I’ve spent most of my life in the city not far from Zatoka. There, in Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky, this resort village was not perceived as a place for recreation or entertainment. It was, and perhaps still is, a gold mine. Without any…
At the very edge of Ukraine, a couple of kilometers from the border with Romania, on the second highest mountain of the Bukovynian Carpathians, Tomnatyk – a station that was the eyes of the Soviet Union in all directions ceased…
A bowl full of dumplings from “Svoboda” Trains don’t go to Toretsk. You can get to Kostyantynivka, and then – about twenty minutes by bus or car. I was picked up by the head of the treatment facilities of the…
There was much more fun on the edge of the 80’s and 90’s of the last century. At first, it was under the very building, where mass meetings were held, enveloped in yellow-blue banners and slogans about independence. Very soon…
The ancient Greeks arranged sports tournaments here, and the Cossack ”seagulls” (kind of a boat) came here to rest during the marine campaigns to Constantinople and back, Ottoman and Russian imperial squadrons fought for this outpost, the battleship ”Potemkin” for…
“This is our traditions, you understand? Actually, this is our life, we don’t know how to do it the other way”, the 15-year-old boy named Ivan was driving his “fira”. This way Hutsuls name wagons with horses. This “fira” is…
Magic of Nelya Shtepa Vasyl Khomenko, head of the civic association “Sich”, the Union of Patriots of the Sloviansk Region and businessman himself says that he drives guests through the town free of charge in order for them to “take…
Summer on the seasides of the Odessa region is associated with crowds of tourists, a noise and constant attempts to cross the street and not to spoil the photos of another tourist. Developed tourism is something every citizen of the…
…”Didurnia?”, said a taxi driver through gritted teeth, having heard where to go. He says in the regional center this place in Kryvchyk is called “Didurnia”. He convinces, that it is “an asylum for the elderly people”. And no one…
This church, as the oldest religious building of Zakarpattia, belongs to the three most ancient masonry temples of the state. Interestingly enough, even for centuries that have passed since its building, it continues to reveal its secrets. This is the…