The Oleshky Sands. Through Forests, Hills and Dunes

Do you want to escape the bustle of the transient world and be alone with nature? Tired of contemplating the urban grimaces of weary cities and longing for romance, relaxation, inspiration? This way, please!

The "Oleshky Sands" National Nature Park

Petrykivka and Its Wondrous Painting

I had heard many times about Petrykivka painting, but I had never happened to see the decorative folk drawing, neither at exhibitions of applied art nor in souvenir shops.

Shabo. The Centre of Wine Culture — a Song, a Fairy Tale

Some of Ukraine's wine-making estates that I have managed to visit are very worthy agrotechnical enterprises, and I greatly enjoyed the excursions to these amazing wineries. But after the incomparable excursion to the Shabo Centre of Wine Culture, I place this super-class wine-making complex first by many measures, and what I saw and remembered I will try to recount in my own words.

Shabo. The Centre of Wine Culture

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. The Akkerman Fortress

The Akkerman Fortress in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is the largest fortification structure in Eastern Europe and the oldest in Ukraine.

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. The Akkerman Fortress

Dnipro. A City Where Everything Is the Biggest and Best

Dnipro is a city of a million, an industrial, administrative, cultural, financial, scientific and political centre.

Dnipro. The Khrennikov Building (the "Ukraina" hotel). Korolenka Street, 2. An architectural landmark

Sloviansk. To Rise from the Ruins or to Keep Crumbling

Sloviansk — an industrial city, a railway hub, a resort — surprised me with the number of beautiful old buildings, both standing and already ruined beyond restoration.

Sloviansk. Donetsk region. The ruins of the fittings-and-insulator plant

Here It Is, Mykolaiv. Without Sweeteners or Adornments

I will say straight away that I liked Mykolaiv, but I will not sing its praises; I will describe my walk through the city on a sunny March day without embellishment.

The City Council

The Kytaihorod Temple Complex

In the centre of Ukraine, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, in the village of Kytaihorod, three monuments of history and architecture of national significance from the middle of the 18th century have survived to our days unchanged, all at once.

To Odesa With Love

Odesa. Marine Terminal

My Defilada through Lviv

Why do I keep coming back to Lviv? That question is impossible to answer, just as it is impossible to grasp the boundless.