Alluring Kharkiv – Page 73 – Our beloved city beckons and beckons us

16.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

"At Leikin's Pastry Shop"

Today in our book column: Nikolai Leikin’s humorous story “At the Pastry Shop” from the…

16.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

This small alley, which begins at Mala Honcharivska Street, 24 should lead to Poltavskyi Shliakh…

15.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

A British Mark V tank manufactured in 1918 is one of the most interesting exhibits…

15.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

As many people realize, at the beginning of the last century, there were neither televisions…

15.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

In the 1874 Kharkiv calendar, we discover a new side to the Alchevsky family. It…

15.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

The Kuskovo Estate is truly one of the jewels of the once-illustrious Sheremetev family. It…

15.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

Not everyone whose fate is tied to our city loved it. In 1890, the artist…

15.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Few people realize that skydiving—an extreme spectacle—was often performed right in the heart of urban…

15.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

If you open the 1915 Kharkiv guidebook, you’ll find that there was a mansion on…

13.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

The Governor’s Palace in Kharkiv was built between 1773 and 1777 to a design by…