Yurivka, Varvarivka. People live in the backwaters too

It is traditionally held that travel means visiting popular tourist locations with famous landmarks. In connection with the latest events on a global scale, travelling pioneers devote themselves and their time to active recreation not in toxic zones, but in corners far from the crush of crowds. Journeys through the rural backcountry are an acquaintance with an unknown tourist space and with people who have changed the life of their region for the better. Arriving in the countryside, you see for yourself that everything depends on the activity of the local residents, and that it is not the place that graces a person, but the person the place. Hikes through the peripheries are special routes bound up with the natural surroundings, springs and ponds, single-storey buildings and places of worship, ethnographic museums and village clubs and, of course, sincere, hospitable people, always ready to give a traveller directions or to talk with him about everyday things.

Yurivka, Dnipropetrovsk region. The floodplain of the Mala Ternivka River

The Mills of the Dnipropetrovsk Region. Needed or Not?

The first steam mills appeared on the territory of Ukraine at the end of the 19th century. Most often they were built by foreign specialists using European technologies and were equipped with a steam boiler and machinery of foreign manufacture. The flour was produced of a finer grind than at water- and wind-powered structures. Merchants and landowners approached the construction of flour-milling enterprises not only from a practical point of view; they adorned the buildings with architectural decorative elements.

 

Pavlohrad. The former 4th-class mill with a production capacity of 625 thousand poods of finished output per year. Now an administrative and residential building

Yurivka, Shylivka, Myrne — from village to village

Kamianka, Yurivka, Shylivka, Hulive, Myrne, Vasylivka, Novooleksandrivka, Petrivske, Lyman — villages and hamlets of the Shylivka village council in the Dobropillia district of the Donetsk region. About Kamianka and the floodplain of the Byk river you can read here.