Ukraine Tours through the YouTube, section two: Eastern and East Central Ukraine.
Let's travel around
Ukraine through the YouTube, section two. Section two takes us to eleven oblasts in Eastern
and East Central Ukraine.
I'm adding a map to help us locate ourselves.
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Our
first stops are in the following oblasts: Kharkivs'ka, Luhans'ka, Donets'ka, Zaporiz'ka, and Dinpropetrovs'ka.
Click on the map to locate these in the eastern part of Ukraine. You can click on each oblast for a closer look.
Kharkivs'ka
kharkov charkov charkow charkiw kharkiw
Kharkiv (kharkov), Ukraine, February 2008: Just make some small clips, going through city
Sport SMI Kharkov: table tennis
Larra Granada. A.Ilkiv (trumpet): Concert in Kharkov Philarmonie.Kharkov symphony orchestra.Conductor Juriy Janko.
IVORY Band - Proud Mary: IVORY Band 2008 - Proud Mary (Creedence). Ukraine, Kharkov.
Kate's Favorite Dancing Fountain, Kharkiv, Ukraine: My favorite fountain among many cool ones here.
inundation in Kharkiv
Lozova
Lozova in fire: The ammunition depot on fire and blowing up.
Luhans'ka
Luhansk: A walk through the outdoor market, apparently with an American visitor and her camcorder. Presented by choico78
Luhansk: More of the outdoor market. Presented by choico78
Luhansk: Ukraine without dance would not be Ukraine. Presented by choico78
Bilovodsk
Olga Vodolazova "Provansalskaya Obadi" in the style of Couperin ...
Severodonetsk
Fountain in Syeverodonetsk. Ukraine.
Lutugino
Donets'ka
Donetsk
Donetsk: Pushkin's boulevard in Donetsk Ukraine
Donets'ka Region: Ukrainian Stoneheads Ukrainian national reserve "Stone Hills"
Krasny
Liman
Zaporiz'ka
Zaporozhye, Zaporizhzhia
Khortitsa Zaporozhye (The island fortress that was the focal point of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. It was destroyed in 1775 by
the Russian Tsarist military of Catherine the Great.)
Melitopol
Wild Ice Cream Dances 3. Ice Creams Reloaded
Berdansk
The
town where Olga Kurylenko was born and raised. You may recognize her as the latest “James Bond” girl of the movie
series. This is 2008. Topical and for that reason I selected a very nice Youtube clip showing the resort city. Don’t
worry about the Russian language, just enjoy the scenery. It is located along the Sea of Azov.
Film Berdansk,city JOY part 2
Dnipro: Dnipropetrovsk
Dnepropetrovsk Ukraine (dancing)
Freestyle meeting in Dnipropetrovsk 06.07.08
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For the second
leg of our tour of the oblasts we start in Poltavs'ka (just west of Kharkivsi'ka) and then north to Sumska, west to
Chernihivs'ka, west to Kyyivs'ka, south to Cherkas'ka and then south again to Kirovhrads'ka.
Click on the map and then you can click on each oblast.
Poltavis'ka
Three female singers playing banduras from Poltava: Mazepa Fest Poltava Ukraine kobza bandura music festival (This is my absolute
favorite of all the YouTube clips from and about Ukraine, David)
Poltava Bike Trip 2007, 1 of 2
Poltava Ukrainian Pavilion: Poltava Ukrainian Pavilion at Mosaic festival 2007. This dance was the grand finale
"Monument of N.V.Gogol"
Myrogorod
MIRGOROD (Ukraine)
Velyki Sorochyntsi (near Myrogorod)
In this Cossack village Gogol was born. In his day it hosted a well known fair five
times a year, about which Gogol wrote. The fair was closed by the plague of the Soviet Union upon the land but has since reopened
and is a national fair of Ukraine.
Cossacks: Cossacks Song, Sorochyntsi, Ukraine
Nikolai Gogol
(Mykola Hohol in Ukrainian) 1809 – 1852. Hohol was born and raised in the Paltava Governorate of the Russian Empire.
More precisely he was born in Sorochyntsi (now Velyki Sorochyntsi) near Mirgorod.
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After his education
in what is now Ukraine he moved to St. Petersberg which was the Russian destination for young talent.
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Gogol became a Russian
writer but several of his works were set in Ukraine and borrowed from Ukrainian lore. One would think that his story “Viy”
came from the Ukrainian earth but it didn’t. It is a pure invention of Gogol’s feverish mind.
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That mind led to his
early death as though he willed himself to die and in doing so left behind a mostly destroyed unfinished work that he believed
(probably rightly) would become one of the great pieces of world literature.
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The following eight
clips are the 1967 Russian film, “Viy”, and are well worth watching. Toal run time is about an hour. Nikolai Gogol
is also well worth a web search to read about his personal history and about his other works.
Sadly Youtube has removed Viy - something about violation of terms of use. This is a shame. I wish
it were here for you to watch. D
Dikanka (Dykanka)
This village is made notable by Gogol’s “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”.
This book of short stories set the tone for his future works and are fascinating presentaions.
We will step out of the tour with one
link to one story, “St. John’s Eve”. Well worth reading.
Read book on line for Gogols St. Johns Eve
There are several short YouTube videos representing stories from “Evenings on a Farm Near
Dikanka”. Here is a short one.
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Shostka
PKP Ty 3 2 leave Konotop 1993
Romny: Lucy, Lena and Natasha walking and talking through Romny.
Chernihivs'ka
Ukrainian sunflower Ukrainian fields of sunflowers in Chernihiv region.
Chernihiv
Chernigov (Chernihiv) Very nice old church
Borzna
Borzna Town: This is the center of Borzna.
Baturyn –
Baturyn is not on the tour map – to locate it
draw a line north to south between Korop and Bakhmach. Baturyn lies on this line and is directly east of
Borzna. Baturyn is Hetman Ivan Mazepa’s home village. It contains history worth knowing. Hetman Mazepa’s history
is worth knowing – scorned as a traitor in Russia and honored as a hero in Ukraine.
Baturyn - Baturin 1: Museum in Baturyn - Baturin, Chernihiv region
1708 Tragedy Studied by Ukrainian Archeologists.
Bakhmach
Hockey in Bakhmach: Hockey in Bakhmach at 12 Jan 2008
Kyyivs'ka
Chernobyl
Chernobyl Great video of Family life in Chernobyl before and after the nuclear accident. Music is "Huns and Dr. Beeker Ghost
Town." Very sad.
Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine
Kiev For all those who want to know... or want to go back...
Mission to Ukraine 7/17/2007 - St Sophia's Cathedral
Requiem / Panachyda for the victims of Chornobyl Requiem/Panachyda for the victims of Chornobyl,sung by the Frescoes of Kyiv
Chamber Choir at St. Michaels Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 26, 2001 (15th anniversary of the disaster).
Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev Overview of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev, Ukraine
Cherkas'ka
Cherkassy
River Voyage by Soviet Hydrofoil On board a Soviet made Hydrofoil as it navigates the Dniepre River between Cherkassy and
Kiev, Ukraine in May 1999
Envy (in Cherkassy)
Kirovhrads'ka
Kirovohrad Number 1
Kirovohrad Number 2
Kirovohrad Number 3
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The Oblast map is presented so that you may look back on
the eleven oblasts visited. There are thirteen more plus Crimea. They will be divided onto separate pages.
The next group comprises the three oblasts, and Crimea, that border on the Black Sea.
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on YouTube Link Three. It's ready to go at your pleasure!
Ukraine Tours through the YouTube, section one: Introducing Ukraine.
You are here, "Section two: Eastern and East
Central Ukraine."
Ukraine Tours through the YouTube, section three: along the Black Sea.
Ukraine Tours through the YouTube, section four: West Central and Western Ukraine.
Ukraine Tours through the YouTube, section five: the People of Western Ukraine.
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