern residents or visitors to our city sometimes leave no less scathing comments. We studied reviews of iconic city locations and compiled them into a test. Try to guess which places in Samara are praised and criticized!