Russia
| Ukraine 2014 | Budapest
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| Kharkiv Kiev Chernobyl Pervomaisk Zhytomyr Lviv |
Kharkiv
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| Svobody Square |
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| Svobody Square |
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| Lenin in Kharkiv |
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| Outside the History Museum |
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| Outside the History Museum |
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| Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet & nationalist. |
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| Assumption Cathedral tower |
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| Blahoveshchensky Cathedral |
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| Blahoveshchensky Cathedral |
Kiev
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| Friendship of Peoples Monument |
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| Friendship of Soviet Peoples |
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| Russian-Ukrainian Friendship |
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| Lenin's Plinth |
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| Chornobyl Museum painting |
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| A branch of the Roshen Empire |
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| Soviet WWII Memorial |
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| Soviet WWII Memorial |
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| Holodomor (Ukrainian famine) Memorial |
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| Pechersk Lavra Monastery |
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| Pechersk Lavra Monastery |
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| Pechersk Lavra Monastery |
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| Bell Tower at St Sophia's Cathedral |
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| St Sophia from Bell Tower |
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| St Sophia's interior |
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| St Michael's Golden Domed Monastery (rebuilt) From St Sophia's Bell Tower |
WWII Museum
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| WWII Memorial-Museum |
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| WWII Museum |
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| WWII Museum |
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| WWII Museum |
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| WWII Museum |
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| WWII Museum |
Maidan Area
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| Maidan area |
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| Maidan area |
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| Maidan area |
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| Maidan area |
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| Maidan area |
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| Maidan area |
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| Maidan area |
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| Maidan area: Relaying paving stones |
Chernobyl
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| Lenin at Chernobyl |
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| Our guide |
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| Odd equipment memorial (?) |
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| A small relic of the Soviet past |
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| Derelict Kindergarten |
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| Derelict Kindergarten |
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| Derelict Kindergarten |
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| Reactor 4 |
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| Reactor 4 |
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| Chernobyl disaster memorial |
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| The new sarcophagus To be rolled into place on completion |
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| Welcome to Pripyat |
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| There use to be a wide road here The trees are all post-accident |
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| Derelict High School |
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| Derelict High School |
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| Derelict High School |
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| Derelict High School |
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| Remains of school library |
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| Social center: Swimming pool |
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| Abandoned central square |
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| Abandoned, never opened Funfair |
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| Abandoned Funfair |
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| Abandoned dodgems |
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| Radiation check On exiting the inner exclusion zone |
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| "Cafe Tens" (?) Lunch in the outer exclusion area |
Pervomaisk
The Pervomaisk Missile Museum. A real Soviet-era ICBM base.
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| SS-24 Silo model and guide |
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| Launch Control Center model Note suspension and buffering within silo shaft |
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| Launch Control Center detail |
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| Silo Lid |
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| Silo (disabled and mostly filled up) |
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| Into the control silo... |
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| View down, of module suspended in silo |
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| Guide in control room |
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| Control panels |
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| Control panels |
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| Launch control console (one of two) |
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| Scotsman at launch controls |
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| Scotsman operates launch controls |
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| Crew room |
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| Scotsman in the silo crew room |
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| Exiting |
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| SS-18 "Satan" ICBM Never actually deployed at Pervomaisk |
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| SS-18 "Satan" ICBM |
Zhytomyr
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| Outside the Korolov Cosmonaut Museum |
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| Korolov Bust outside Cosmos Museum The Demi-God, The Chief Designer! |
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| Apollo-Soyuz (Replica) |
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| Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978) |
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| Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978) |
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| Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978) |
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| Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978) |
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| Soyuz 27 Re-entry Module (1978) |
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| Komsomolskaya Pravda April 12th 1961 |
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| Vosotok 1 (Replica) |
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| Soviet space suit |
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| Korolov Birthplace Museum |
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| 5 year old Sergei |
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| Korolov at 18 |
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| Korolov at 21 |
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| Korolov Bust on Korolov Square |
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| Lenin Plinth. Now commemorating the dead of the Kiev Maidan |
Lviv
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| 31 miles East of Lviv |
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| Occupation Museum |
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| Occupation Museum |
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| Occupation Museum |
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| Occupation Museum |
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| Armenian Cathedral |
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| Armenian Cathedral |
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| Gunpowder Tower (16th c) |
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| Old Walls (restored) |
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| Old Walls (restored) |
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| 17th c Bernadine Church |
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| 17th c Bernadine Church |
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| City Arsenal Museum |
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| City Arsenal Museum |
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| City Arsenal Museum |
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| View from City Hall Tower |
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| 54 miles East of Chop |
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| 22 miles East of Chop |
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| 8 miles East of Chop |
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Russia
| Budapest
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