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The main alley of Shevchenko garden.
rating: excellent [1] | Freedom square. Europe's biggest square, 2nd place in the world.
rating: almost not bad [2] | The square. | Reparied front of the Gosprom building. A nice postcard-like photo. |
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| Gosprom with anniversary greetings banner. | Gosprom.
rating: excellent [1] | Another view.
rating: excellent [1] | Monument of the city founders. Actually, it's Harko cossack. The legend says he was the one who founded Kharkov. Monument by Zurab Tsereteli.
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| Harko. | Sumskaya street. A smart worker guy having rest. He's got a banner near him which says "Alexander. Want to get married". Dear ladies, if you like Alexander, please tell him (and the other girls) about the internet resource you came from. | Alley in Gorky park. | Squirrel. |
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A repaired building opposite to Shevchenko monument.
rating: excellent [2] | Fragment of the monument. Need to mention, our Shevchenko was the winner of the all-USSR competition of Shevchenko monuments that took place in 30s.
rating: excellent [1] | One of my favourite place, the Kaskad. I remember it from the early childhood. Unfortunatelly, till then about 15 years it didn't function, being almost destroyed. However, a couple of days before the festivities it was reparied and the water started to flow there again. | Kaskad is being prepaired to the launch. |
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| First streams of water. | Workers are cleaning out rests of beton out the Kaskad's stairs. | Water. | Water-cleaning Kaskad before the launch.
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| Kaskad's launch preparations. | One of Kharkov football teams. Here you can also see the "Aquarena" sports complex where Yana Klotchkova used to train. | Bursatsky spusk (slope).
rating: excellent [1] | New shop on Puskinskaya. Its name in Russian says "The leather island". Now see the English translation on the right. |
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| Monument of Kharkov's first governer, Evdokin Scherbinin. Not opened yet. | Schumacher. | Lenin avenue, repaired street next to the new "Botaniac garden" metro station.
rating: excellent [1] | Eggs, metro "Nauchnaya" area. |
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Road-transport college.
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