Melody Jacob: Ukraine

Saturday, May 25

Kiev Day in Ukraine : День Києва 26 May 2019

Kyiv Day or officially the Day of Kyiv (Ukrainian: День Києва); is a holiday in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv usually celebrated in the last weekend of May. Kiev Day is not a public holiday. It falls on Sunday, 26 May 2019 and most businesses follow regular Sunday opening hours in Ukraine.

What Do People Do?

The city of Kiev celebrates Kiev Day by hosting activities and events such as:

Street and outdoor performances by various entertainers.

Cultural exhibitions.

Sporting activities such as marathons and charity runs.

Fashion shows.

Open-air music concerts.

Firework displays.

The Kiev Day celebrations take place on the Saturday and Sunday during the last weekend in May.

MISS AFRICA UKRAINE 2019 : BEAUTY PAGEANT : CONTESTANTS

Miss Africa Ukraine 2019 is a beauty pageant organization aimed at defining, promoting and developing the African beauty. Our mission is to unite Africans in Ukraine as well as present awards yearly to outstanding African students in different spheres of influence in Ukraine.

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Saturday, January 26

Парк развлечений «ЛАВИНА» Дніпро : Dnipro city

I like to document my travel experience and take pictures not just for the memories but to share on my website so you all can get to share the moment with me and get closer to my personal lifestyle. I traveled to Dnipro city (Днепропетровской) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast for a photo shoot and I also planned on catching up with friends I have not seen in a while.

I wanted to travel a day before the day I traveled but there were no taxi's. Usually I use the bla bla car app which is well known in Ukraine. I was almost scammed by a fake taxi driver on this app so I decided to travel the next day.

For those of you who do not know Dnipro city, it is located in Ukraine and it is Ukraine's fourth largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is 391 kilometers (243 mi), southeast of the capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central part of Ukraine.

This photo belongs to Lavina.

I traveled on a Sunday and on getting there, I had a very nice meal and after an hour we headed over to Lavina amusement park in Dnepr city. Lavina is an open air area with large greenery hills where the largest festivals, concerts, exhibitions, performances and other events regularly take place.

Every year, “Lavina” is visited by well-known dance and vocal groups, musicians, talented singers and artists with special programs and give a lot of positive emotions to visitors.

During the winter it is turned into a Ski resort, where you can enjoy snow skating, tubing and ice skating, all kinds of snow sports.

SKI SLOPE

This photo belongs to Lavina.

Winter Park in “Lavina” is a modern ski complex with well-groomed ski and tubing tracks up to 250 meters, and an ice rink. The territory of the park is well lit in the evening. In addition, the organization of night skating and other interesting events, which came to the mind of both regular visitors and new guests, has become a good tradition.

SNOW TUBING

This is my favorite snow winter sports because of how comfortable and easy it is.

This photo belongs to Lavina.

ICE PALACE

I have been trying to learn how to ice skate but the fear of falling won't let me. I finally got to practice even more, I got some tutorials from my friends and I did really well.

You can check out the pricing here. There are ski schools available and you can be taught how to perform a lot of winter sports.

Read the rules here for visiting the snow sports arena.

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Sunday, July 9

Sunbathing and swimming: Top 20 beach clubs and outdoor pools in Kharkiv (2017 prices)

"House Forester"

Located near the city, on the ring road in the Belgorod highway, not far from Feldman Ecopark. The territory has a 25-meter swimming pool, sun loungers, a summer bar. In addition, around the complex - a real picturesque forest, where you can walk for hours away from the city noise.

The price of pleasure: weekday - 150 UAH / day, Sat-Sun and holidays - 200 UAH / day. Children under 12 years - free of charge (accompanied by an adult). Subscription for the week: 900 USD / month

Hours: 10:00 - 20:00

Contacts: Kharkiv region, Dergachi district,. Cherkasy Lozovaya, 3 and Belgorod highway; 729-83-23, 050-301-38-97.

Arizona Beach club

This is not the bustling centre of the city and the distant green and Alexis meows. On its territory is a large-scale recreation centre Arizona Beach club. The club - children's and adult swimming pools, there is also access to the river. Active guests can play volleyball or tennis. One of the main highlights of the institutions - bar ... right in the pool!

The price of pleasure: weekdays - 150 UAH / day, weekend - 200 UAH / day, children up to 7 years - free of charge.

Hours aqua zones: from 10.00 till the last client.

Contact : ul. Sovkhoznaya, 3.st. m "August 23", "Alekseevskaya."; 788-16-18 (050) 401-66-80.

Aqua-Zone club "Misto"

In the entertainment centre "Misto" is a 25-meter pool, where you can not only swim but also to consult a qualified fitness trainer. By the way, the pool is filled with artesian water, purified quartz. There are also sun loungers and volleyball courts for recreation.

The price of pleasure: a weekday - 150 UAH / day, at the output - 200 UAH / day, children from one year - 100 UAH / day

Opening hours: 08:00 - 20:00

Contact: ul. Klochkovsky, 190-A; 758-17-04

Terrace beach club

Beach vacation right in the heart of Kharkiv? Easily. At the 6th floor of the hotel "Nemo" has an outdoor saltwater pool and whirlpool. For fans of the sunbathing platform is equipped with deck chairs and sofas. Bathing, you can enjoy a wonderful view of Kharkiv, because of Terrace beach club - an open platform.

The price of pleasure: a weekday - 300 UAH / day, at the output - 350 UAH / day, children under 5 free

Hours: from 8 to 21.

Contact: ul. Sumy, 35 (Shevchenko Gardens, in cascade); 700-33-99

Sports complex Tetra

Aqua yoga, aqua-pilates, aqua-therapy for pregnant and just being able to swim in the open air - is "Tetra" aqua-area sports complex. Here you can not only relax but also improve your fitness and health.

The price of pleasure: to get to the aqua-sports complex area, it is necessary to issue a club card. Its cost - from 3150 UAH (10 guest visits).

Hours: 9 to 21

Contact: ul. Sumi, 85; 766-02-02

"Arcade"

We go back to Alexis meows. On the territory of the complex "Arcade" - as much as five swimming pools (2 for children 3 adults), there is a sports equipment rental. In addition, as described Vgorode in "Arcadia" in the near future, there will be a new area with a huge swimming pool.

The price of pleasure: weekdays - 200 UAH / day, weekends and holidays - 250 UAH / day, children up to 7 years - free of charge, from 7 to 14 years - 150 UAH / day during the week, 200 USD / day on weekends.

Opening hours: 09:00 - 19:30

Contacts: Alexis meows, trans. Beech, 27; 720-05-20, 720-05-23

Marine Club

Swimming pool at Marine Club is small - about 12 meters, but it is possible to pass SPA treatments and relax on the sundeck. At the same veranda, by the way, there is free wi-fi, so you can combine business with pleasure and do not break away from the gadgets.

The price of pleasure: 60 UAH / 1.5 hours

Hours: 9:00 - 21:00.

Contact: ul. Lermontovskaya, 7, 25 714-25-

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Sunbathing and swimming: Top 20 beach clubs and outdoor pools in Kharkiv (2017 prices)

Sunday, June 11

National History Museum : Poltava Ukraine

Poltava Krichevsky Museums: It is one of the oldest museums of Ukraine that was founded in 1891. The museum is situated building of the former province government that had been built upon the project of the architect V. Krichevsky in 1903-1908. It was designed in the Ukrainian modern style that contains traditional ornaments in the front exterior decoration, that is why the museum building was indicated in the list of the architectural monuments of national value.

Location : ( 2 Konstitutsii Street, Zhovtneva Street, Poltava, Ukraine).

Poltava museum named after V. Krichevsky as significant scientific and cultural center, founded in 1891 on the initiative of famous scientist Professor Dokuchaev, who gave more than 4,000 soil samples, 500 rock samples, 862 herbarium sheets. Among the patrons and native of Poltava province Skarzhynska Catherine (1854-1932), which gave more than 20,000 exhibits and library. In the museum gift for years 1894-1913 gave valuable collection of Oriental antiquities Paul Bobrowski

Poltava, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine

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Thursday, June 8

POLTAVA CITY GUIDE :: WHERE TO STAY, WHAT TO SEE AND WHAT TO EAT

I have always wanted to tour the city of Poltava.
Poltava serves as a transit between Kharkov and Kiev, so while traveling I have always wondered what it will be like walking in the streets of this city.

So, finally I was able to visit the City for a tour, it was an amazing experience.

As you all know Ukraine is not an English speaking country so communication sometimes can gets really bad. In this city everyone wanted to understand and communicate with us, I felt at home even more relaxed asking questions than in Kharkov where every Ukrainian seemed to be sad and angry at themselves.

Poltava, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine

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Monday, February 27

GRANITE MOTHERLAND STATUE-MEMORIAL COMPLEX OF GLORY-KHARKOV, USSR

The feelings that comes along visiting the memorial Complex is so strong, Something just felt so calm in my spirit, lots of thoughts dancing around my soul. This is 3rd time I am visiting the memorial complex of glory but that same fresh feeling keeps coming each time I step into the that arena. It is such an honor for everyone who fought for freedom. This is sure a place to visit in Kharkov Ukraine.

The memorial complex of Glory is located in Lisopark, which during the war years became a place of mass executions of inhabitants, guerrillas and soldiers. One of its fields was a huge common grave – exactly at this place later was built The Memorial of Glory. Alley framed by two pylons is leading to the Motherland statue, and at her foot an eternal flame burns. Further, there are tables engraved with the names of people who rested there. In this place sounds the heartbeat of the people who fought for their land and their people to victory. On the Victory day here are coming thousands of Kharkovites, to lay flowers in memory of the victims.

The stately Glory Memorial was unveiled in the Forest Park in 1977. It immortalizes the undying exploits of the Soviet people fighting the Nazism (which is the ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party and Nazi Germany, as well as other far-right groups).

The Complex of Glory immortalized the immortal and unforgettable feat of Soviet citizens in the fight against the Nazi invaders. At this northern city limit the Nazis executed and shot tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers, partisans and underground fighters, prisoners of war and patriots, who refused to submit to the enemy.

During the Great Patriotic War the residents of Kharkov showed the enviable courage, bravery and heroism. They stoically fought against the oppression of the conquerors, together with other citizens of the former Soviet Union and gave their lives for the peaceful life of their descendants. In honor of these soldiers there were erected three steles with dropped down cast banners. On one stele there is the inscription, which is to remind present and future generations about the great feat of the Soviet people: "In the battles for Kharkov 186 306 Soviet soldiers died a hero’s death".

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Tuesday, February 21

MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS IN UKRAINE: ALEKSEY NIKOLAYEVICH BEKETOV

The well known Ukrainian architect, Ukrainian SSR's Honoured Artist, Aleksey Nikolayevich Beketov was born on 19 February (3 March) 1862, in Kharkov, in the family of Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov - the founder of physics and chemistry, the member of Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Father's brother Andrey was a scientist, too: he had become known as Darwinist botanist, he was a Corresponding Member and an Honourable Member of Petersburg Academy. Aleksey Nikolayevich passed his childhood in communication with the Mechnikovs and the Alchevskiys families.
Location : Kharkov
Country : Ukraine
Address : Davina 25, "Quiet’ Downtown.
Aleksey Nikolayevich received an excellent education. At the same time he attended M. D. Ivanova-Rayevskaya's Artist School and after that in Petersburg Arts Academy. His education was topped with the dissertation thesis completion, which in 1894 brought him the title of Architecture Academician.

Beketov died on 23 November 1941. He left us about one hundred various buildings, and one of the most magnificent of them is the building of Kharkov research institute of microbiology and immunology named after I. I. Mechnikov.
The first Beketov building, which decorated Kharkov, was the Commercial School. After this work, which brought success to the novice, the young architect constructed a whole series of bank buildings. The projects were ordered by the leaders of the roughly developing Kharkov business and industry -- today's buildings of the Automotive Technical School, The Houses of Techniques, the Puppet-Show and others.
According to the status of Petersburg's Academy of Arts, an architect with 3 years construction experience could choose an item and work on a project to receive the rank of Academician of Architecture. Beketov decided to take on the project of a public library with 1.5 million volumes, with reading halls, an art gallery, storehouse and numismatic hall. Beketov completed this grand work in only 9 months. In 1894 the Scientist Soviet gave him the rank of Academnician. The building of the library can be called a gift to Kharkov of "a perfect creation.

The creative works of Beketov were noticeable not only in Kharkov; his buildings also decorate Belgorod, Dnipropetrovsk, Simpheropol and other cities - but the most monumental buildings he built are in Kharkov. During his life he completed 64 different architecture projects and all of the buildings were individual masterpieces. Here, in his native city, this outstanding architect ended his life.
Buildings Created By Beketov1889 - Medical office (Poltavsky Shlyakh, 12)

Darvina (Darwin) Street was established in the mid-19th century and was initially called Sadovo-Kulikovska, as named after its landlords, the Kulikovskys, who owned vast lands in this area. When the massive construction started here, as the Technological Institute was being built, they sold most of their land to the city. In the early 20th century a range of mansions was built in the street, including the Governor’s Mansion and Governor’s Office.

The buildings in Darvina Street have been well preserved and are of special interest for those fond of old architecture.
Built in the style of Neorenaissance, 9, Darvina Steet is a former house of merchant Ryzhov (designed by V. Velichko, 1912). This is one of the few mansions of the city which preserved its initial outlook. During the early years of Soviet power, it housed the Extraordinary Commission for Fighting Counterrevolution, Speculations and Sabotage. Later it became home to the All-Ukrainian Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Since 1934 it has become the House of Architects.

Situated next to it is a former mansion of English Consul Charles Blacky, now housing the House of Artists (designed by V. Gaush, 1911).

13, Darvina Steet is a mansion previously owned by D. Alchevsky, biology professor of Kharkiv University. The designer (A. Beketov) described the style of the building as Mauritanian. It used to house the Society of Working Women Mutual Help, the first mixed gymnasium for boys and girls and now it is home to Ukrainian-British College.

Further on, the architectural complex of the street resembles that of a small European town. 21 and 23, Darvina St. were designed by A. Beketov in 1901–1903 in the style of Neorenaissance. A very interesting building designed in the style of Modern by V. Rzhepyshevsky for a stage director N. Sinelnikov was built in 1914. Close to it (31, Darvina St.) is the house designed by V. Velichko for his family. At the end of the street there is a mansion designed by A. Beketov in 1912 (37, Darvina St.). Besides A. Beketov, painters M. Pestrikov and N. Samokish used to live there at different times.

Buildings by Beketov.
1893 - Lenin House of Culture (Sovnarkomovskaya, 13)

1893 - Law Academy (Pushkinskaya, 77)

1896 - Secondary School N1 (Darwin, 1)

1896 - Arts Museum (Sovnarkomovskaya, 9)

1896 - "Znaniye" Society (Nezavisimosty pl.)

1896-1898 Autotransport Technical College (Nezavisimosty pl., 28)

1896-1899 - Technical House (Nezavisimosty pl., 26)

1899 - Medical Society (Olminskogo ul, 11)

1900 - Scientists' House (Sovnarkomovskaya, 10)

1891-1901 - Korolenko Library (Korolenko, 4)

1902 - Court Offices House (Rudneva pl.)

1906-1907 - Puppet Theatre (Nezavisimosty pl., 24)

1912 - Arts Museum (Sovnarkomovskaya, 11)

1913 - I. I. Mechnikov Institute (Pushkinskaya, 14)

1914-1915 - KhSKhM SKB (Pushkinskaya, 84)

1914-1916 - KhIMESKh (Artyoma, 44).

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Tuesday, February 14

MOST POPULAR CHURCHES/CATHEDRALS TO VISIT IN KHARKOV CITY, UKRAINE

POPULAR CHURCHES/CATHEDRALS IN KHARKOV CITY, UKRAINE

Hello, Beautiful people, How are you? How is the Sunday going?.

Guess what? I have a lot to show and tell you about Ukraine. This is something so interesting for me and can help any one who wants to visit Ukraine or Know more About Ukraine.

I visited the Most popular churches in cathedral in Ukraine Kharkov. What Interest me the most is not just how beautiful and well maintained these churches/cathedral are but how long they have been.

The oldest church is the Annunciation cathedral which was created with such a candy design that calls for easy attraction. Mironositskaya Church - Orthodox Church is also beautiful built with a modern standard, The white color makes it so noticeable and loud. Keep reading to know More.

Name :Annunciation Cathedral
Ukraine Translation: Благовещенский Кафедральный собор
Location : Kharkiv Ukraine.
Address: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, 61000
Phone: 057 712 4737

Architect: Mikhail Lovtsov

This cathedral is Situated at town's historical center, the grandiose Annunciation Cathedral - is one of the most beautiful Kharkiv churches - rivets attention by its original forms and uncommon striped patterns. Built in Russian and Byzantine style, it is recognized as unique architectural monument of the early 20th century and inevitably remains in the center of tourists' attention.

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Saturday, July 30

ZAPOROZHYE : FUN OR NOT?

This is not my 1st time visiting this city but I love sharing my pictures so just sit back and enjoy. As for whether the city is boring or not keep reading to know my opinion.

Zaporozhye or Zaporizhia, former Aleksandrovsk (before 1921), is a city and administrative centre of Zaporozhye region located in southeastern Ukraine. The city stands on the Dnieper River. It is an important railway hub and river port. There is an airport in the city. Zaporozhye stretches for several kilometres along the Dnieper River, with a green belt separating industrial and residential areas. Population - 762,400 (2014).Area code - +380 61; postal codes - 69000-69600. Local time in Zaporizhzhia (+2 UTC).

I enjoyed seeing my friends again, we went out to eat and I enjoyed walking around the city which is basically what I do when I visit any new city. One thing about this city I don't like is the restaurant timing which is not so flexible deep into the night, tho there were few mentioned but I expected more restaurants. I enjoyed my ride in an old UN-renovated park, the rides were few compared to other cities I visited already. Anyways just before I left I visited the Hotel “Four Points by Sheraton” which is now KHORTISA PALACE HOTEL. This hotel is located in the centre of Zaporozhye, on the intersection of Shevchenko Boulevard and the Embankment.