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Comment from Sergey Sorokin
Time: January 22, 2007, 4:40 pm

Hello. My name is Sergey Sorokin. I’m a private mountain guide from Crimea. I’m 28 years old and work as a guide more than 6 years already. I saw on your sites www.ukrainelist.com mentioned a lot of very good and quality web sites. The idea that I write to you is that I would like you to have a look at 2 my projets (may be just a very-very small look :
1) http://www.mapofukraine.net/ -
this is a maps and pictures resource about Ukraine. Non-commercial projet, just to give to people the main idea about HOW IS LOOK UKRAINE - here my own maps and pictures of different towns and cities of Ukraine and Crimean peninsula.

2) http://www.mt.crimea.com/ -
Outdoor activities in Crimea - here is information about rock climbing, multipitch climbing, mountain biking and hiking in Crimea, my programs of tours and a big number of pics of mountain and coastal views of Crimea. This website made in 3 languages: English, French and Russian (I speak all of them).

If you find the information on my websites is useful and worth of visit… I’ll be really happy if you mention it in one of the sections of your website..

———–
Best regards,
Sergey Sorokin - private mountain guide.

Comment from John Hughes
Time: February 5, 2007, 12:00 pm

I am trying to locate a street in Odessa, but have not been able to find a street map or guide, the road, is Avdeevo Chernomorsgo street, any help would be appreciated.
John

Comment from host
Time: February 5, 2007, 3:47 pm

Avdeeva-Chernomorskovo Street (Авдеева-Черноморского ул.) was changed to Plieva (Плиева) after independence.

If you go to http://www.odessapassage.com/odessa/index.phtml?lang=en

and then click on the Odesa map (карта Одессы) in the red portion on lower left right beneath the car icon. There you will have a city map and Plieva St. is located in the bottom middle square.

Host

Comment from Margaret Hicks
Time: February 9, 2007, 7:50 am

I am trying to get from Krakow to Lvov. Do you have any suggestions? thanks, Margaret Hicks

Comment from host
Time: February 10, 2007, 8:55 am

I have written a couple posts on travel between Poland and Ukraine, so here is one that may help.

http://www.ukrainelist.com/archives/208

However, the best way to get answers to these types of travel questions is to submit your question and as much details that you have about your travel plans to one of the many forums.

I have a specific page listing forums under ‘travel guides’ with some description of each, but I also have done a blog post on travel forums talking about which ones I find useful.

http://www.ukrainelist.com/archives/214

I don’t want to pass the question off, but I think you would get better more varied information by visiting a well-used forum where a lot of people can give up-to-date, specific information.

From what I recall the people at Hidden Europe magazine usually give good information and respond in some of the forums. Just try searching the forums first as this question is fairly common.

Thanks for contacting this site and good luck.

Host

Comment from carpetblogger
Time: February 14, 2007, 7:14 am

I tried to post this under the Richard Scarry book post but there was no comment space. Anyway, I had the book in Azeri.

Do you have rss somewhere on the site?

Comment from host
Time: February 14, 2007, 9:38 am

Carpertblogger,

First of all, sorry, but I turned off comments on my posts as I didn’t have time for moderation, and then my wordpress theme makes it look like they are still on. With that said, I will be allowing comments (at least selectively) in the near future.

That’s interesting you have an Azeri copy. I did a quick search for Russian, but nothing immediately came up, though I would expect it to exist. Though I never would have guessed Azeri.

Oh yeah, the rss feed for this site should be:

http://www.ukrainelist.com/feed/

Host

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Time: May 29, 2007, 7:19 am

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С уважением Вадим

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Comment from ISABELLA
Time: October 5, 2007, 1:17 pm

hi there, I would love to purchase a video or the salt mines in Ukraine, Im originally from Tashkent, have a salt based business in the USA, www.solaywellness.com and I would like to post a video on my website of the salt mines around the world, pictures are great but an actual video would be much better. If anyone can help, please contact me and let me know how much you would charge to make one of any of the salt mines used for speleotherapy, poland, baku, ukraine etc etc/ or if you have one already. My email is solaywellness@gmail.com .

Thank you
Isabella

Comment from Yana Lisitsina
Time: November 26, 2007, 4:14 pm

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Best regards,
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E-mail: info@romital.kiev.ua

Comment from Irina Timchenko
Time: February 4, 2008, 10:56 am

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Comment from michelle
Time: February 7, 2008, 5:07 pm

do you know of anyone, in the ukraine, who supplies salt to build a salt room in my house ? i reside in western europe

Comment from Susan Tanya Michaels (Michalenko)
Time: February 10, 2008, 12:42 pm

My grandfather, Ivan Michalenko (who changed his name to John) immigrated from Kiev in 1905 with his wife, Anna, and their four children. They homesteaded in Max, North Dakota and eventually had 8 children. He joined his older brother, Peter, who had 13 children. I believe that the middle brother, Alexander, and his 12 children may have been Mennonites who were located in the little community known as Kief, North Dakota. All were born in Biorka, Kiev, to George and Thelma Michalenko. The three brothers had a total of 33 offspring and so that clan, as disconnected as they eventually became, formed a large Ukranian/Russian population in ND in the early 1900’s, but I am finding only small scatterings of information about that community.

There are 18 Michalenko’s buried in the Kief Cemetery, and four from my family line (my grandfather, grandmother, and their two sons, Ned and Nick) buried in the First Baptist Russian Cemetery in Ward County, ND. Ivan/John Michalenko was a founding member of the First Baptist Russian Church in ND.

I’m currently in the process of locating relatives of these three brothers who immigrated from Kiev in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. My father ‘Americanized’ his name from Michalenko to Michaels and I was not told this until after he had passed away. Naturally, the search to learn about our ancestors was hampered by this name change.

In my humble opinion, a more correct translation of the family surname from the Cyrillic to English would be spelled ‘Mikhailenko’.

If you learn any more about this little village of Kief, North Dakota, please share your information with me. My guess is that most of the original living 33 children of these three brothers grew up with a desire to leave the area and their descendants are now scattered all across the USA.

There are a huge number of Michalenkos in the US and as far as I know, very very few of us know each other. I’d like to see that change with the next generation. We have such an interesting cultural heritage.

I have been a public school teacher for 30 years and love to travel. I hope to visit the Michalenko gravesites in ND in the near future, and also find out if the First Russian Baptist Church is still standing. I also dream about visiting the original Kiev in the Ukraine someday.

Please write to me if you would like to converse about any of these topics.
Blessings, Susan Tanya Michaels

Comment from Fr. Oliver Herbel
Time: March 4, 2008, 12:47 pm

I just happened to stumble across your site today by reading the December, 2006 posting on Ukrainians in North Dakota. I would only like to add three things:
1) Many North Dakotans, including myself, are of “German-Russian” heritage, though this really often means “German-Ukrainian.”
2) I am the priest/pastor of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Fargo, North Dakota. I am the first full time priest since one briefly lived in North Dakota since 1988 and we are still getting off the ground.
3) Included in our parish are some Ukrainian Orthodox believers. If you know of others, feel free to send them our way. We are a parish that has no one dominating ethnicity, but we do have some Ukrainian immigrants, so Ukrainian Orthodox should feel welcome. Our site is www.stnicholasfargo.org

Comment from Jewel Gatlin
Time: March 20, 2008, 1:35 am

Hi - I would like to address the posting by Susan Tanya Michaels (she left no email address to contact her personally). My mother, though not a Michaelanko, was born and raised in Kief, ND. That town is celebrating their centennial THIS summer (2008) and has a website you can look up. - http://www.kiefcentennial.com/Kief%20Centennial.htm -
I noticed on some of the older pictures, the name Michaelanko was listed, some with people near their farm machinery, and some under the school pictures. My aunt Mabel was a Michaelanko, she married my uncle Lawrence Kizima (passed away) whose picture is on the website under veterans. She lives in Minot, ND. I know her brother passed away last year, and she says she is alone, no family left. (Her daughter died a few years ago). She said she lived on a farm near Kief, but she was from a very small family. She does have a cousin that lives in Bismark, ND.
The Baptist church is still standing, and still being used. I saw it last year. My family were also Mennonites, and the Mennonite church (first Ukrainian-Mennonite church in the US)is next door to the baptist church, and it too is still standing, though no longer being used. My parents were married in that church.
I also have relatives that lived in Max, ND. Max also has a website from their centennial 2 years ago. - www.maxnd.com - Look it up, and contact someone from the website, or look up under alumni, and there are some email addresses there (although I didn’t see any Michaelanko’s).
Hope this helps. I do genealogy too, and I like getting ideas from people, even if they aren’t related. You may email me at jwlgatlin@yahoo.com
Good luck on your search! Jewel Gatlin

Comment from ivan skory
Time: April 20, 2008, 6:55 pm

my grandson