Places
Horse Market / Blahbaz
Centre
The Horse Market and Annunciation bazaar are living Kharkiv: traders’ cries, local slang, the Lopan bridge.
Tales
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слухXVIII век · Центр
"RAKLO," "VANKO," "ZHUZHKA," AND MORE
Kharkiv speech has its own distinctive words found nowhere else. Let us recall a term almost gone from our vocabulary, yet so colorful—the "r…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
OUT INTO THE STREET—AND NO STREET
Whole studies are devoted to Kharkiv toponymy, full of curious detail. Chebotarska, Kuznechna, Rymarska, Katsarska, Stolyarny and Slesarny lanes, the Honcharivka district—all evidently took their names…
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легендабез даты · Центр
IN A CORPSE'S EMBRACE
A laundress was returning home late with a basket of wash, accompanied by her twelve-year-old daughter. To shorten the way they crossed Myrrh-Bearers' cemetery (now on this…
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байкабез даты · Центр
CADRES DECIDE EVERYTHING
Sober and practical, S. Kokoshkin began cleaning up the city… starting with the police and bureaucracy. Then long troubling questions surfaced: where, for example, did a secretary get…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
SPRING SONG
In April 1889 a new patient arrived at Alexandrovskaya Hospital on Blagoveshchenskaya Street (now K. Marx Street)—an eighteen-year-old girl from Volhynia. The building had formerly housed the Institute for…
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слухначало XX века · Центр
STARS IN THE WINDOW
A unique building in Zaikovka—a Christian church adorned with six-pointed stars. Paint-factory owner Grigory Osipovich Goldberg built it at his own expense, whence the church…
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байканачало XX века · Центр
THE PEARL OF ZALOPAN
When you look from University Hill at the panorama of the Zalopan part of the city, what catches the eye first is the Annunciation Cathedral. It draws you with its scale and inventive architecture…
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анекдотначало XX века · Центр
LIKE IN GERMANY
The unkempt Blagoveshchensky Market long vexed city head A. K. Pogorelko, and he planned to set it in order. In Germany the mayor found a solution to the prob…
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анекдотВИШНЕВ1 УСМ1ШКИ · без даты · Центр
NEITHER DOWN NOR FEATHER
A stocky man in a quilted jacket and full hunting gear walked through Blagbaz: cartridge belt, shotgun over his shoulders. His high rubber boots were smeared with marsh mud. Finding the rows where p…
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байкабез даты · Центр
I GREW UP AT THE BIG MARKET...
He fell in love with that girl still at school. When after graduation she left for Moscow, the young man followed her. To gain a foothold in the capital he entered law school there. He wrote poetry for himself. Wh…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
PRELUDE TO NUREMBERG
A military bus with bars on the windows pulled up to the old opera house on Rymarska Street. The crowd parted to let it through to the service entrance. The guards opened the rear doors and, one after another…”
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байкабез даты · Центр
A STORY WITH COSTUME CHANGES
At the VKh newspaper office a certain Sh. served as literary editor — a talented poet and kind man, but a great lover of the “green serpent.” Hence his rather shabby appearance. Once the editor summoned him…”
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