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Mohummad.Ali

Hi people!
i can't tell you how happy i am to see this website!
I am Ali Syed and I am an Engineering Student here in Germay.
I want to make a road trip with 4 friends to this small town of Вынгапуровский.
I speak good German, and english is my mother language, but i can't speak a single word of Russian!
And best of all, i want to drive to this place.
I need help, and i need it big!
First of all i need a decent map, in which there is most recent (just a relative term Smile

) road infrastructure, to be downloaded or bought (only English or German please!).
Secondly, is there anyone out there who thinks its too dangerous, or i shouldn't do it?
if yes then please speak out now!!! not after i am shot in the head! Very Happy

I mean, i met a couple of COUPLES here, and they told me that it was crazy to be driving to Russia. Its too dangerous, and that I am most probably going to be robbed if I am lucky!! else . . .
and by the way, Вынгапуровский is close to Surgut if you were wondering!
its a very small town of less than 10000 people!
but i really really want to visit this town!
please help me in any way you can!

thanks !
Ali M. Syed

p.s. I would of course need a car to continue. and i will have atleast 4 people and a lot of stuff. The european car-rentals do not allow there cars to pass poland (Warsaw to be precise!). So after warsaw i would need a car rental too, that would allow me to take the car to Вынгапуровский.
I have heard poeple traveling in foriegn number-plate cars land into more trouble than the people who are travelling in Russian number plate cars.
is it true???

p.s.2 I have a route planned through Yahoo Maps, from Mannheim, i.e. my location, to Moscow! this feature is pretty handy, it would be great if i could have such a nifty feature with a russian site, that would allow me to plan a road trip across russia!

p.s.3 I would really be grateful if you wrote me an email: Mohummad.Ali@gmail.com