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[Asnia]

Hi. I'm from russian and I in this year started to read books and artikles about minerals. I hope to find interesting information and interesting people on this forum.

[Jordi Fabre]

Welcome to FMF Asnia.

Russia is one of the more promising countries for the hobby, I believe that russian people have the culture, carachter and conditions to enjoy a lot the mineralogy in a close future.

Jordi

[Pete Modreski]

Hi to Asnia,

I had the pleasure of visiting Russia once, a trip to the Kola Peninsula (and St. Petersburg) back in the early 1990s; it was great (we were hosted by Dr. Nataly Krasnova of St. Petersburg University). There are fascinating variety of minerals from that huge country, and the people are wonderful to visit.

I'll put in an advance plug here, the theme of next year's (Sep. 16-18 2011) Denver Gem and Mineral Show will be "Minerals of Russia".

May I also put in a plug, for the fine series of magazine issues published (in English) by Michael Leybov and Ludmila Cheshko (member of this Forum) as Mineralogical Almanac/Mineral Observer; their website, https://www.minbook.com/

Pete

[Jason]

Hello Asnia..kick back and stay awhile..keep up the reading and learning and try to get your hands of a few specimens/crystals..Russia is full of them

[Tobi]

Hi Asnia, and welcome here :-)

[Asnia]

Thank you. Its very nice to see so much hello message.

[Asnia]

I have read some theads in this forum and understood that they is really interested but I have not some much knowledge about minerals. So I decided that now, when I'm not so competent in the minerals I kan start the communication in off-topic. And I want to ask you about your perferences and tastes. May i do it or not? Is it interesting to answer the questions about your favorite books or films? Or you have this topics on this orum but i could not find it?

[Jordi Fabre]

[Asnia]

But why don't you have such topics in "off-topic" forum? Do you have another forum or place for general discussion? Or do you not interesting in general informaton about your interlocutors?
I saw many special forum with off-topis forum where people discuss films they watched and many other objects.

Yes, i have read many topics but my knowledge in mineralogy not good enought for a caan take part in this discussion)) And of course, my English isn't so good :)