Showing posts with the label Ukraine

The Building That Gave Its Residents Leukemia

Nov 1, 2023

Building number 7 on Gvardeytsiv Kantemirovtsiv street (now known as Mariyi Pryimachenko Street) in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, was the most recent...

The Space Museum Inside a Church

Oct 13, 2020

About 80 km outside of Kyiv, in the small Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, there is a large complex of museums dedicated to preser...

The Soledar Salt Mines

Jan 9, 2018

Some 250 million years ago, a part of Ukraine was under a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried up, it left behind a huge deposit of salt whic...

The Russian Woodpecker

Dec 29, 2017

Anyone who listened to shortwave radio or was a ham radio operator from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s will be familiar with a sharp, repet...

The Forgotten Soviet-Era Murals

Oct 25, 2017

Telling stories through mosaics and murals is a tradition that goes back to antique times. During the Soviet era, murals were used extensive...

Inkerman Cave Monastery of St. Clement

Jun 20, 2017

The Inkerman Monastery of St. Clement, located near the city of Inkerman at the mouth of the Black River, is built into the natural caves an...

The Deepest Metro Stations in The World

Mar 6, 2017

The average metro train doesn’t go beyond a few stories underground. But sometimes the geology and the geography of the region, such as the ...

Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size

Oct 21, 2016

From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...

The Catacombs of Odessa

Oct 6, 2016

Underneath the city of Odessa, in Ukraine, is an extensive network of tunnels believed to be the largest catacomb system in the world. Large...

Potemkin Stairs, Odessa

Aug 11, 2014

Made famous by Sergei Eisenstein’s epic movie Battleship Potemkin (1925), the Potemkin Stairs in Ukraine’s third largest city Odessa, is the...

Sivash Salt Lagoons in the Crimean Peninsula

Apr 11, 2014

The Crimean Peninsula lies between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, just south of the Ukrainian mainland, and is almost completely surroun...

7 Most Spectacular Spits on Earth

Jul 9, 2013

In geography, spit is a landform made by the deposition of sand by the movement of tides. Spits are narrow and elongated – one end is attach...

8 Deserts That Aren’t Really Deserts

Jul 14, 2012

Deserts take up nearly one-third of the Earth's land surface, yet only 41 countries in the world (one-fifth) are hosts to all the desert...

Kiev Fire Festival 2012

Jun 5, 2012

For the sixth year in a row, the Kiev International Fire Festival was held in the capital city of Kiev, Ukraine, on 25th-26th of May 2012. T...

Tunnel of Love in Klevan, Ukraine

Nov 18, 2011

This beautiful train tunnel of trees called the Tunnel of Love is located in Klevan, Ukraine. Nothing else is known about this place. Can an...