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Pirogovo – museum under open sky near Kiev.West Ukrainian houses were and are different from other areas. it was hard to build houses in Carpathian mountains, so every building was apart from each other. The roofs of houses were going almost to the ground (I guess because of rainy weather).
Pirogovo – museum under open sky near Kiev.Particular features of the houses' inside : bench along wall, big table around what family ate, icons covered with embroidered towels (“rushnyky”), spinning-wheel, big wood trunk and stove. Close to the ceiling different herbs hang.
Pirogovo – museum under open sky near Kiev.When son get married to girl, new family built another part of house for themselves, so house was divided on parts for every family, but at the same time the house was one. In some regions houses was divided on living part and part for home animals.
In soviet Union, the literature has a major importance, sustained by authors of genius: Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Pouchkine, Chédrin, to mention only them. In the theater of puppets one grants a lot of importance to the text, to the words. Few silences or verbal pauses in the spectacles and, often, the action, essential in this art of the movement, is relegated to the second plan. One says a lot and one makes very little. This pre-eminence of the text can appear to us strange, us, western formed at the school the video - clip, the special effects and the compact advertising message. During my journeys, I attended a corresponding spectacle all the same more to the western theatrical principles. This spectacle, title Genchick Brenchick Vierchka dva, was presented by the marvelous Theater of puppets of Kiev. The text was not anymore to the first plan and the action was synonymous of...
On April 26, 1986, reactor #4 at the Chornobyl* Atomic Energy Station in northern Ukraine exploded. As a result, an estimated 260 million curies of radiation were released. This is approximately 200 times more radiation than was released by the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Radiation from Chornobyl rained down on unsuspecting victims and their unborn children in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia contaminating some of the world's richest soil and condemning millions of people to future illnesses and death. Chornobyl's last operating reactor (#3) was officially shut down on December 15, 2000. The 15th anniversary of the disaster was April 26, 2001. The public needs to be informed that exposure to the radioactive fallout of Chornobyl continues to destroy lives. The total number of those affected may not be realized for at least another fifteen years. Today Ukraine is facing a health crisis. The...
Offices are located all around the city. The Central Post Office is at 22 Khreschatyk St. You can mail an overseas letter from all over Kiev - use one of the yellow or blue mail boxes. For more detailed information, call 228-0068.
Telephones - main lines in use : 9.45 million (April 1999) Telephones - mobile cellular : 236,000 (1998) Note : This number should have increased breathtakingly: in 2000 one saw very little portable, henceforth, in the vile, it is as in Europe of the west. Telephone system : general assessment : Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile cellular system domestic : at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone density is now rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved ; the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate international : two new domestic trunk lines are a part of the...
limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption; some synthetic drug production for export to the West ; limited government eradication program ; used as transshipment point for opiates and other illicit drugs from Africa, Latin America, and Turkey to Europe and Russia ; drug-related money laundering a minor, but growing, problem; lax anti-money-laundering regime
Ukraine and Romania have yet to resolve claims over Ukrainian-administered Zmiyinyy (Snake) Island and delimitation of Black Sea maritime boundary, despite 1997 bilateral treaty to find a solution in two years and numerous talks ; Russia and Ukraine have successfully delimited land boundary in 2001, but disagree on delimitation of maritime boundary in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea ; Moldovan difficulties with break-away Transnistria region inhibit establishment of a joint customs regime with Ukraine to curtail smuggling, arms transfers, and other illegal activities
total : 138 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 669,303 GRT/707,857 DWT ships by type : bulk 7, cargo 100, container 3, liquefied gas 2, passenger 11, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 12, railcar carrier 2 note : includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience : Cyprus 1, Greece 1, Panama 1, Russia 4, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1
Premier Palace Hotel Kiev
6 Reviews and 132 Opinions The hotel room is ok, but the Concierge service is superb, very helpful. And I must say the pool,...
George Lviv
23 Reviews and 66 Opinions for some reason i just saw my tip has gone anyway, i went to this hotel because my parents stayed...
Gostinny Dvor Luhansk
1 Review and 1 Opinions My American friend Jack stayed at this new hotel for several days and he was kind enough to take me...
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