Thread by @Daractenus

During the recent Vietnam visit, given Russia's vast experience on the topic, Putin graciously offered to assist Vietnam in building "smart cities" and urban infrastructure.

Inspired by it, I made a list of posh Russian cities you should consider for your next travel abroad.🧵

While a romantic sunset, sunrise or the sun in general is not something you're likely to experience in Norilsk - a city that fields a beautiful bi-annual Biblical plague when the local river runs red, is one for sure bound to go straight to your heart (and likely lungs).

Sporting an exquisite smog bound to satisfy even the most pretentious of the coal enthusiasts, Vorkuta prides itself in a rich history of forced labor and a perfectly conserved pristine 1930s sewage system.

Sporting several new strains of hepatitis and a very diverse ethnic mix, Chita's public sanitation system and the city's vast array of culinary delights are guaranteed to take dysentery to a whole new level and make for a truly incurable experience you will not easily forget.

Magadan, sometimes affectionately refereed to by its residents as "the place I dream of leaving", managed to reinvent the concept urban infrastructure and, not being one to let the lack of cars or residents stand in the way, fields internationally acclaimed traffic jams.

Appetizingly known as "the cold corner of hell" and having a very deep hole in ground as it's main attraction, Murmansk is beloved to all for it's very sober and mild-mannered residents, which are bound to rob of sympathy any traveler that comes their way.