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taler, 07.11.2006 1:28

After all, I'll give you an account of my trip to Russia.28.08.06
The trip, in principle, was a business trip.But I decided to stay and do a little bit of Russian polyarcts.
Russia,upon arrival, immediately unpleasantly surprised with cold weather.Well, what for business, the middle of summer, and overboard +8C,
cloudy and rainy...What kind of butterflies could we talk about when I was close to suspended animation myself?A warm memory was the meeting
with Helen, who turned out to be a very nice, sociable, interesting woman.Her optimistic prediction that summer should still come came true
, though not immediately.
On the train from Moscow to Yekaterinburg, I did not look up from the window-what a riot of nature and greenery.And the scale!...In the region of Mordovia, I finally saw the Russian sun
...butterflies.I wanted to jump out of the train right away and catch a couple of whiteflies,but,alas,the parking lot was not long.I consoled myself with the fact that maybe it would still be summer in the Urals
and I would not only be able to see butterflies.
Yekaterinburg was met with torrential rains and even colder temperatures.The weather forecast for the next 10 days was not comforting at all.And yet,
a couple of days before departure, good weather arrived.Although there were some plans for the day, but everything was abandoned.I didn't know exactly where to go,
and I didn't want to go deeper into the woods,because I would be partisan there until the end of my days.Therefore, I decided to drive 100-120 kilometers by train,and take a walk
along the embankment of the railway track.After all,I saw butterflies,even whiteflies, from the train.Yes, and there were plenty of different flowers, which undoubtedly should have attracted
lepidoptera.And I wasn't wrong!Probably the insects got sick of such a summer, and they were mostly happy about the warm day.Well, I rejoiced with them.Angleflies,
mother-of-pearl, satyrs,whiteflies(I'm sorry, I haven't determined yet)-fluttered over the flowers along the canvas.I am sure that they are all typical background banals,but for me
this was also a treasure trove.What is called-broke.Almost everything I caught was new to me, and especially expensive,because it was personally caught.Protopav 15-17km
decided to brake at the station where waiting for the train all caught and caught.
There were also some interesting discoveries.For example, butterflies that are still old after 17 hours.(In Israel,because of the heat, butterflies disappear after 13 hours).Maybe this
is typical for Russia,or maybe it is due to rainy days.It is a pity, of course,that we managed to leave only once,and it was not possible to make more accurate observations,
but good material was collected,at least for me.