An appealing park
[September, 2011] This is a children’s park in Kiev. You can play with these statues made of small tiles which often are seen in typical Japanese public bath. On this Sunday, it was full of families…
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Discussion about the culture
[September, 2011] This photo was taken in a park in Kiev. According to the guide, this gathering is for discussing culture, not politics or economy. It seems a part of process for independent Ukraine after Soviet…
Blue sky and blue wall
[September, 2011] This is a photo of St Michel’s monastery in Kiev. It was founded early 12th century, but could not survive in the communist era, so it was rebuild in 1998. There were other churches…
The brothers from Macedonia
[September, 2011] This statue in Kiev is Macedonian brothers who taught Cyrillic language to Slavic people. According to the guide who took us around the city told us that these two were priests from the Orthodox…
Kiev is like USSR
[September, 2011] We went to Kiev in Ukraine for the first time. It is a beautiful city with the golden onion shaped domes with the very blue sky on the back ground. On the other hand,…
