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Ukraine 2014

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Kharkiv

Svobody Square

Svobody Square

Lenin in Kharkiv

Outside the History Museum

Outside the History Museum

Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet & nationalist.

Assumption Cathedral tower

Blahoveshchensky Cathedral

Blahoveshchensky Cathedral

Kiev

Friendship of Peoples Monument

Friendship of Soviet Peoples

Russian-Ukrainian Friendship

Lenin's Plinth

Chornobyl Museum painting

A branch of the Roshen Empire

Soviet WWII Memorial

Soviet WWII Memorial

Holodomor (Ukrainian famine) Memorial

Pechersk Lavra Monastery

Pechersk Lavra Monastery

Pechersk Lavra Monastery

Bell Tower at St Sophia's Cathedral

St Sophia from Bell Tower

St Sophia's interior

St Michael's Golden Domed Monastery (rebuilt) From St Sophia's Bell Tower

WWII Museum

WWII Memorial-Museum

WWII Museum

WWII Museum

WWII Museum

WWII Museum

WWII Museum

Maidan Area

Maidan area

Maidan area

Maidan area

Maidan area

Maidan area

Maidan area

Maidan area

Maidan area: Relaying paving stones

Chernobyl

Lenin at Chernobyl

Our guide

Odd equipment memorial (?)

A small relic of the Soviet past

Derelict Kindergarten

Derelict Kindergarten

Derelict Kindergarten

Reactor 4

Reactor 4

Chernobyl disaster memorial

The new sarcophagus To be rolled into place on completion

Welcome to Pripyat

There use to be a wide road here The trees are all post-accident

Derelict High School

Derelict High School

Derelict High School

Derelict High School

Remains of school library

Social center: Swimming pool

Abandoned central square

Abandoned, never opened Funfair

Abandoned Funfair

Abandoned dodgems

Radiation check On exiting the inner exclusion zone

"Cafe Tens" (?) Lunch in the outer exclusion area

Pervomaisk

SS-24 Silo model and guide

Launch Control Center model Note suspension and buffering within silo shaft

Launch Control Center detail

Silo Lid

Silo (disabled and mostly filled up)

Into the control silo...

View down, of module suspended in silo

Guide in control room

Control panels

Control panels

Launch control console (one of two)

Scotsman at launch controls

Scotsman operates launch controls

Crew room

Scotsman in the silo crew room

Exiting

SS-18 "Satan" ICBM Never actually deployed at Pervomaisk

SS-18 "Satan" ICBM

Zhytomyr

Outside the Korolov Cosmonaut Museum

Korolov Bust outside Cosmos Museum The Demi-God, The Chief Designer!

Apollo-Soyuz (Replica)

Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978)

Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978)

Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978)

Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978)

Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978)

Komsomolskaya Pravda April 12th 1961

Vosotok 1 (Replica)

Soviet space suit

Korolov Birthplace Museum

5 year old Sergei

Korolov at 18

Korolov at 21

Korolov Bust on Korolov Square

Lenin Plinth. Now commemorating the dead of the Kiev Maidan

Lviv

31 miles East of Lviv

Occupation Museum

Occupation Museum

Occupation Museum

Occupation Museum

Armenian Cathedral

Armenian Cathedral

Gunpowder Tower (16th c)

Old Walls (restored)

Old Walls (restored)

17th c Bernadine Church

17th c Bernadine Church

City Arsenal Museum

City Arsenal Museum

City Arsenal Museum

View from City Hall Tower

54 miles East of Chop

22 miles East of Chop

8 miles East of Chop

Russia

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