Guess the City

Is that Erdogan in those bizarre wall photos?

don’t think so

This shouldn't be too difficult but I'm failing so far. So it's some sort of museum exhibit for a mid-century leader/dictator, either Soviet or Middle-Eastern. Picture on the right at the back looks like it might be Lenin. On the glass cabinet on the right there is what looks like a map, I tried to fit it with any of the stans or maybe Mongolia, but it doesn't work. It most resembles Iran, but I don't see how an exhibit like this could fit in with Iran's history, so I'm stumped.

Actually no I don't think Lenin's in the mix there, all the pics on the right are the same man, an older balder version of the young man in the scarf. Keep thinking it might be Ataturk but no, he didn't make it to old age.

the bowing statuette, the scarf he's wearing in the central portrait (yeah, it's a cliche but) - is he a famous theater figure?

big portrait of Odo from deep space nine.

i think the things in the cabinets are various gifts. (i took the bowing man to be japanese)

i was thinking theatre person too. this is a good one

I am pretty sure that is Ennio Morricone

Looks like him from a distance, also a trumpet in one of the exhibiting cabinets

I can't imagine such a bizarrely chintzy tribute to the man tho, lacking film posters and/or statuettes, so I'm probably wrong

theatre or opera, with some of the costume attributes to the right

There's no way that room is Western European. It's got that Soviet or Soviet-influenced vibe.

On the left, there are a series of certificates with an errant hot-air balloon as the logo, and it seems as if there is a statue of the same, as if this organization has honoured this individual repeatedly. I don't know what that logo is connected to.

It's an odd one. Definitely feels opera-related but not really grand enough for any of the major Soviet houses. It's not the Bakhrushin or Chaliapin museums. The central portrait looks contemporary, so possibly the current director of a company. The building in the picture on the left has an onion dome. I'm leaning towards somewhere like Simferopol or Sevastopol.

what about the main cabinet on the right? is the woman on the colour pic (or is it a painting?) the same as the one on the b/w pic in the smaller cabinet to the right of it? there's also what might be a photo of the actor (?) with a woman (the same one? his wife?) on the top shelf.
plus a ceramic figurine in a yellow dress, and, perhaps more interestingly, what looks like a crown of sorts, or is it a traditional female head dress? - or is it something else altogether?

Zelda Zonk, where do you see that map?

I suspect I might be imagining it at this stage but it definitely looks to me like the top shelf of the cabinet on the right has a women’s headdress nearest to camera and a Boris Godunov-style prop crown partly obscured by the reflection.

xp second glass case from right, bottom shelf. May not be a map though

I thought it might be that one - I associated it with the comedy/tragedy twin masks

can anyone make out the script on the certificates on the left? is it Latin/Roman or something else?

xp hmmmm... maybe you're right!

it might just be wishful watching tho

Again, I might be imagining it but I think the text of the framed certificate says диплом (diploma) but it is fuzzy.

Think you're right. And in the third cabinet on the left there's a picture of what looks like a Byzantine cathedral or maybe mosque just to narrow this down...not at all.

oh re-reading properly and ShariVari caught that already

Leaning more towards Ashgabat now, though not with much to justify that.

the building in the third cabinet on the left doesn't look like it has a dome to me? I get medieval castle ruin vibes but "ruins used as opera backdrops" doesn't narrow it down a lot either

https://i.postimg.cc/MGgN9fp4/yx.jpg

and outside

https://i.postimg.cc/85KJ8Gxq/yx.jpg

and outside

tram looks older/less round/bigger windows than the iconic Tatra models I've seen

Barnaul

ding ding ding! October square

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3554363,83.7692881,3a,75y,150.34h,95.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suSf2UHJIBCaG8Im9fNKBGQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

well done! so who's the dude with the scarf?

no idea

I think it's Valery Zolotukhin, but haven't found the photo yet

I think it is Valery also

That was pretty quick from the exterior, maybe I should have left it a while on the interior

It's in the Altai State Theatre for Children:

https://goo.gl/maps/oZq4W4eGTNG9M7fW9

No idea who the guy is but the building in the picture does have onion domes!

looks like a match with other photos of Valeri I've found

I'm not so into setting these so anyone else feel free to go ahead

from Russian Wikipedia:

“Since 2003, he was the artistic director of the State Youth Theater of Altai.”

there WAS a dome! I sit corrected

can’t find the portrait either, but he was most definitely a scarf guy!

this still (from a play, I assume) matches the series of pics on the right wall:

https://img.dni.ru/binaries/v2_photo/69859.jpg

glad this was sorted right out of the trolley gate, the research would have ruined my working day

https://i.postimg.cc/XYzVzYnS/za.jpg

Hopefully your work for the day is done

Fleetwood, Lancashire, UK

third google image result for 'private school on the coast beach' :P

Hopefully your work for the day is done

https://i.imgur.com/uo6joEm.jpg

a different coast

googling Caribbean cruise ports...

my first inkling was something like Dakar

Moose Factory, Ontario

Saint John's, Antigua

https://www.google.be/maps/@17.1157882,-61.8424233,3a,75y,178.41h,77.09t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNifKipnSrKyAGAfbazbAuNEe3NtSqdSx6w8fLH!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNifKipnSrKyAGAfbazbAuNEe3NtSqdSx6w8fLH%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya341.45566-ro0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096