It's day 16 on my trip to Russia and I have been to Saint Petersburg, Ufa and now am in Moscow. I wish to heck I had written a little more often because it's all getting fuzzy.

Saint Petersburg - stayed at one of Oksana's apartments. Nevsky 72. It's half a block east of Fontanka canal. Excellent location. Unfortunately, it's also about 200 paces from Magrib's so it waaaay too easy to drop by on the way home if I was feeling lazy.

MAGRIB
While I was there three times I only left with a girl once. It was 3 AM and I was only one of 3 or 4 guys left so the girls where left at that hour were willing to negotiate. I was able to get a lovely dark haired beauty named Victoria down to 4000 Rubles ($220) for "as long as it took". She would not sleep over but said that she would stay until I told her to go. Wow - sounds like a challenge. Had a nice time with her but nothing special. Kicked her out at about 5:30 AM as I actually had to work the next day.

The next time I dropped into Magribs, it was because I was temporarily lock out of my apartment. Chuck (Oksana’s husband) told me he would bring me the key but it would be a few hours so I decided to sit and wait at Magrib. It was only 11:00 PM so the place was only just starting to fill up. Two girls sat next to me at the and I just assumed they were working girls but they were not. They were just two little gold digging party girls who wanted someone to buy them drinks. WTF – I bought them a few until Chuck arrived with my key. When he did, the girls told me that we were leaving and going to another dance club. By now I’d had enough drinks to go along with it for a while. Katya was gorgeous and spoke English but was a bitch. Her friend Inessa was not quite as nice but cute and fairly quiet with limited English. Long story short – after much drama, Inessa came home with me and slept over after we ditched her pretty friend.

MAXIMUS
I was in Peiter on business and some of the guys I was with wanted to hit a strip club. They were all staying at the Astoria Hotel so the doorman suggested we go to MAXIMUS which was just up the street a ways at Kerpechney, 8 which is a block south of Nevsky. The girls were absolutely gorgeous. It was the usual crap where they come near you, wiggle their hips and tits and then ask you for 100 Rubles. At lease at Safari Lodge in Moscow they would give you a lap dance. Of course, they wanted to give you a private dance but I didn’t take the bait. I think they wanted a couple thousand rubles for 15 minutes or something like that. Still a rip off. But definitely a good alternative to Golden Dolls, which I didn’t even bother with this time.

TRIBUNAL
Tribunal Bar is just off Nevsky right near Fontanka. It had just re-opened after a lengthy renovation. Nice place with lots of excellent looking girls. I was there with a blind date that I met on www.mamba.ru Let me tell you, these sites are gold. I spent about $100 on Zhenya between a light dinner and drinks. We ended up doing tequila shots which I knew would lead to no good. Sure enough, by 4:00 AM she was too drunk to walk and I ended up taking her back to my place. Sex was out of the question as we were both pretty looped. Next morning we were both pretty hung over so the only thing we shared next morning was breakfast. BUT – she sent me an SMS a few days later saying “I WANT YOU” so you can pretty much guess how that ended up. Again, about $100 very well spent. Had I not been with Zhenya, I think that I would have gone back to Tribunal that next night. Definitely lots of pretty girls looking for fun.

SECURITY WARNING
Walking back from Tribunal to my apartment at 4:00 AM we were stopped by two policemen. They could see that we were both pretty drunk and asked for documents and to allow them to pat us down. They went through all of my pockets saying that they were looking for drugs and weapons. It wasn’t until after I has returned to the apartment that the bastards had relieved me of about 5,000 rubles ($200) cash. Apparently this is a common practice in SPB. Two nights later the same thing was about to occur, but this time I held my passport and my wallet and cash in the other before I “assumed the position”. The cops picked up on this and realized I knew what was going on, so they sent me on my with minimal trouble. If you ever get stopped by the cops, make sure you have your cash in your hand while they frisk you. Otherwise, all of the big bills will disappear.

While I had ample opportunity to try them, I did not visit the Salonas. I was having too much fun with the amateurs.

UFA
I spent two nights in Ufa, the capital city of the Independent Republic of Bashkortostan. Well, not really two nights because my flight arrived a 2 AM and I didn’t get to the hotel until 3 AM. But I did go straight to the bar at the Hotel Bashkortostan where the girls were just winding things down for the night. As first glance I was pretty impressed with the quality of the girls. Ufa is about 800 miles due east of Moscow. It’s more or less on the west slope of the Ural mountains and two hours ahead of Moscow. Ufa lies on the banks of the White River which eventually flows into the Caspian. This year, Bashkortostan is celebrating their 400th anniversary of being part of Russia. Ufa was made a significant city because during WW2, Stalin moved a many of the USSR’s manufacturing to Ufa because it was out the range of Hitler’s bombers. There are about 1.2 million people living in Ufa so it’s a city of some substance.

OK, so much for the National Geographic tour. The girls in Ufa are something to behold. While the girls in Moscow and Peiter are nothing too shabby, the ones in Ufa seem to be the result of several generations of mixing between the indigenous Bashkirs, the regional Tatars and the ethnic Russians themselves. The product is a sea of rosy cheeked babes with a very nice way about them.

I had lunch one day in a Bashkir restaurant one day and could not believe how gorgeous the waitresses were. I wanted to meet the owner and congratulate him on the beauty of his staff. One waitress in particular was so stunning that I could NOT take my eyes off of her. If I had had more time, I would certainly have taken a run at her (note to self).

I was fortunate enough to have a business colleague who lives in Ufa and was able to give me the grand tour of nightlife in Ufa. We started with dinner at a nice Sushi place that was crawling with tables of very well dressed beautiful girls eating Sushi and chatting away. Not too bad for a Monday night. We were dressed in business attire so we were the target of their glances and I am certain that with a little work there would have been a score. Again, the striking thing in Ufa was the look of the women. Absolutely exotic. You could clearly see the influence of the Tatars on the facial feature of these little lovelies. Well dressed with perfect hair and make-up. Not an eyelash out of place.

There are three dance clubs in Ufa worth mentioning. “A” Café, Prospect, and Jet. All three are supposed to be crawling with amateurs looking for fun. While it was only Monday night, there was a reasonable crowd by 11:00 PM in all three places. I did not really see any “working girls” like you might see at the Boarhouse (now Hot Dog) or Night Flight. Most seemed to be there to dance and have fun. But I was assured that there was a good chance of not going home alone. Unfortunately, being Monday night and having an early meeting on Tuesday, I didn’t feel like there was all that much to choose from and decided that I need to get back to the hotel for a sure thing.

Back at the hotel, it was touching midnight and there was a good selection of girls working the bar. I settled on a redheaded spinner named Gullia and negotiated for a few minutes. She initially wanted 8000 rubles until I reminded her that this was Ufa, not Moscow and that this was not Night Flight. Her face turned as red as her hair and she slinked away to consider things. When I came back to the table from the men’s room there was a look of relief on her face because she must have thought I was bailing out for the night. She came over and whispered 5000 in my ear and I countered with 4000 to which she nodded and asked my room number. 10 minutes later there was a knock at the door.

After a quick currency conversion, I realized that I was probably over-paying for Ufa and quizzed her about the price. Guillia told me that 4,000 rubles has been about normal for Ufa and has been for several years. She seemed to be oblivious to the conversion rate and the plight of the dollar. Had this been three years earlier and the dollar been worth 33 rubles, I realized it would have been a $120 dollar which is what I would have expected for the locale and the girl. Still, I had no complaints.

SUMMARY
While it was a very, very, short trip I got a very favorable impression of Ufa. Nice people and a reasonably sophisticated nightlife scene for a city so far away from Moscow. I doubt that anyone can justify a mongering trip to Ufa, but if you ever find yourself faced with a trip to Ufa, have no fear.

I went to the Maximus and payed for a private dance, but there`s no touching so i gave her a couple of 100 rubles more and felt her up, as this was going on she kept an eye on the door in case the bouncer checked up on us.

Awesome. I love Russia posts. Favorite place to dream about.


Any pics from this trip?

Thanks RioJake for the report. I enjoyed reading it. I've been to Russia a couple of times in 1998, and as much as I love the women of So America I've got a real weak spot for those Soviet babes, damn though they're not cheap anymore.