Places
Mirror Stream
Centre
“Mirror Stream” is a favourite meeting place and postcard view — a sign of peace after ruin in city folklore.
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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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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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
FOUNTAIN
On Sumska Street, opposite the new opera house, stands a lacy gazebo with a fountain called the Mirror Stream. A structure unusual for Kharkiv’s architectural style — and indeed it was borrow…”
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анекдотбез даты · Центр
BEFORE EVERYONE’S EYES
In the very center of Kharkiv, near the later-demolished mansion of the theater institute on Sumska, next to the Mirror Stream, a multi-meter banner hung — announcing a new production of the Russian dra…”
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топонимXIX век · Центр
GIVE ME A WHITE MONKEY!
Academician B. I. Verkin sent off his students and colleagues with those words. It meant they were to discover something utterly unusual that had never existed before. Obviously they often succeeded, for…”
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