Aha!  I finally found these photos - some nice shots of colleagues at Sosnovka on the outskirts of Vladivostok in 2004.



Ira Bogdan and her dog Gretta.
















Me and Gretta.


Can you believe this is the Russian Far East in September?  It was beautiful.




The beach was pretty garbagey, though.

This is a dumpster.

Painted on the side:

"Keeping the city clean is easy!"






On one of the nights we were in Vladivostok proper I got taken to a local lesbian club by my friend Zhenya (the blonde).  There was a cute DJ (in the red shirt) with an even cuter puppy she had just rescued.  We three plus Zhenya's girlfriend were literally everyone at the club.  So we just doted on the puppy all night, with the club music booming.  Here we are trying to give the puppy some water.

Our cute DJ host named the puppy "Mix."