I Love Moscow. But I Hate This Area!

[@dianochka5432]

Thank you for this. I agree with you about Moscow - best city in the world - and about Old Arbat, which is such a wasted opportunity. But I’d give anything to be able to walk down it today. Miss my beloved city so much!

[@JonnyTickle]

I'm sure you'll have the chance one day

[@Lunsky73]

I remember the time when there was not a single Turkish shop or snack bar on Arbat.

[@alexanderkuptsov6117]

Your Russian pronunciation is great, by the way!

[@JonnyTickle]

That's nice of you to say! But I'm trying hard to get better

[@markizastreasurehunt6108]

Thank you for this video. I just subscribed to your channel and looking forward to other videos on Moscow !

[@ChamaraSumanapala]

Thank you very much for this. I have walked down that street, starting from the other end. I was a bit sad that you did not show the large Zhukov painting... While I agree that the souvenir shops are rather dull, I love the atmosphere in Old Arbat, especially in summer, with art and books etc. A small request: If possible, do a video on the Izmailovsky market and the Novodevichy Cemetery. That cemetery is the resting place of so many famous Russians. Thank you!

[@ДмитрийШайтура]

Тогда и Ваганьковское кладбище. Там похоронено много деятелей культуры и спортсменов.

[@Semi0ffGrid7]

I am going to try and visit Moscow in the summer with my family, looks amazing!

[@pearldupont4049]

Okudzhava praised Arbat as a jewel. "Ah, Arbat, you, Arbat, you are my refuge..." Only Arbat was different then.

[@JonnyTickle]

Of course, it was unrecognisable when compared to today.

[@alexanderkuptsov6117]

I don't like Arbat very much either. I love the nearby small lanes but not Arbat itself.

[@JonnyTickle]

I honestly don't know anyone who likes it!

[@sourboy66]

I used to hang out at the middle bench right near the statue of Pushkin😭😭 there's no way to describe how much I miss this place and this city and my Elena

[@JonnyTickle]

Why don't you return?

[@pearldupont4049]

Thank you for the excursion down Arbat street. As a Moscovite I haven't been there for years and it was very interesting for me to know about changes on Arbat. And the historical part of your trip was also so cognitive. I don't love Arbat that much too, though I was born in Moscow.

[@JonnyTickle]

Glad you enjoyed it! I wouldn't rush to Arbat any time soon

[@nickolaspetrov2786]

It’s a pity that Tucker Carlson saw Moscow for the first time in such terrible weather. First impressions play an important role. If only he had arrived in the summer, he would have seen a different Moscow.

[@ri-oj1ul]

They should have taken him to VDNH, which even covered in snow and in the worst weather is still an amazing experience

[@Quantummechanics-p4o]

I was in Moscow last month and walk the old Arbat several times, it may look tacky for Russians but many Europeans and Americans it look very nice and warm and full of life at night, if you want to see tacky streets go to Paris or London there you will find plenty places that are tacky and unsafe.

[@AlexeiEmanov]

Джонни всегда интересно смотреть 🙂

[@GreenBaldrick]

AHH, Old Arbat is terrible😅😅😅 in the Soviet times it was a cozy and iconic street where intelligentsia lived and poets recited their poems, but in the 90s it was ruined) I think if they closed all cheap souvenir shops selling kitch, prohibited promoters, and put more trees - it could be a pleasant street, but now I just despair when I see tourists visiting it - I don't want them to think this place defines Moscow😢

[@JonnyTickle]

Completely agree... awful place despite such great architecture and history

[@j.k.1239]

Love the European architecture.Minimalistic architecture nowadays looks ugly.

[@JonnyTickle]

The architecture in central Moscow is great

[@Quantummechanics-p4o]

Moscow has an amazing architecture, it’s a huge and very clean city, more than 3 times bigger than NY and the most populated city in the whole Europe , despite these facts the city is just beautiful . Saint Petersburg has even more impressive European architecture.

[@Vadimus1980]

Agreed absolutely!!👍

[@wassdepp1]

I liked the video, and I guess I understood your point.

[@JonnyTickle]

I don't need everyone to agree, but glad I got my view across

[@ПетрПетров-щ3о]

Англо-сакс спецом грит медленно, шоб русские смогли расслышать слова и понять?😂

[@lumisuomessa7598]

Thanks a lot. The new film "The Master and Margarita" came out. It would be interesting to see what the places described by Bulgakov look like today. Have you already read the novel 'The Master and Margaruta'? Perhaps you will like it.

[@JonnyTickle]

Of course I've read the book! I should definitely watch the movie.

[@lumisuomessa7598]

​@@JonnyTickleThat's good. The novel is indeed deeply philosophical. I expected more fom the movie, but of course this is just my subjective opinion.

[@Snowman13230]

The new movie has little to do with Bulgakov's novel, it's more of a political pamphlet.

[@SergeyAnatolich]

A new movie, incompetent :(

[@xalekcey]

- "Well, did you want a change? Get it." Does everyone still want a change? Be afraid of your desires.

[@ЮраМакс]

Если это по отношению к российскому народу,то огромное большинство россиян полностью поддерживают такие перемены.

[@dazhsh7109]

@@ЮраМаксКакие такие?

[@lalabrin3948]

Thanks for your commenting, the "trendy babushkas" made me smile)) The knock-off Big Mac is also interesting from the vocabulary point of view!

[@JonnyTickle]

Glad you enjoyed it! always good to add some humour in

[@erdemtabdanov6399]

I share your sentiments on this particular street. It used to be better, though. Even in early 2000s it was a little better, more genuine, atmospheric. But now it is just a hollow husk of itself, just a commercialized venue, full of the 'meh!' restaurants and souvenir shops. I feel the same towards Montmartre in Paris. Time Square in NYC. The entire central London. A tacky theme park. Boring. Mummified history.

[@LuckyBraveGirl]

Hi Jonny! Thank you for your content! Maybe you can make a video about popular Russian movies or tv shows (like «Слово Пацана») and your thoughts on them if you have watched any?

[@MajorKlanga]

If it's anything like Oxford Street then many of those shops might be money laundering outfits.

[@americaneagle76]

GOOD VIDEO, THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

[@JonnyTickle]

Thanks for watching!

[@sourboy66]

I love this street I spent so much time hanging out here while my girl did her work in the neighborhoods and I even was lucky enough to get to McDonald's that was there at the end and I always found a nice secret bathroom just in the left-hand building where you started this video. I came back to California just before the invasion of Ukraine only to get a new Visa so I could return to my home in Moscow where I had been living for 3 years with my beautiful girl. I miss her so much I have a moral conflict with living there right now so it's nice to see this video and reminds me of the place that I spent so much time making so many awesome friends and hanging out

[@Quantummechanics-p4o]

Travel to Russia and surprise your girlfriend , I just been there for the second time , I will never get bored there , I am planning to move there .

[@Lunsky73]

I go to your channel to listen to the correct English.

[@JonnyTickle]

That's nice to hear!

[@Mike-m7q]

Public transport stinks of curry in the UK, yuk. Some people eat it day and night.

[@НатальяШ-г7п]

You are absolutely right, it's too commercial now days, unreasonably overpriced, overdone with tacky decorations, too much of everything makes this street look tasteless, ugly. I do remember Arbat when it was just a street, popular among the young people when gathered into groups at night playing guitars, singing .

[@billbauer9795]

I heard a lot about Arbat Street, but I have never seen it before. Now that I've seen your video, I am not impressed! I don't mind the souvenir shops, I can just look up and ignore them. But the buildings themselves aren't particularly beautiful or special. Contrast this with, say Glasgow, where most buildings blow one's mind.

[@Quantummechanics-p4o]

You would surrender to the beauty of Moscow if you visited it , the city is huge and clean, safe and build in a bigger scale . There is a KZbinr from Scotland I often watch, it is called Scottish guy in Moscow

[@Vadimus1980]

The Street should be reconstructed! It's way outdated! The renovation they made on New Arbat is an example!) The trees are absolutely necessary! Some herbs and flowers would be nice too! The street, actually, could be made warm(heated street) and green for most of the year. Just think of Zaryad'e Park or the embankment in Museon (part of Gorkiy Park).

[@allawalksnfilms]

Thanks a lot! What's your favorite Moscow street?

[@burt3907]

Jonny Tinkle, you said you love Indian food. I do too, and I cook it myself. I am from Melbourne, and I am a retired pest control operator. In all my years in the industry, I have come across many a time, when a restaurateur would call me to treat his restaurant for German cocroach. This usually happens when a health inspector forces him to shut the place, and have it treated. In almost 90% of the time, it's an Indian restaurant.

[@Maid-en-Head]

I totally agree! Arbat is a shame. The street I always avoid.

[@naruma_12345]

О боже!,,Презервативная,, это типа секс-шоп по новому, с заменой английских слов😂? Жесть какая-то. И название и сам факт ((( А в целом, сувенирная улица - это удобно для туристов напокупать всего в одном месте. Хотя не знаю, что там с ценами...

[@xalekcey]

а почему жесть? а "Секс" по вашему не жесть для названия?

[@anarollec]

7:43 is that a modern talking with orchestre poster? i thought they disbanded a thousand years ago 😧😧

[@JonnyTickle]

it's a tribute act I believe

[@newtonshiggers]

2:38 Willy. Shaped. Sweets. 4king lol!!

[@JonnyTickle]

didn't know how to say it without alerting the youtube censors haha

[@newtonshiggers]

@@JonnyTickle To be honest, it was alot funnier than if you'd have said dick, cock or fkstick.

[@pavelkroll]

Да я не люблю Арбат тоже. Слишком много промоутеров, магазинов, людей, вывесок, торгашей, хитрых барыг наживающихся на бедных туристах. Все это похоже на китайский рынок. Надеюсь когда-нибудь это будет местом притяжения респектабельной публики, место с лучшими ресторанами и барами в городе, красивым озеленением.

[@ПетрПетров-щ3о]

2:35 😂😂😂😂

[@raywasabi2900]

Amazing!

[@maelstrom254]

Arbat stuck in 2000s

[@pinetworkminer8377]

That's what makes the place even more charming! 👍

[@watcher8582]

Remind me, if you were to keep going where you were headed, is there a big bridge coming in front of you?

[@JonnyTickle]

Yeah, sort of. It's the bridge to Kievskiy vokzal

[@Igorinrussia]

Dont hate Arbata :D (I dont like the tourist streets of Saint Petersburg neither by the way even tho adore the city )

[@JonnyTickle]

I can't stand all the tourist souvenir shops and the guys dressed in costumes... it ruins such a beautiful and historic street

[@widjoh]

I've been there, and I also reacted to the tourist souvenir shops and people dressed in costumes..... Almost like Nicolscaya street where you meet Stalin and Lenin on almost each corner..@@JonnyTickle

[@JonnyTickle]

@@widjoh you're right! it's even worse in the summer when it is tourist season

[@AsterixYZ]

Jonny I am with you on that one, and I hate this commercialized crap as well. This is what this historic street used to look like back in the day, before Luzhkov ( or whoever it was) decided to turn it into crap. Enjoy the view.:) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl6Zkpatd9V6q8U

[@AsterixYZ]

P.S. There is something else you might enjoy when it comes to this street and its history - kzbin.info/www/bejne/paWvd3-DZbybbLM

[@врлввывп]

This guy from MI6