VIEWS OF AND FROM OUR APARTMENT

The steel door has two deadlocks and locking bolts around 3 sides of the frame. We were the only apartment to have a light outside on the landing

The entrance to our block, which was better than most. The paper notice on the door evidently says "Don't throw rubbish out of the windows"

A good view of the central area between the blocks. Designed and built long before anyone would ever have expected to have a car, cars are now parked everywhere. They have destroyed all of the pavements and much of the "green" area, which itself is not maintained. Rubbish is piled up in the open area and regularly burnt (Underneath a sign that says "No fires")

From our kitchen window, looking at the Childrens Hospital, where Mother and baby spent the first month. The building is typical in the exterior "non maintained" appearance and 40 years of Magadan climate has taken its toll. Evidently, the inside is fine and full of new equipment. We saw kids taken outside to play a couple of times, although the grounds are not maintained either.
They say a new hospital is to be built "soon"

Looking the other way, towards a main road. The block in the distance is where we went for lunch to a "USSR" old-style workers canteen