Rîbnița(Ribnitz in the project's index)2018-06-268 min · 3 stretchesRussian 95%
Not online: the recording is held by the project and is not on Media Collections Online, YouTube or archive.org. Everything below is a paraphrase of a machine transcript, the weaker of this site's two transcript layers — see how it was made.
Summary
A camera file of about seven and a half minutes, recorded in Rybnitsa (Ribnitz), 26 June 2018. It is not an interview: it is Russian-language travel-vlog footage of two or three women walking through the town. They walk along Kirov Street, pass a courtyard, go into a post office and cross a park, ending with remarks about a 70-year-old woman interviewed earlier. No Yiddish is heard.
Stretches
00:00–02:47
In Russian, the presenter says they have just finished the last interview of the day with a woman named Tatyana Vasilyevna. She then walks along Kirov Street in Rybnitsa. She greets children named Anya, Maksim and Misha, jokes about the street name and an upside-down sign, and remarks on a Soviet-style courtyard, the cats and the Transnistrian rubles. She compares Rybnitsa to a country within a country.
In Russian, the group goes into a post office and talks with a clerk about sending something home to Moscow. They ask about items for sale there, and the clerk answers briefly. The presenter jokes about the project bringing out hidden talents, including those of the camera operator Faina (?).
Footagelife today· Moscow
05:03–07:40
In Russian, the presenter describes the park, naming its trees (birch, spruce, chestnut, plane, lilac, blue spruce) and the damp ground that explains the blue spruces. She notes the patched roads and the small coffin-like objects by the benches. She then says they are about to transcribe the day's material, and comments on the lively 70-year-old Tatyana who does not want to move to Israel. The segment ends with the group looking for the way to the Victory (Pobeda) monument.