
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
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