Pavlo Morkovkin's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Pavlo Morkovkin

🇺🇦 Ukrainian traveler and freelance writer. Fan of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Greater Middle East, all kinds of disputed areas, unrecognized republics, and other geopolitical anomalies.

https://www.instagram.com/tripsandquips/

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Kyiv Institute of Information

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

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Kyiv Crematorium

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

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Added by hrnick

Lychakiv Cemetery

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

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Added by petrosmonogios

Odessa, Ukraine

Trade Unions Building

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

Added by hoppdanson

Odessa, Ukraine

Mother-In-Law Bridge

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

SamM

Holodomor Victims Memorial

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

Added by chernobaevlucy

Toilet History Museum

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

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House with Chimaeras

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

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Arsenalna Metro Station

The deepest metro station in the world.

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Peeing Colors in Kyiv

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

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Museum of the Great Patriotic War

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

Added by rmcculloch

Golden Gate of Kyiv

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Added by Kavya Ram Mohan

Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Dampo

Pripyat, Ukraine

Abandoned Avanhard Stadium of Pripyat

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

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Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

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Pripyat, Ukraine

Pripyat Amusement Park

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

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Pripyat, Ukraine

Abandoned City of Pripyat

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Added by Delireus

Belgrade, Serbia

Igrali Se Konji Vrani (Black Horses at Play)

The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

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Belgrade, Serbia

Ruins of Yugoslav Army Headquarters

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

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Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade Tesla Museum

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Peter the Great Statue

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

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Children are the Victims of Adult Vices

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

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Moscow Metro Stations

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Added by rohancf

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Chizhik Pyzhik

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.