Much as I would like, I do not often have the opportunity to travel the world in search of its most exotic dates in metal. I do get to some pretty exciting places - Somerville, for example - but those only come along so often. Fortunately, I have a few friends who are willing to enable this hobby of mine on their own time. Pete Sigrist was doing his dissertation research in Moscow, and he was good enough to take a few snapshots of the manhole covers that he found during his time there. Thus, in the spirit of glasnost, I now share these pictures from Russia. Thanks Pete!
A manhole cover from the early days of the Brezhnev era.
And another.
This one doesn't have a date, but it looks much older than the others. It also has some colorful designs that invite one to speculate that it might be pre-Soviet? Peter found this in Red Square.
