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More About the Dramatic Theatre Webcam in Novokuznetsk

Apr 1, 2008
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My previous post talked about two public webcams in Russia. Well, tonight I looked on Google Maps and found a satellite picture of one of the webcam locations! The webcam labeled Dramatic Theatre shows a pretty distinctive fountain and a garden-like area. It was easy to find it on Google Maps once I had found the city of Novokuznetsk.
Here is a picture from the webcam and another from the Google Maps satellite picture.

Novokuznetsk Dramatic Theatre Webcam

Novokuznetsk Dramatic Theatre Google Maps

Now, I still don't know if the webcam is showing the Dramatic Theatre itself, or is just showing the view from the Dramatic Theatre. I think that the pillared building on the left of the webcam picture is the Dramatic Theatre, because the satellite picture shows a row of boring-looking buildings in the area the webcam is probably mounted.

(Yeah, that building is definitely the Theatre. I just googled "Novokuznetsk drama theater" and got a Google Map with that building tagged, and a tourist site with a labeled picture of Drama Theatre.)

So, does this make me a virtual tourist, a cyberpunk traveller?

Now I just need to make contact with a web-savvy English-speaking resident of Novokuznetsk. It would be so cool to find a person who would go to that webcam location and communicate with me somehow, maybe by waving, drawing on the sidewalk, holding up a large poster, or sticking their head out a passing bus. Oh, or writing a message on the roof of their car! The speed the cars are moving, I would have about three seconds to see the message and take a screenshot. Maybe I can find a program that takes and saves rapid screenshots.

Ideally, I would find a person who speaks English and works at or near the Drama Theatre. I need to do some research on the city of Novokuznetsk, on the Drama Theatre, and on how easy it would be to find such a person.

Russian Daylight is 8:00 PM my time . . .

Mar 31, 2008
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Recently, I've been watching public webcams from Russia. Don't ask me why, but I find them fascinating.

The first one I came across was this webcam which shows lots of buses. It must be a bus terminal. A bright electronic billboard distorts much of the picture at night (during my day). I found a nearby link for another webcam without glaring lights. This second place seems to have a large fountain that's not on right now. If you watch long enough, buses will stop for a few seconds to pick up/drop off passengers.

Both webcams seem to be in a city called Novokuznetsk. My friendly neighbourhood Wikipedia pointed me to a photo someone took of the second webcam location. The picture shows the fountain working! Babel Fish told me that that location is the Dramatic Theatre.

Sweet, eh? Did I ever tell you how much I love the Internet? Now I can watch those webcams knowing a tiny bit more about the city!

Remember how I was wondering earlier about where I could travel to? Maybe I should go to Novokuznetsk, find all the webcams, and wave at them!