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Outside all big cities there is usually so called green belt consisting of woods and forests.
There is such a green belt in Luhansk too.
It is called Ostraya Mogila state reserve or a forest-park as we call it.
Its total area is 86 hectar.
It contains lots of woods, different ravines, streams and forest glades nice for a picnic or a barbeque.
This park attracts lots of residents of the city who prefer this area to others and have a good time here. It's a pity many visitors behave like savages leaving lots of litter after their stay in the woods...Location: southern part of Luhansk, Ostraya Mogila, Medical Compound on the way to the airport to the right (tram #6, buses # 152, 187, 197, 170, 121, 138, 151). Leave a Comment
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 Tarass Chevtchenko by Klod5
De vivre en Ukraine ou ailleurs.
Qu'on m'oublie ou qu'on se souvienne
De moi dans ces neiges lointaines
Combien cela peut m'être égal !
J'ai dû grandir, esclave, à l'étranger
Et sans être pleuré des mien
Esclave en pleurant je mourrai
En emportant tout avec moi,
Ne laissant pas la moindre trace
En ce glorieux pays d'Ukraine
Le nôtre — et qui n'est plus à nous.
Le père en parlant à son fils
Ne dira pas : " Prions pour lui,
Fils, car c'est pour l'Ukraine
Qu'il fut torturé autrefois ".
Cela m'est égal si plus tard
Ce fils prie pour moi ou non,
Mais ce qui ne m'est pas égal
C'est de voir l'ennemi perfide
Assoupir l'Ukraine et la réveiller
Dépouillée, au milieu des flammes.
Oh ! Voilà ce qui ne m'est pas égal !
1847
Traduit par Kaléna Uhryn
Première parution : Bulletin Franco - Ukrainien. N° 18-19, mars 1964.
" Que je vive — ou ne vive — en Ukraine ;
Qu'un ami — de mes pleurs — se souvienne,
Ou m'oublie — étranger — en ce val :
Cela m'est bien égal !...
Loin des miens — et bien loin — de l'Ukraine,
Loin de tout — que je meure — à la peine,
Qu'au tombeau — soit mon rêve — et son mal :
Cela m'est bien égal !...
Sans laisser — une trace — en Ukraine,
(O pays — glorieux — sous la chaîne !)
Qu'en exil — mes sanglots — ne s'exhalent :
Cela m'est bien égal !...
Mais qu'un jour — je la voie — cette Ukraine,
Assoupie — par la Ruse — et la Haine,
Tout à coup — dans le feu — mis à mal !...
Que j'entende — et ses cris — et son râle !
Cela ne m'est égal, cela ne m'est égal !
Hélas ! Cela ne m'est égal !... ".
Traduit par Mme la Princesse de Tokary et M. Charles Tillac
Première parution : Roger Tisserand. La vie d'un peuple. L'Ukraine. Librairie orientale et américaine. G.-P. Maisonneuve. 3, rue du Sabot. Paris, 1933. Leave a Comment
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Places I've been that you might miss: Gurzuf, Bakhchiseray, Sudak, Kaniv. Basically when you get out of the four main centres for tourists - Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv and the Bol'shaya Yalta area of Crimea - you'll be the only tourist around and enjoy the freedom that gives you. Anywhere on the steppe around the Dnipro would give you a taste of the rich traditions of poor people in rural areas, and the landscape is very photogenic. Same goes for the Carpathian mountains. Leave a Comment
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 Ukraine old banknotes by catnl
There are bills for 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 Hryvnias.
Coins are called 'kopiyka' for 1, 2 ,5 10, 25, and 50 kopiykas. (1 kopiyka is equal to 1/100 of Hryvnia.)
U can take US dollars or Euros with u.
The last time in Febr.2002 Euros already were accepted.
In 2000 I took traveler cheques with me to Ukraine. It was very hard to cash in. I walked for 2 hours at Lviv to change those cheques into US $, 4 banks i visited refused to change.Its better to take cash with you in US $ or DM. with which you can pay almost everywhere.
Sometimes you get more grivna for your dollars exchanging at marketplaces or at shops than at the banks or at a hotel.
What amazed me is, that almost nowhere you can buy postcards to send or to take home. Only in the big cities like Lviv and Kiev; they had many at the postoffices and in some special shops. Leave a Comment
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CHERNIVTSY, capital of the Bukovina, a little in the shadow of L'viv, an interesting multicultural mix in a frame reminding of a Vienna in a nutshell. See also my Chernivtsy page.
KAMENETS-PODILSKI, maybe one of the most interesting sights in the whole country, a great fortified city with Polish, Ukrainian, Armenian, Turkish and even Soviet traces.
BAKHTCHISSARAY on Crimea peninsula, the former capital of the Tatar khanate, nice palace of the khan and interesting cave cities (Chufut Kaleh for example) nearby in a nice landscape.
The CRIMEAN COAST outside of the immediate surroundings of Yalta with the interesting multicultural YEVPATORIA and the former Genuese forts along the eastern Crimean coast. Leave a Comment
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In my case I DID meet my future wife in Kiev, but she was decidedly BRITISH. In my travels around Ukraine A surprising number of young ladies offerred to 'marry me' and it wasnt always in jest. BUT, it isnt always the case. The one lady I really thought was wonderfull could have cared less. She got married, had children, got divorced and though miraculously we came in contact via VT recently(no kidding YAY VT!), she cant seem to manage to email with any regularity. Just my luck I guess and a vivid reminder that we are not all as charming as we think;-) Leave a Comment
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Dear Maciek,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, it is exactly what I was trying to say. I actually was trying to find it on the maps but could not because I was not translating to making it look like Wierchnoje Sinevidnoye. So you are saying take a train from Stryj to Mukaczewo to get to Synowodzko???? Are those trains run frequently? What elevation are we talking there? Beskidy Skolskie Range-how tall are those mountains?
You seem to have a great knowledge of that region. Are you in it?
Take care,
Beata
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