Tuesday, 22 August 2006

2006-08-22. Киев. Лига Чемпионов. 3-ий квал. раунд. "Маккаби" (Хайфа) - "Ливерпуль"

a1. 21Aug06, Kiev, Planeta Sport - Malkolio, Alena, Dima Demirskiy, Kret, Alex64, Vadik, Sash
a2. Dinner - Vadik, Dima, Dany (passed out), Alena, Malkolio, Sash, Alex64
a3. 22Aug06, WW2 Memorial Complex
a4. Gunboat with the victory statue
a5. Socialist realism
a6. Partisanen
a7. More socialist realism
a8. Crossing of the Dnieper, so to speak
a9. Victory baba
a10. Deranged Adolf
a11. Map of German atrocities in the Ukraine
a12. They who come with a sword... leave behind rusty helmets
a13. Banners of the victorious Soviet fronts
a14. Dima loves peace, he does
a15. I am actually simply trying to stay upright
a16. Krestovozdvizhenskaya Church
a17. Krestovozdvizhenskaya Church and chapel
a18. Khreschatik an hour before the kick-off
a19. Preparing for the forthcoming Independence Day parade at Maidan Nezalezhnosti
a20. Entrance to the Lobanovsky stadium
a21. Just making sure we're at the right match
a22. Sash with Dany and Alex64 at the ground
a23. First half
a24. Some of the travelling support
a25. Attacking the Maccabi goal, main stand in the background
a26. With Duce and Vlad at half-time
a27. Politics and football
a28. YNWA at the end
a29. Alex64
a30. Dima Nevermind, Sash, Alex64 after the match
a31. 23Aug06, 6am after the match, survivors' photo - Edgecrusher, Pata, Ingumsky, Angel_neo, Alex64, Duce
a32. Baseina vulica
a33. Shovkovychna vulica
a34. Hospitalna, our block of flats on the left, hotel Rus in the background
a35. Presidential Palace, Bankova vulica
a36. House with Chimeras (detail with eagle and leopard), Bankova vulica
a37. (detail with frogs)
a38. (detail with stag and rhino)
a39. House with Chimeras (in a very fittingly strange light)
a40. Monument to the victims of repressions 1930s-50s
a41. Maidan Nezalezhnosti
a42. The Lobanovsky stadium the day after the match
a43. Mariinskiy Palace
a44. Rada (Parliament)
a45. Monument to the rising of the Kiev arsenal workers in October 1917 (fecking hooligans)
a46. Victory Spire
a47. Kievo-Pecherska Lavra behind Askol'dova Mogila
a48.Troitskaya Church, entance to the Lavra
a49. The Great Bell tower and Uspenskiy Cathedral
a50. Uspenskiy Cathedral
a51. Trapeznaya Church and Hall & Stolypin's grave
a52.Uspenskiy Cathedral (rear)
a53. Lower Lavra
a54. Uspenskiy sobor from the ascent below it
a55. Monument to the Start players who won all their games in 1942 against the occupiers at the Start stadium
a56. Monument ii
a57. The Start (ex-Zenit) stadium in a park off vul. Marshala Rybalka
a58. view off the main stand
a59. The main stand
a60. The slope is still there
a61. Sash at the Start stadium
a62. The Golden Gate off Yaroslaviv Val
a63. Vladimirskaya ulica, the turn to Malo-Proval'na ulica, where Alexei Turbin was wounded
a64. Jaroslav Hasek stayed at Hotel St.Petersburg on Vladimirskaya, where he began writing the Good Soldier Sveik
a65. Hotel St.Petersburg, currently shut. In 1941 General Vlasov's command post during the defence of Kiev was on its roof
a66. Monument to Bogdan Hmelnicki on Sofiyskaya Square with Mikhajlovskiy Zlatoverhij Cathedral in the background
a67. The bell tower of the Sozfiyskiy Cathedral
a68. Bogdan close up
a69. Rastrelli's Andreevskaya Cerkov' at the top of Andreevskiy Spusk
a70. The top of Andreevskiy Spusk
a71. Andreevskiy Spusk
a72. A lane of paintings off Andreevskiy Spusk
a73. Andreevskiy Spusk, looking up to Andreevskaya Cerkov'
a74. Bulgakov's house on Andreevskiy Spusk
a75. Sash outside Bulgakov's house - a mecca for some, including Sash
a76. 50 Roubles, 1919, Bank of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia (Denikin), obverse
a77. 50 Roubles, 1919, Bank of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia (Denikin), reverse