Tourist Trips in Chernobyl to the Exclusion Zone have become commonplace, and Chernobyl itself is a national landmark. The first visitors, whose arrival was not related to any professional activities, appeared already in the late 1980s. In the early ...

This Chernobyl Museum is located in Kyiv. The old fire station building, built in the early 20th century, looks like a fortress with thick walls and a tower. In 1992, at the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a museum was opened here ded ...

The word “stalkers” was first heard in the distant 1970s, in the Strugatsky brothers’ novel “Roadside Picnic”. A little later, based on this book and the script by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the film “Stalker” was made. The plot of t ...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Speaking of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, it is impossible to ignore another artifact generated by it, in a certain sense: the cult game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It influenced many of today’s stalkers who went to Pripyat for the first time, r ...

The film Stalker  by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986), based on the story “Roadside Picnic” by the Strugatsky brothers, was immediately a cult favorite, but, although not officially banned, it was not shown in the central cinemas, ...

The rich Ukrainian chernozem (black soil) is ideal for growing grain crops, so the national cuisine has long been famous for its delicious pastries. However, Ukrainian Bread or Kyiv Bread holds a special place. A round loaf of black bread is the symb ...

Salo is what solid animal fat is called in Ukrainian and Russian. It develops as a result of over feeding. The most commonly eaten is pork salo, whether fresh, salted, smoked (as bacon), melted (“smalets”), braised, or fried (cracklings). Salo is ...

Varenyky, along with borsch, is the most popular Ukrainian national dish. These are small round or triangular flour dumplings filled with meat, vegetables, mushrooms, berries, or cottage cheese. They are served in almost any Ukrainian restaurant, sol ...

In Spain, it’s gazpacho; in France, bouillon; in Ukraine, borsch. King Henry IV of France said that his goal was to create such a rich country that there was a chicken in the pot of every Frenchman. In Ukraine, borsch was long considered such an eq ...

The Soviet motorist, even if he had saved up money, didn’t have much of a choice: Volga, Zhiguli (Lada), Moskvich, and Zaporozhets. If the owner of a Volga was rightfully considered a rich man, and Moskvich or Zhiguli owners were well-to-do, well, ...

Protasiv Yar is an historic area located in Solomenskyi and partly in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv. It stretches down the southeastern slope of mount Batyi. The unique ski resort with 0.8 km of slopes available for skiing and snowboarding opened ...

Dynamo stadium was built in 1934-36 (architects V. Osmak and V. Bespalov) on the site of the former Chateau de Fleur Park and athletics track. The main entrance designed as a concave colonnade flanked by two pillars (architect N. Manucharova and V. P ...