Crimea 2011 | North Caucasus
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| Odessa Kherson Sevastopol Yalta Balaklava Kerch |
Odessa
I passed through the fine port city of Odessa, en route to the Crimea.
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| The Orange Monument Commemorating a gift to the Tsar in 1800 |
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| Duke de Richelieu "Founder of Odessa" |
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| Catherine the Great Who decreed the city's creation. |
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| Lenin in Odessa |
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| A Bronze Chair In commemoration of "The 12 Chairs" |
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| Captured British Cannon From the Crimean War |
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| Potemkin Steps |
Kherson
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| Lenin in Kherson |
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| Kherson's port |
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| Victory (?) Column |
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| Victorious WWII Tank |
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| The Kherson-Sevastopol Bus A MAZ from the Minsk Automobile Plant |
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| 78 miles SE of Kherson Post-harvest fields. |
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| Vineyard, 13 miles N of Sevastopol |
Sevastopol
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| Admiral Nakhimov Leader of the Crimean defence. |
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| Eagle Column To Crimean War defenders. |
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| Lenin at Sevastopol |
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| Sevastopol Sunset |
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| Russian Navy |
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| Russian Navy |
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| Russian Navy |
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| Malakhov Mound: Memorial Column On one side 1854-1855, on the other 1941-1944. |
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| Malakhov Mound: Crimean War Memorial |
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| Malakhov Mound: WWII gun. |
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| Malakhov Mound: Crimean War cannon |
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| Sapun Gora Hill: WWII Memorial |
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| Sapun Gora Hill |
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| Sapun Gora Hill: Orthodox Chapel Oddly reminiscent of a Buddhist Stupa |
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| The "Valley of Death", now a vineyard. From Sapun Gora Hill |
Yalta
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| 5 miles East of Balaklava |
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| Livadia Palace WWII Conference Site |
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| Tsarist appartments. |
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| Lenin at Yalta |
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| Lenin at Yalta |
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| Yalta Waterfront |
Balaklava
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| Balaklava waterfront. |
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| Genoese Towers |
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| "Facility 825" Submarine Base A formerly super-secret Soviet nuclear base |
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| "Facility 825" entrance Carefully concealed from the air. |
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| Narrow entrance |
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| Wide internal tunnels |
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| Blast doors And many interior tunnels for maintenance teams. |
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| Lenin at Balaklava |
Kerch
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| Simferopol-Kerch Bus |
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| Feodosiya |
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| Kerch port |
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| Mithridates Hill |
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| WWII Obelisk |
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| Ruins of ancient Panticapaeum |
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| Ruins of ancient Panticapaeum |
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| Lenin in Kerch |
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| Church of St John the Baptist Oldest parts from 8th c. |
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| Dome of St John's. |
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| Spiffy new Hotel Kerch |
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| Port Krim - Port Kazvkaz ferry |
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| Looking to Port Kavkaz, Russia |
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| Looking into Sea of Azov |
| North Caucasus
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