Ukraine List

About a week ago I read this story about a pod of dolphins attacking a swimmer in the Black Sea, so I thought I would do a post on Black Sea bottlenose dolphins. Of course, it didn’t take much searching the web to see that the Black Sea dolphin was not fairing well considering […]

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I came across an interesting satellite photo of the Black Sea and thought I would post it, but then I did a bit more searching and came up with my favorites images along with some interesting information. All images are from NASA, and I will give the links for each photo as the larger images […]

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In 1894 Tsar Nicholas II decided to build a great winery in the Crimea. Lacking proper storage facilities, local miners were called in to dig three layers of cool, humid cellars. He wanted some vino for his Livadia Palace — fair enough. The resulting winery, Massandra, is pictured below.

As for Tsar Nicholas’ wine tastes the […]

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I have been busy reviewing sites today, so I will highlight four sites that I found useful and interesting.
The first is Buy Ukraine. I had seen this advertised on a few sites and just now checked it out. Basically, it’s an income-generating project of the US-Ukraine Foundation that uses the proceeds from sales to […]

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Travel 2 Crimea is not the best designed site in the world, but I find it refreshingly good. What I like about Travel 2 Crimea is its niche focus and what appears to be the dedication of the people who run it (Ihor Brudny and Sergey Sorokin). The site offers bookings to 25 area hotels […]

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I ran into the Ethnologue site today, which I found quite interesting. It lists the various ethnic groups and languages of Ukraine, and though some of the statistics may be a bit dated, it is ultimately a useful reference if you are interested in ethnic and language issues.
For instance, I found the Greek portion of […]

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First of all, I must caveat this post. I am not a rock climber of any sort. I have rappelled and climbed only once and was bad it. I don’t rock climb, boulder, ice climb, rappel or cave. And not only am I not good at this stuff, I am not limber, I have back […]

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This a great photo from Alex (a.k.a. Meskalito) showing wild flowers in Crimea. Meskalito has a lot of great photos on Flickr, and I would highly recommend checking them out. This one in particular is even more impressive in a larger format. Meskalito also has photo sets that include extreme sport shots such as base […]

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