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Kharkov is on the Russian border of the Ukraine. If you take the amount of cold and snow in Kiev and multiply it by four, you get a pretty good idea of the Kharkov is like.

This is the central town square of Kharkov, which is decorated with bright blue lights on every tree up and down the street. There is an ice skating rink in the middle, complete with hulking Soviet-throwback KGBesque security guard that came up to me and asked why I had such a large camera. I told him it was because I was an American capitalist and that's the way the cookie crumbled. He didn't know what I meant, and he simply pointed in the direction, indicating a hasty egress was my best course of action.

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This is the front door of the place I stayed in Kharkov. The apartment, up on the fourth floor, was quite nice, but the stairs were in *somewhat* of a state of disrepair. This was located in an older building just a few steps from the old KGB headquarters in Kharkov.

I had fun with the tone-mapping on this one, obviously... but I like the result.

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Kharkov has a Russian old world feeling about it, and nothing shows that better than the Blagovishensky Cathedral in the central part of the city. It's huge - enormously huge in an imposing Soviet state sanctioned religion kinda way. I did not get a chance to go inside of it, but next trip I will.

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I am wrote a little story called The Long Communist Trail of Ukraine at stuckincustoms.com/2007/04/20/the-communist-long-tail-of-...

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