Travel agents that specialize in Tver
Hand-picked links to Tver-related sites in English.
Staying out of trouble in Tver
Business support services in Tver and
vicinity
(private persons welcomed too)
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I'm moving my Tver pages to www.staritsa.info/tver.htm Go there for anything between Moscow and St. Petersburg or along the Golden Ring or anything else someone travelling between the two capitals may conveivably end up. |
Being able to constantly monitor the flow of e-mail is of key importance to a certain category of traveller. I belong to this type to. Thus each city listed in the "Between Moscow and St. Petersburg" project will have a full page dedicated to Internet cafes, Internet access cards, and related subject eg. cell phone coverage. Being now for most purposes a resident of the Tver region I will start with Tver.
KAPOSHVARA SQUARE
A real nice place on Kaposhvara (where streetcar tracks go in all four directions) is closed, as I recently learned. The only computer place in Tver where staff spoke English too. Sad.
INTERNET ROOM AT THE HERTZEN LIBRARY
In November
2004 I checked e-mail twice at the Hertzen Library, Tverskoy Prospekt 5,
opposite the Tver bank.
Their response to my question if they can serve English-speaking clients was plain NO. Do any of your machines have English interface? NO. Will you try to help? NO. I've been hearing lots of plain and simple NOs in my recent excursion to Tver. Sorry to say the Moscow economic boom has reached them. Too busy to be nice, and enough clients not to have to fight for each one. Yet to learn the sort of business behaviour you just practice no matter what.
INTERNET CARDS
If you have your laptop with you, get a Telenet card at Simeonovskaya 28, next door to the Zarya hotel. The simple and straight-forward to use BUT HARD TO FIND and I'm thus advising you just go straight to Telenet's central office.
The card is in Russian BUT you only need to know the dial-up number, which is 77-66-02, and remember to put P in front of the number in your dialer to make your computer dial pulse as opposed to tone. I've encountered a couple of cases when computers set up for civilized placed refused to dial pulse no matter what but chances are 90% in your favour. Scratch off the protective layer. The first six numbers are your login, and the last three are your password. Good luck. If your Tver trip is of critical importance and finances allow such an extravagance, consider hiring me to look after all these little details.
TELEPHONE CABLES AND ADAPTORS
Remember to get a telephone cable. If buying one get the two-wire cable. Ideally you'll need one of these adaptors but you can just cut off one of the ends, expose wires (can be neatly done with by burning insulation with a lighter) and wrapping exposed wires against two prongs of Russian-style telephone jack. Only two of the four are active and you find which one by trying. These adaptors are sold all over the place in Moscow but I spent about an hour in Tver looking. Found one near Mir Electronniki, Tverskoy Prospekt 9.
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An adaptor to
plug into Russian style telephone outlets still common outside of
Moscow. If you are lucky western-style cable will fit in. In some cases
you'll have to wiggle it. If that doesn't help, or if you don't have the
adaptor, just expose wires of the telephone cable and wrap them around
two of these throngs. If that doesn't work with the first pair, try
another one etc. 
That's the kind
of cable you need to have on you. CHECKING E-MAIL VIA THE CELLULAR
Doable, especially if your cell phone offers the GPRS option. I don't know how to set it up but can refer you to someone who does. Makes sense only for those who need to stay in touch no matter what.
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As a paid service I can monitor your e-mails, respond intelligently in a proper secretarial manner, and alert you of particularly important or urgent ones. |
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