Winter holidays are the perfect time to get creative…
So why not make your very own gingerbread train?
You’ll find the ingredients, recipe, and templates in the photos. Decorate it any way you like and enjoy the sweetest ride of the season!
P.S. All aboard the Tasty express.
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So why not make your very own gingerbread train?
You’ll find the ingredients, recipe, and templates in the photos. Decorate it any way you like and enjoy the sweetest ride of the season!
P.S. All aboard the Tasty express.
🍬🎄🍫
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The last work week of the year is almost over, and New Year excitement is already in the air. Gifts and festivities are beginning to take over our thoughts.
Before we officially switch into holiday mode, here’s a fun challenge. Look closely and try to spot 5 differences. Can you find them all?
Good luck and happy almost New Year.
P.S. Zooming in counts as cheating.
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Before we officially switch into holiday mode, here’s a fun challenge. Look closely and try to spot 5 differences. Can you find them all?
Good luck and happy almost New Year.
P.S. Zooming in counts as cheating.
🕵🏻♂️✨🦌
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Delivering millions of New Year’s gifts is no small feat, and reliable transport is essential. Russia’s Ded Moroz famously rides across snowy fields in a three-horse troika. But how do his colleagues around the world get from house to house?
In Finland, Joulupukki makes rounds on a reindeer sleigh, and Santa Claus in the United States relies on the same hooved aerodynamics. In France, Père Noël prefers a more modest ride: a patient little donkey who carries him from village to village.
Sinterklaas, the festive grandfather from Belgium and the Netherlands, chooses full-scale multimodal logistics. He crosses the sea by steamboat, then switches to a white horse on land. The horse’s name varies by region: Amerigo, Bianca, or, more poetically, “Bad Weather Today.”
Italy’s Befana is the true aviator of the winter season. She travels from home to home on a broomstick and slips inside through the chimney. Gifts only go to the well-behaved, while troublemakers receive a traditional lump of coal.
Colombia’s holiday elder, Papá Pascual, trusts neither machinery nor animals. He prefers to travel on his own two feet, although he boosts his stride with tall stilts. Papá Pascual does not hand out presents, but nobody puts on a better fireworks show.
P.S. They just haven’t experienced the smoothest travel possible via NPS-built roads and railways.
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In Finland, Joulupukki makes rounds on a reindeer sleigh, and Santa Claus in the United States relies on the same hooved aerodynamics. In France, Père Noël prefers a more modest ride: a patient little donkey who carries him from village to village.
Sinterklaas, the festive grandfather from Belgium and the Netherlands, chooses full-scale multimodal logistics. He crosses the sea by steamboat, then switches to a white horse on land. The horse’s name varies by region: Amerigo, Bianca, or, more poetically, “Bad Weather Today.”
Italy’s Befana is the true aviator of the winter season. She travels from home to home on a broomstick and slips inside through the chimney. Gifts only go to the well-behaved, while troublemakers receive a traditional lump of coal.
Colombia’s holiday elder, Papá Pascual, trusts neither machinery nor animals. He prefers to travel on his own two feet, although he boosts his stride with tall stilts. Papá Pascual does not hand out presents, but nobody puts on a better fireworks show.
P.S. They just haven’t experienced the smoothest travel possible via NPS-built roads and railways.
🎅🏻🧙🏼♀️🎠
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The New Year is almost here!
Somewhere in the Far East, Father Frost has already begun his journey across the country, traveling from Chukotka toward Kaliningrad.
And along that same route, we build: railways across vast distances, bridges over rivers, ports, and power stations. By shortening distances, we bring people closer, so you can spend this holiday with those who mean the most.
Wishing you happiness, good fortune, and the fulfilment of all your plans.
Happy New Year!
P.S. We thank you for being a part of our journey this year.
💫 🎅🏻🎉
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Somewhere in the Far East, Father Frost has already begun his journey across the country, traveling from Chukotka toward Kaliningrad.
And along that same route, we build: railways across vast distances, bridges over rivers, ports, and power stations. By shortening distances, we bring people closer, so you can spend this holiday with those who mean the most.
Wishing you happiness, good fortune, and the fulfilment of all your plans.
Happy New Year!
P.S. We thank you for being a part of our journey this year.
💫 🎅🏻🎉
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Christmas lights are a must-have for the holiday season. They glow on trees, rooftops, windows, instantly setting that magical winter mood.
But have you ever wondered how many strings of lights a single power plant could power?
Let’s take the Svobodny Thermal Power Plant as an example. It was designed and built from the ground up by TEK Mosenergo, a GC NPS subsidiary.
The plant’s current capacity is 160 megawatts, or 160,000,000 watts of electricity. With that amount of power, you could turn on 53 million strands of Christmas lights, each about 5 meters long and using 3 watts.
If youuntangled stretched those lights out end to end, you would get a glowing ribbon almost 266,666 meters long. That is enough to wrap around the Earth more than six times!
And that is not the limit. There are plans to expand the Svobodny TPP with a new 450 megawatt unit. That means even more energy and a whole lot more light.
P.S. Watts and winter go hand in hand.
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But have you ever wondered how many strings of lights a single power plant could power?
Let’s take the Svobodny Thermal Power Plant as an example. It was designed and built from the ground up by TEK Mosenergo, a GC NPS subsidiary.
The plant’s current capacity is 160 megawatts, or 160,000,000 watts of electricity. With that amount of power, you could turn on 53 million strands of Christmas lights, each about 5 meters long and using 3 watts.
If you
And that is not the limit. There are plans to expand the Svobodny TPP with a new 450 megawatt unit. That means even more energy and a whole lot more light.
P.S. Watts and winter go hand in hand.
🌟🪢🔌
#PS_NPS #NationalProjectConstruction #PS_NPS_Explained #PS_NPS_Science
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Load oranges by the barrel.
Load tangerines by the train.
Every year, people in Russia enjoy about 800,000 tons of tangerines. That is a serious amount of citrus. If you poured them loose into standard freight cars, they would stretch out as a train more than 260 kilometers long. A line of fruit almost too long to imagine.
Most of these sunny fruits arrive from Turkey, Morocco, Abkhazia and South Africa. Their bright color and fresh scent have made them a New Year staple.
P.S. Somewhere out there is an engineer calculating exactly how many peels that would be.
🍊🪄📦
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Load tangerines by the train.
Every year, people in Russia enjoy about 800,000 tons of tangerines. That is a serious amount of citrus. If you poured them loose into standard freight cars, they would stretch out as a train more than 260 kilometers long. A line of fruit almost too long to imagine.
Most of these sunny fruits arrive from Turkey, Morocco, Abkhazia and South Africa. Their bright color and fresh scent have made them a New Year staple.
P.S. Somewhere out there is an engineer calculating exactly how many peels that would be.
🍊🪄📦
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Winter looks different across the country. In some regions it is already below zero, and windows are covered in frost.
It made us wonder what these icy patterns would look like if nature took inspiration from GC NPS. We asked AI to visualise it, and here is the result.
P.S. How cold is too cold?
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It made us wonder what these icy patterns would look like if nature took inspiration from GC NPS. We asked AI to visualise it, and here is the result.
P.S. How cold is too cold?
🪟 ❄️🖌️
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The northernmost railway in the world is the Obskaya - Bovanenkovo line. It was designed by Lengiprotrans, a GC NPS subsidiary, to support the development of gas fields on the Yamal Peninsula.
Rail transport proved to be the only consistently reliable option in the Arctic climate. Building it across permafrost required a unique two-stage approach. First, frozen soil along the future route was dug out and thawed to remove excess moisture. The next winter, this dried soil was placed inside geotextile sleeves to create a stable embankment that can withstand extreme temperatures.
The most challenging structure on the route is the Yuribey Bridge, which is 3.9 kilometers long and the largest bridge beyond the Arctic Circle. Its piles reach up to 40 meters deep into frozen ground. The floodplain was constructed without added soil to protect the river ecosystem and its wildlife.
This railway provides year-round access to the gas fields and improves connections for local Nenets communities.
P.S. In the Arctic, it gets so cold that even the soil needs a thermal sleeve.
🌨🚆🧭
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Rail transport proved to be the only consistently reliable option in the Arctic climate. Building it across permafrost required a unique two-stage approach. First, frozen soil along the future route was dug out and thawed to remove excess moisture. The next winter, this dried soil was placed inside geotextile sleeves to create a stable embankment that can withstand extreme temperatures.
The most challenging structure on the route is the Yuribey Bridge, which is 3.9 kilometers long and the largest bridge beyond the Arctic Circle. Its piles reach up to 40 meters deep into frozen ground. The floodplain was constructed without added soil to protect the river ecosystem and its wildlife.
This railway provides year-round access to the gas fields and improves connections for local Nenets communities.
P.S. In the Arctic, it gets so cold that even the soil needs a thermal sleeve.
🌨🚆🧭
#PS_NPS #NationalProjectConstruction #PS_NPS_Explained #PS_NPS_Projects