Лабаз газоперекачка
The place
Лабаз газоперекачка ("Pipeline compressor shed") in Yaroslavl Oblast, Pereslavl-Zalessky/Rostov area (Golden Ring, central Russia), at 178 m elevation, on the central Russian plain. Part of the continuous Russia Golden Ring cluster (batches 340-395, 2 entries). A shed at a Gazprom gas-pipeline compressor station (Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly, 350,000 employees, 30% of GDP, 60% of exports to the EU + the Yamal-Europe/Nord Stream 1 pipeline, 2011, and Nord Stream 2, 2011, sabotaged on 26 September 2022 in the Baltic + Pereslavl-Zalessky, population 40,000, historic, UNESCO 1993, 8 twelfth-century churches, birthplace of Alexander Nevsky + Rostov, population 30,000, UNESCO 1955, an ivory-white 15th-century Kremlin + the Golden Ring, 8 historic cities, designated 1969 + Russian heritage of the Golden Ring + Putin, 2000-2025, 25 years in power, authoritarian + the war in Ukraine, 2022-2025, sanctions reducing Yamal-Europe flow by around 2 million barrels/day + the Wagner Group's Prigozhin mutiny, 23-24 June 2023, an aborted march on Moscow via Rostov, followed by his death in a plane crash on 23 August 2023, an iconic episode).
The setting
Yaroslavl, Pereslavl-Zalessky/Rostov, Golden Ring, central Russia, 178 m, central Russian plain; continuous cluster batches 340-395, 2 entries; Gazprom pipeline compressor-station shed, 350,000 employees, 30% of GDP, 60% of EU exports + Yamal-Europe/Nord Stream 1/2, 2011, sabotaged 26 Sept 2022 in the Baltic + Pereslavl-Zalessky, population 40,000, UNESCO 1993, 8 twelfth-century churches, Nevsky + Rostov, population 30,000, UNESCO 1955, ivory-white 15th-century Kremlin + Golden Ring, 8 cities, designated 1969; Putin 2000-2025, 25 years + war in Ukraine 2022-2025, sanctions, Yamal flow cut by ~2 million barrels/day + Wagner/Prigozhin mutiny 23-24 June 2023, aborted march on Moscow via Rostov, death in plane crash 23 August 2023.
