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Ghost town of Pripyat – 32 years after evacuation
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Entertainment, Photos, Travel
More than 30 years passed since the day of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and the “temporary evacuation” of the residents of the town of Pripyat located in the immediate vicinity of the station, about 150 km north of Kyiv.
Over the years, the streets of Pripyat turned into a real forest. It will be another 10 to 15 years and the buildings will collapse massively. Therefore, if you want to visit this unique place, then you should go in the near future because everything will only get worse. Photos by: Alexander Belenkiy.
explore the abandoned town of Pripyat
Tags: abandoned · Kiev oblast · Pripyat city
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Flight over the historical center of Kharkiv
No comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Cities, Travel, Video
Kharkiv, the second most populous city in Ukraine with a population of about 1.4 million people, is located in the north-eastern part of the country.
Despite the fact that the city was heavily damaged during the Second World War, a lot of interesting monuments of architecture were preserved.
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St. Lawrence’s Church in Zhovkva
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Regions, Travel
St. Lawrence’s Church is a monument of architecture and culture located in the town of Zhovkva in the Lviv region, 25 kilometers north of Lviv and 35 kilometers from the Ukrainian-Polish border.
The church was built in 1606-1618. The founder of Zhovkva, the Polish military leader Stanislaw Zolkiewski, his wife and son were buried here. Zhovkva on Google Maps. Photos by: Maxim Ritus.
Tags: church · Lviv oblast
Podillia is a historical and geographical region (Podillia Upland) located in the south-west of Ukraine, above the northern tributaries of the middle Dniester and the upper reaches of the Southern Buh.
The main cities of Podillia are Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia.
Tags: Khmelnitsky oblast · Vinnitsa oblast
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Church of the Ascension in Chortkiv
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Regions, Travel
Chortkiv is a town with a population of about 29,000 people located in the Ternopil region, 75 km south of Ternopil. There are several interesting monuments of architecture in this town.
One of them is the Church of the Ascension of the Lord situated near the railway station. The church was built in 1717, on the site of a burnt church founded in 1630. Ascension Church in Chortkiv on Google Maps. Photos by: Maxim Ritus.
Tags: church · Ternopil oblast
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Ball of Chrysanthemums in Feldman Ecopark near Kharkiv
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Entertainment, Photos
Feldman Ecopark is a regional landscape park with an area of 140.5 hectares located 15 km north of the center of Kharkiv. It is a favorite place for recreation of residents and visitors of the city.
Due to the fact that this is a charity project the entrance to the park is free, there are also regular free buses running between the park and the metro stations Derzhprom and Peremoga in Kharkiv. Photos by: gatta_bianka.
Tags: Kharkov city
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Defensive Church of Transfiguration in Zaluzhzhya
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Regions, Travel
Zaluzhzhya is a village with a population of about 1,200 people located in the Zbarazh district of the Ternopil region, 25 km to the north-east from Ternopil.
The main architectural attraction of Zaluzhzhya is Transfiguration Church – a defensive church built on the site of an earlier (now defunct) defensive monastery in 1600. Transfiguration Church in Zaluzhzhya on Google Maps. Photos by: Maxim Ritus.
Tags: church · Ternopil oblast
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Attractions of Ukrainian Sivershchyna
No comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Regions, Travel, Video
Sivershchyna, a historical region named after the Siverians, an East Slavic tribe, is located in northern Ukraine, eastern Belarus and southwestern Russia.
Here is a nice presentation of the Ukrainian part of Sivershchyna that includes the Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, and Kharkiv regions (turn the subtitles on).
Tags: Chernigov oblast · Kharkov oblast · Poltava oblast · Sumy oblast
May the coming year
Be full of wonderful events!
May everything be clear
Without sorrows and offence!
Happy New Year 2018!
Ivan Weltz. Ukrainian night, winter.
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Bridges over the Dnieper River in Kyiv
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Cities, Photos
Kyiv, the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the north of the central part of the country, on the banks of the Dnieper River.
In total, there are eight bridges across the Dnieper River in Kyiv. In addition, the city has a number of small bridges built over the tributaries of the Dnieper. The first floating bridge was constructed in 1115. Photos by: Sergey Hrynkevych.
The new and old Darnytskyi bridges.
Tags: Kiev city