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Sumska Street
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Sumska is Kharkiv’s parade street — theatre, evening walks, merchants and Soviet everyday life.
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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байкабез даты · Центр
THE TSAR AS MATCHMAKER
His Majesty danced the first figure of the mazurka with Miss Okonechnikova, whose beauty and wit impressed him. Approaching her father, a first-guild merchant, the sovereign said: "N…
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топонимбез даты · Центр
BY THE RULER
Kokoshkin's eye could not abide crooked lines, especially in the city layout. Nothing stopped him. He turned to the main streets, above all…
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слухбез даты · Центр
DUEL VICTIM
A duel was fought in the Osnovyansky woods between a school supervisor and a geography teacher. The cause was their employer's wife, head of a boarding house on Zmiyevskaya Street (now Prospekt G…
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топонимбез даты · Центр
BOOTS LIKE THESE!
On Sumska Street stood a wooden hut with three windows; on the gate hung a sign: "Cobbler sews boots. Puzankov." He was a sober, hardworking craftsman whose hands…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
ON THE LOVER'S TRAIL
In the town of Bakhmut (now Artemivsk) in Donetsk region lived a couple with four children—all sons. Their tutor was Kharkiv student Pavel Zavadsky. The mother, E. S. Garshina, fell in love with the student…
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топонимбез даты · Центр
OUT OF HIS ELEMENT
In a shop on Pavlov Square a company sat mocking engineer Redyugin. He constantly approached wealthy merchants with schemes—to start a factory or some enterprise.…
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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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байкабез даты · Центр
THE PUBLIC'S FAVORITE
Among the tenants of the multistory apartment house at Sumska 6 at the century's start stood out an impetuous young man who seemed not to live but to be intoxicated by life. He dressed with refined taste and had a solid…
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слухначало XX века · Центр
TRAM OR HORSE TRAM?
The early twentieth century. Rails were laid along Pushkinska, Sumska, and other main arteries. On some lines trams clanged; on others crept cars drawn by horse power in the literal…
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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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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
UNDER ANOTHER NAME
In the First World War A. Sharghei served at the front, then joined the White Army. He did not stay long and after Soviet power was established turned to peaceful work. Yet he constantly lived under the threat that White Guard…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
ONE MACHINE IS JUST A MACHINE...
“I remember Kharkiv in mid-December 1921 vividly. Vladimir Vladimirovich and I wandered through the winter city on the ice, talking as we walked about many things: streets, poets. I recall, at Univers…
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анекдотбез даты · Центр
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
V. Mayakovsky was active in what was then the capital of Ukraine, working as a screenwriter with the All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration (VUFKU), and therefore felt quite comfortable materially in our city.…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
TOWARD "TWO FIGHTERS"
An energetic young man entered the office of Commander V. K. Blücher, who was then quartered in Kharkiv. He asked to be given a military unit along with combat equipment at his disposal. The command…
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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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