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Shevchenko Garden
Centre
Shevchenko Garden is the green heart of the centre, where student and theatre tales cross.
Tales
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байкабез даты · Центр
FROM LIFE
In the mid-1850s the artist V. Mechnikov appeared in Kharkiv. He stopped here en route from St. Petersburg to his wealthy parents' estate in Kherson province…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
DEVOTEES OF KIF
"In the university garden, on the left of the main alley leading to Klochkovska Street, on the children's playground a private entrepreneur set up a ca…
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топонимбез даты · Центр
DAISY DAY
Once a year carriages and automobiles decorated with daisies rolled through Kharkiv's streets. The flower sold everywhere: Mykolaivska and Pavlovska squares, Sumska, Moskovska, Katerynoslavska…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
CITIZEN OF THE SKY
1920. A detachment of Red Army men stopped by the observatory in University Garden. They were met by the director—a young man. The commander asked to hear about astronomy and see the instruments. — Not here…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
KOBZAR ON HIGH
On March 24, 1935, a crowd gathered in University Garden from the Sumska side. Speeches were made, the orchestra played the "Internationale," and a combined choir with the Dumka chapel performed "Zapovit." The People's Commissar of Enlighten…
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