The Druzhba

1 November 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Tall ships, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  4 minutes

Druzhba in Hamburg, Germany, 1989 © Wolfgang Fricke/cc-by-sa-3.0

Druzhba in Hamburg, Germany, 1989 © Wolfgang Fricke/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Druzhba (English: Friendship) is a training ship of the Ukrainian Academy of Navigation. The ship, built in 1987, is one of the modern full-rigged ships in a series of sister ships designed by the Polish sailing ship designer Zygmunt Choreń and was built at the Polish Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk.   read more…

Derzhprom in Kharkiv

30 October 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  4 minutes

© Dmitry Glazunov/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Dmitry Glazunov/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Derzhprom building is an office building located on Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Built in the Constructivist style, it was the first modern skyscraper building in the Soviet Union upon its completion in 1928. Its name is an abbreviation of two words that, taken together, mean State Industry. In English the structure is known as the State Industry Building or the Palace of Industry.   read more…

Chicken Kiev

13 October 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

© flickr.com - Jason Lam/cc-by-sa-2.0

© flickr.com – Jason Lam/cc-by-sa-2.0

Chicken Kiev, also known as chicken à la Kyiv, is a dish made of chicken fillet pounded and rolled around cold butter, then coated with egg and bread crumbs, and either fried or baked. Since fillets are often referred to as suprêmes in professional cookery, the dish is also called “suprême de volaille à la Kiev”. Stuffed chicken breast is generally known in Russian and Ukrainian cuisines as côtelette de volaille. Though it has disputed origins, the dish is particularly popular in the post-Soviet states, as well as in several other countries of the former Eastern Bloc, and in the English-speaking world.   read more…

Central Universal Department Store Kyiv

1 February 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Shopping Reading Time:  5 minutes

© Nosy Mount/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Nosy Mount/cc-by-sa-3.0

Central Universal Department Store Kyiv (Ukrainian: TSUM Kyiv is Ukraine’s one and only department store of the classical format. It is located at the intersection of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Khreshchatyk streets in the heart of Kyiv. The department store’s building in the Art Deco style was erected from 1936 to 1939. From 2012 to 2016, the building was reconstructed while preserving the historical facade from 1939.   read more…

Babyn Yar

30 September 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941 © history.kby.kiev.ua - Johannes Hähle

Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941 © history.kby.kiev.ua – Johannes Hähle

Babiyn Yar (Ukrainian) or Babi Yar (Russian) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany‘s forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing some 33,771 Jews. Other victims of massacres at the site included Soviet prisoners of war, communists and Romani people. It is estimated that a total of between 100,000 and 150,000 people were murdered at Babi Yar during the German occupation.   read more…

Zaporizhzhia in southeast Ukraine

16 August 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Zaporizhzhia Musical and Drama Theatre © Nataliya Shestakova/cc-by-sa-4.0

Zaporizhzhia Musical and Drama Theatre © Nataliya Shestakova/cc-by-sa-4.0

Zaporizhzhia, until 1921 known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a population of 710,052 (2022 estimate).   read more…

Luhansk in Ukraine

8 August 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

Hotel Ukraine © Qypchak/cc-by-sa-3.0

Hotel Ukraine © Qypchak/cc-by-sa-3.0

Luhansk is a city in the Donbas region, eastern Ukraine. As of 2022, the population was estimated to be 397,677, making Luhansk the 12th-largest city in Ukraine.   read more…

Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa

2 August 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

© Konstantin Brizhnichenko/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Konstantin Brizhnichenko/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa is the Orthodox Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus and belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). It was severely damaged by a Russian missile attack on Odesa on July 23, 2023.   read more…

Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine

25 June 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Bakhmut College of Transport Infrastructure © Михайло Кулішов/cc-by-sa-4.0

Bakhmut College of Transport Infrastructure © Михайло Кулішов/cc-by-sa-4.0

Bakhmut is a city in eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Bakhmut Raion in Donetsk Oblast. It is located on the Bakhmutka River, about 55 miles (89 km) north of Donetsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Bakhmut was designated a city of regional significance until 2020, when the designation was abolished. In January 2022, it had an estimated population of 71,094.   read more…

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