Showing posts with label UKRAINE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UKRAINE. Show all posts

Monday, August 16, 2010

The monument to the scuttled ships. Sebastopol. Thank you Svetlana !!!


This monument waas place in 1905 for the 50-year anniversary of the First Defense of Sevastopol.
From Wikipedia: The Siege of Sevastopol (sometimes rendered "Sebastopol") was a major siege during the Crimean War, lasting from September 1854 until September 1855. Leo Tolstoy's early book The Sebastopol Sketches (1855–56) detailed the siege in a mixture of reportage and short fiction.

Lviv. Thank you Svetlana !!.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Kerch. King´s Barrow. Ukranie. Thank you Svetlana !!!

Yalta. Livadia Palace-Museum. Thank you Svetlana!!


Livadia Palace is one of famous trade marks of Crimea. It has beautiful architecture and park, which is situated near palace. This palace was summer residence for russian emperor Alexander II and here Emperor Alexander III died.
In February 1945 the Yalta Conference took part in Livadia.

Demerdzhi. Ukraine. Thank you Svetlamna !!.

Here you can see one part of mountain-mass in Crimea called Demerdzhi. It is situated in south region of peninsula. The name "Demerdzhi" translated from Crimean Tatar language as "Blacksmith". Generally, this mountain-mass consist of conglomerates. As a result of constant weathering form mass fall little stones. this sound imitate hte work of Blacksmith.