The Metro Systems of the Soviet Union were elaborate and a source of pride for the now exanimate nation. Coming from a nation whose public transportation networks are so undeniably terrible, I am always impressed with Soviet metro systems as they are fast, efficient, inexpensive, and have competently served numerous cities for decades. The Kharkiv […]
Category Archives: Ukraine
(I will preface this by saying that if you’re offended that I am spelling Kyiv as “Kiev”, please pretend it is spelled the way you prefer throughout; I am spelling it the way most locals do and most travelers search for the name for the sake of this post alone. On the other hand, don’t […]
Zaporizhia, Zaporozhye, Zaporizhzhya. I typically spell cities on this site according to what people are searching for on Google, not how I would normally spell it on an everyday basis. As it turns out, no one is searching for Zaporizhia. Made that one easy… Zaporizhia is a city in the Zaporizhia Oblast in eastern Ukraine. With […]
Have you ever traveled somewhere and knew you would love the place even before arriving at the destination? Yea… that was Kharkiv (or Kharkov) for me. The Ukrainian city has been on my radar for some time and Katherine’s blog 8 Months in Ukraine never helped things. The city just always seemed a bit out […]
I knew very little about Dnipro (formerly known as Dnipropetrovsk) before heading there despite trying to actively seek information about the Ukrainian city. One thing I did know, however, was that the city was littered with abandoned buildings (in Russia and some of the CIS countries, they refer to urban exploration and the interest in […]
Dnipropetrovsk. Or is it Dnepropetrovsk? The locals spell it the latter. But in light of recent events, I feel ever-so-compelled to spell it with an ‘i’ and not an ‘e’. Having to give actual thought to something so seemingly petty really spotlights what has occurred in eastern Ukraine (okay, all of Ukraine) over the past few […]