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Thermometer near the "Sovetskaya" metro station. Along with "Steklyashka" (glassy, an exit from the "University" station), is kharkovites' favourite meeting place.
rating: almost good [5] | Sumskaya str.
rating: excellent [3] | Shevchenko monument being repaired.
rating: excellent [1] | Shevchenko from behind. |
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| Main alley of the Shevchenko gardens. A big football. | Fountain and alley in Shevchenko gardens.
rating: excellent [1] | Cascade.
rating: excellent [1] | Flowers in front of the cascade. |
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The renovated "Crystal" cafe in Shevchenko gardens.
rating: excellent [2] | Fountain behind the Mirror stream. | Constitution square and the monument called "the four carrying a refrigirator" by locals (or just "refrigirator").
rating: excellent [1] | The right wing of the opera theatre. |
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| A square in front of the opera theatre. | Bank "Factorial", a building of glass and concrete, sticked somehow between two old blocks of the Opera side street. | Shevchenko gardens, near the opera. | The Mirror stream, a view from behind. Here you can see children swimming in the fountain. It was hot that day.
rating: excellent [2] |
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| Carting place on the Liberty square. University is on the left, Lenin monument is in the center. | Bridge going from the "Locomotiv" sports complex towards the city center. | An old "Volga" car with the city council on background. Shot from the beginning of Korolenko street.
rating: excellent [3] | City council.
rating: excellent [1] |
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| Puskinskaya str. reinnovated. In the winter they removed all the trees from it, and in the building where the central self-sevice store was nowdays there is the "Antoshka" childrens' supermarket. | Regional taxes police building near the "Architector Beketov" metro. You can see several guys here dragging some cable.
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rating: almost excellent [2] | The new restaurant named "Pushka" on Puskinskaya str. across the street from Skripnik monument. |
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| Skripnik monument. | Poetry square, Pushkin monument. | The monument devoted to all who died fighting the crime. It's placed in the park near the police cultural center on Sovnarkomovskaya str. | Lovers monument near "Architector Beketov" metro and "McDonald's". A new one.
rating: excellent [1] |
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Russian Federation consulate on Olminskogo str.
rating: more than good [19] | A small store. | Entrance to the polytechnical university.
rating: almost excellent [2] | Alley and the study complex number 1.
rating: excellent [3] |
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Fence of the polytechnical university.
1 comment(s) | Another entrance to the polytechnical university. | The new building of the university of arts. | Reporters on the street taking an interview with a guy. In front of the "ATN" (Kharkov news) office on Petrovskogo str. |
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| One of the streets between Pushkinskaya and Sumskaya. | Korolenko str. | My home school number 30. Krasnoshkolnaya embankment.
rating: excellent [2] | School number 30. The front view. |
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The side street where the "1000 small things" shop is situated. Dunno how it's called.
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rating: excellent [2] | The liberator soldier monument on 23th august str.
rating: excellent [2] | Pioneers palace in Saltovka district. The strange construction is the observatory from which once we were watching the Hale-Bopp comet.
rating: excellent [1] | Just tram ways.
rating: excellent [2] |
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Kharkov bridge.
rating: excellent [2] | Building with an arc on Krasnoshkolnaya embankment.
rating: excellent [1] | Rudnev monument on the sqare called the same way.
rating: almost good [2] | Shop of a very funny shoes-maker. It's called "At Illich" and very frequently is painted by its owner with various funny stuff and inscriptions, just like this one. It says "Gimme your shoes! For repair".
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rating: excellent [2] |
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Monument devoted to the 12th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine. There are a little girl in the bottom and a hawk in the top of it.
rating: excellent [1] | The girl symbolizing Ukraine.
rating: excellent [1] | An upside view.
rating: almost excellent [3] | That's how the monument looks from behind. For some reason it looks like the 3rd raich.. |
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| The independence monument and flowers. | Flowers and the general view of the monument. | Blocks along the Gagarina avenue, near Odesskaya str.
rating: excellent [2] | Zernovaya str, one of blocks.
rating: excellent [1] |
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In this yard on Zernovaya str. I spent my childhood. This place was the whole word for me formerly.
rating: excellent [2] | Funny installation on the wall of the "Irish pub" place on Petrovskogo str. The inscription says "I don't drink" :)
1 comment(s) | Irish pub: interior look.
rating: almost excellent [2] | The bar counter of the "Irish pub".
rating: excellent [1] |
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| A great surprise. Among various beer emblems collection of which was glued to the wall in "Irish pub" I found Romanian "Ursus". | Apples at my friend's village house in the Kharkov area.
rating: excellent [1] | Grass after rain.
rating: excellent [1] | Flowers. |
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Elements of the interior of the place called "Koniki" (small horses) on Sumskaya street. There under the ceiling you can see a lot of various stuff, like pitchforks, irons and rakes. The wheel is rotating and the stuff is moving up and down. Nice.
rating: excellent [1] | "Koniki": inside look. | The greatest element: a winged axe. | Looks like one moment and it'll fly. |
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| Axe. | Kind inscriptions in Kharkov buses. This one asks passagers to eat sunflower seeds among with rinds.
rating: excellent [1] | Another kind inscription. "There are no HERE and THERE stops on the route".
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