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Discover Ukraine: unique places and sights of Ukraine. Articles about things and places you can see only in Ukraine
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Greek Square in Odessa
Greek Square is located in the very heart of Odessa and adjacent to Deribasovskaya Street. This square is the largest and central in the city. It has the shape of the oblong rectangle and is paved with the granite tile. There are several flower beds, two
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Dnieper Hydropower Plant in Zaporozhye
Dnieper hydropower plant is located in Zaporozhye. Its location is lower the flooded rapids of Dnieper River. The plant is a part of Ukrhydroenergo JSV, and on the basis of its energy there was the building of the industrial complex in Zaporozhye,
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7 myths about Chernobyl
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of the largest anthropogenic disasters in human history. It caused a lot of losses in different areas of life. There are still an incredible amount of myths and fantasies about the accident.Lets
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Preobrazhensky Bridges in Zaporozhye
Construction of new bridges in Zaporozhye across the Dnieper River began in 1949. The author of the projects of the bridges was the famous Moscow engineer B.N. Preobrazhensky, in whose honour the bridges were named.The project of the bridge across the
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Marble Cave in Crimea
Marble Cave is located seven kilometers from Alushta in Crimea, on the plateau of Chartyr Dag at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Marble Cave is formed of marble limestone. It had been creating for hundreds thousands years. This is a true
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Dnepropetrovsk International Airport
Dnepropetrovsk Airport is located 15 kilometers from the city center near the village “Starye Kodaki”. 27 December 1993 the Cabinet of Ministers granted it the status of the International Airport, now the airport is among the leading airports
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Freedom Square in Kharkov
Freedom Square in Kharkov is the central square of the city, the sixth-largest square in Europe and the twelfth in the world. Since its inception and until 1996 the square had the name of Dzerzhinsky, during the Great Patriotic War, in 1942 the German
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The Gun on Primorsky Boulevard
Monument “The Gun on Primorsky Boulevard” is dedicated to the successful repelling of an attack on Odessa during the Crimean War. The grand opening of the monument took place in 1904. In 1854, during the Crimean War, Odessa had been
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20 Inspiring Bird's Eye Views of Kiev
I’d like to tell you about the Mother Motherland, but rather about how I saw Kiev bird's eye view. There is a memorial complex in Kiev “National Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, it consists of various exposures, the
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Park of Glory (Pechersk) in Kiev
The Park of Eternal Glory, located in the Pechersk district of Kiev, more than 50 years ago was called the Anosov Garden. Now on its territory there is a memorial complex “Park of Eternal Glory to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War”, in
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