Spring Photos, Part 2.

[MattSh]

Dormition Cathedral, Kiev Pechersk Lavra, UNESCO World Heritage Site.



More Lavra







Kiev Panoramas, from Slavy "Glory" Park.



From left: Golden Domes of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the Holodomor Memorial, and the Monument to the Heroes of World War II.

From the same point in the park, looking toward the "Left Bank".



Taras Shevchenko University, Main Building.



"Inside Chernobyl" photo exhibit, Taras Shevchenko Park, Kiev.



"Our plant, which produces nothing, nevertheless remains a nuclear object. And this demands that people constantly be there maintaining the safe situation that now exists."

[Celebration]

1. okay, these are nice!

And I predict I never see them in person, so thanks!

As for Chernoble, I am wondering if the people "maintaining the safe situation that now exists" are subject to high amounts of radiation, just by virtue of being at the site? Or is this propaganda of some kind?

[MattSh]

4. I think I can safely say...

There's propaganda going both ways.

Kiev is about 65 miles from Chernobyl, so I looked into this issue quite extensively before moving here. My wife has lived here her whole life and our son was born here in Kiev. Wikipedia has what I think is a well balanced look at Chernobyl and the disaster.

Enough said, since this is the "photography group".

[bluedigger]

2. Those are nice, Matt!

I, too, doubt I will ever get there in person! I was in the army in Germany when Chernobyl melted down. I well remember reading "The Stars and Stripes" every day for about a month, and watching the map of the radiation bloom creep closer and closer. I think it got to within about 500 miles when they stopped covering the story...:scared:

[Mira]

3. I had missed number 1 in the series, and looked it up (or down as it were)

These are very wondrous and informative and "alien" looking, even to me, a European immigrant.
Chernobyl worries me, I played backgammon on line quite a bit with a person stationed there, and he said things are in deplorable condition, and that the radiation is leaking out in places that need new concrete.
???
Beautiful photos and I am so glad I got to see them.