Oleg Kashin: "About Ples"
Oleg Kashin "...I suddenly realized that Ples, like any other place, can seem quite charming if you were brought to it - well, okay, not by helicopter, but by a car with a flashing light or even on a bus escorted by the traffic police, you took a photo on the banks of the Volga, you were given smoked bream wrapped in paper and some kind of malachite double-headed eagle, and you go to sleep in a fenced-in “guest house” - yes, of course, Plyos in this format is charming...