Places
Lopan River
Centre
The Lopan is the axis of the old town. The saying about Kharkiv, Lopan and Netecha holds the city’s river lore.
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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топонимбез даты · Центр
WHERE DID NETECH GO?
"Burst if you will, Kharkiv doesn't flow"—one of our old local sayings. It bundles the names of rivers in the city center: Kharkiv, Lopan, and Netech. The first two still exist, but where did the third…
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топонимXVIII век · Центр
TWO CENTURIES IN ONE SPOT
Visitors to the new glass-walled café on Poetry Square little guess whose wall they lean against. It is the oldest building in the city, second in age perhaps only to the Intercession Church…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
THE GENTLEMAN AND THE DOG
Pyotr Petrovich Gulak-Artemovsky was a well-known writer of his day. He translated from Polish and French and wrote lyric poetry, but his original fables in…
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байкабез даты · Центр
STRONG IN SPIRIT
Strange but true: Kharkiv butchers habitually slaughtered and cut up cattle right at their market stalls, tossing the offal… under the counter. Small wonder then…
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топонимбез даты · Центр
"BRIDGE" TAX
Carrying out the emperor's order to pull Kharkiv from the mud, Kokoshkin set about repairing sidewalks and paving streets. He decided to cobble them every summer without pause—not only central ones but…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
AMID THE SWAMPS
"Amid vast steppes, in many places still virgin, untouched by the plow and silvered with feather grass, in a purely agricultural province without industry and thinly settled, when…
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топонимбез даты · Холодная Гора
FISTFIGHTS
With little else for amusement, fistfights were a common pleasure for Kharkiv townsfolk. Beyond Mariinsky Bridge on the Netech ice, boys gathered in clusters and, as if warming themselves in…
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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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топонимначало XX века · Центр
UNDERGROUND KHARKIV
In 1913 in the courtyard of the Commercial Club on Rymarska Street (now the regional philharmonic) one could watch a curious spectacle. A group of people followed the actions of a man with a detached air…
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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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топонимбез даты · Центр
I SAW KHARKIV
Soon after the liberation, the city was visited by the famous writer Alexei Tolstoy. In his diary he wrote: “I cross the Lopan River on a wooden bridge, built where the blown-up one stood, and climb up a high, wide…”
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
GADA STREET
Near the confluence of three rivers — Kharkiv, Lopan, and Netech — lay the main fish market, offering not only local catch but also imported goods. Hence the central Podil Street, like the local squa…”
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