Places
Freedom Square
Centre
Freedom Square (formerly Dzerzhinsky) is a space of power and spectacle, next to Derzhprom and university buildings.
Tales
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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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топонимбез даты · Центр
NOW IT'S MY TURN
The early 1950s. Ostap Vyshnia came on assignment from Kyiv to Kharkiv as a correspondent for the newspaper "Radanska Ukraina"—as it was then officially called—to cover the regional exhibition of achievements…
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легендасоветский Харьков · Центр
NO SQUEAKING!
In March 1926 a telegram arrived at the building on Artem Street from Poltava region: "Kharkiv Narcompros We urgently ask you to relay to Kuryazh that we may soon additionally fund the sowing estimate General meeting…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
SUICIDE IN GOSPROM
Having landed in prison again, Mykola began to think how to escape. He inspected his cell and came up with a plan! At the first light he climbed into the chimney and, bracing with hands, feet, and back against the walls, st…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
WITHOUT NAMING SURNAMES
In the middle of the night writer V. Mysyk heard a knock. He opened the door. On the landing stood three men in NKVD uniforms—an officer and two soldiers. "Where is your neighbor?" the commander asked. "Which one?" "The one who lives above you." "I have no idea…
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топонимновейшее время · Центр
OPERATION "TRAP"
Having placed their headquarters in the building of the former Kharkiv Military District staff on Rudnev Square, the Hitlerites began looking for quarters for the commander of the 68th Infantry Division, General Georg von Braun. They settled on…
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топонимбез даты · Центр
ON ITS OWN GROUND
“I am now by the lake near Kharkiv, where we once used to swim. But I am not admiring the picturesque view; I look through binoculars, searching for the cursed enemy who bathed here for almost two years. He considered himself the master…”
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топонимбез даты · Центр
ACROSS THE ROAD
Poet M. Shapoval and the no less famous prose writer V. Dobrovolsky walked along Sumska one deep autumn day. Recall that this street divides two central districts — Dzerzhinsky and Kyivsky. In one of them…”
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