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Showing posts with label UKRAINE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UKRAINE. Show all posts
November 27, 2019

3269 UKRAINE (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) - Tarkhankut Lighthouse

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The Tarkhankut Lighthouse is located in Crimea ( so to the Black Sea ) at the Tarkhankut Cape 5 km southwest of the resort village o...
October 17, 2017

3170 UKRAINE (Lviv) - Potocki Palace in Lviv

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The Potocki Palace in Lviv was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki , former Minister-President of Austria. It...
August 26, 2017

3135 UKRAINE (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) - Church of Saint Elijah in Yaremche

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Yaremche (Yaremcha until 2006) is a mountain resort, the most famous tourist center of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , located at the altitud...
March 4, 2017

ALBANIA / AUSTRIA / BELGIUM / BULGARIA / CROATIA / GERMANY / ITALY / ROMANIA / SLOVAKIA / SLOVENIA / SPAIN / UKRAINE - Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (UNESCO WHS)

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This transboundary property stretches over 12 European countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isol...
December 17, 2016

2796, 2906 UKRAINE - Traditional costume of Ukraine (2)

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2796 Posted on 04.10.2016, 17.12.2016 Generally, in Ukraine are recognized six ethnographic regions: Polesia , Carpathian region, ...
June 21, 2016

2632 UKRAINE - Vertep in Galicia

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2632 Ukrainian Christmas Vertep theater group in 1948, in village of Trostianets, Zboriv District, Ternopil Province Vertep is a por...
February 14, 2015

1460 UKRAINE - Old Hutsul woman

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Hutsuls are an ethno-cultural group, or rather an ethnic subgroup, who for centuries have inhabited the Carpathian mountains , mainly ...
December 20, 2014

1366 UKRAINE (City of Kiev) - A farmstead in Museum of Folk Architecture and Life from Pirogovo

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One of the most interesting landmarks of Kiev is the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life , located in Pyrohiv (Pirogov), originally a...
October 26, 2014

1319 UKRAINE (Donetsk Oblast) - Sviatohirsk Lavra

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Named also the Holy Mountains Lavra, due to the surrounding mountains, Sviatohirsk Lavra is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery (a...
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October 5, 2014

0199 UKRAINE (City of Kiev) - Paton Bridge

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I have at least four reasons to consider this postcard a special one. The first is that the sender (many thanks, Tamila) is born in the...
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August 19, 2014

1193 UKRAINE (Odessa Oblast) - Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral - part of Historic Center of the Port City of Odessa (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

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The first and foremost church in the city of Odessa , the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral (Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral), ...
May 30, 2014

1089 UKRAINE (Khmelnytskyi Oblast) - Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle

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Located on the Smotrych River , near to its flow into the Dniester , Kamyanets-Podilsky is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine , for m...
January 19, 2014

0972 UKRAINE (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) - Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora (UNESCO WHS)

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Chersonesus is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago, by settlers from Heraclea Pontica , on the shore of the...
January 8, 2014

0950-0952 UKRAINE (Volyn Oblast) - Lubart's Castle in Lutsk

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According to the legend, Lutsk , located on the Styr River , now in northwestern Ukraine , was founded in the 7th century, but first...
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August 16, 2013

0794 UKRAINE (City of Kiev) - Kiev: Saint Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (UNESCO WHS)

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Erected to rival Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople , the church with the same name in the capital of the Kievan Rus' , created...
August 4, 2013

0783 UKRAINE - Traditional costume of Ukraine (1)

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The array of the Ukrainian traditional clothing is characterized by wide regional and ethnic diversity, even adjacent villages displayi...
August 1, 2013

0777 UKRAINE (Chernivtsi Oblast) - Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (UNESCO WHS)

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At first glance, this building - erected by Austrians for the Orthodox Christians (mainly Romanians , but also Ukrainians and Ruthen...
June 1, 2013

0662 UKRAINE - A Cossack kobzar

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His name is Ostap Kindrachuk, was born in 1937 in Horodenka (a small town now in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , in western Ukraine ), and li...
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April 11, 2013

0595 UKRAINE (Odessa Oblast) - Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater - part of Historic Center of the Port City of Odessa (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

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Opera and Ballet Theater is one of the most famous edifices in Odessa, together with Potemkin Stairs. The first opera house, designed ...

UKRAINE (Odessa Oblast) - Historic Center of the Port City of Odessa (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

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On terraced hills that descends to a small harbor on the Black Sea , located at 30km north of the estuary of the Dniester river , there were...