The village Lazurne Kherson region

Lazurne (former name - "Sophia park", "Novooleksiyivka") is an urban village in Skadovsk district, Kherson region on the Black Sea, 28 km from the district center Skadovsk, 100 km from Kherson and 80 km from the nearest railway station Brylivka.

St. Sophia Cathedral

Among the landmarks, surviving in Eastern Europe, world-famous St. Sophia Cathedral is the oldest one. Artists who erected the cathedral and decorated its walls mosaics and frescoes used the techniques that were based on Byzantine traditions.

Mayday at Shulyavka

Shuliavka which is more than 100 years ago gave shelter NTUU "KPI", has a long and interesting history. It was first mentioned in chronicles in the twelfth century. It is not surprising, therefore, that it is associated with numerous Kiev stories and traditions.

Kyiv. Botanical Garden named after Fomin. Palm trees bloom in the winter.

You can verify this by visiting an excursion in Botanical Garden of Fomin, near the metro station "University". By the way, the old-timers remember: on the site of the present entrance to the subway was a delicate arch, and it was the main entrance to the University Botanical Garden. Now this green oasis occupies 22 hectares with its 17 greenhouses and 12 orangeries. His collection consists of 8 thousand plant species, 4 thousand among them - tropical and subtropical.

Museums in Kyiv. In a chimera house [st. Bankova, 10]

More than a century "House with Chimeras" attracts attention and excites the imagination of locals and visitors alike for its location, layout, decorations and even the number of floors: there are three of them if you look from Bankova  and six from the square Franko.

Unexplored Kyiv. Interesting places of the city

Kyiv is the ancient and mysterious city, it is covered with gray legends, has a unique aura. Kyiv is beautiful at any time. There are many amazing places that we do not notice in the daily hustle and bustle.

The oldest Kyiv Engineering Plant

In December 1881 Swiss businessman Jacob Grether, who lived in Kyiv, bought from the heirs of Colonel Leonovich the right to lifetime use four tithes (about 4.4 ha) state land on the western outskirts of Kyiv - Shulyavka.

State examination objects of technology in State Polytechnic Museum

Often from the media, we learn that such and such customs arrested the collection of cultural values, which would take over the state border of Ukraine. Here I must say that the cultural values ​​are not only written, visual, film, photo, sound things, but the so-called real.

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