to : Poland 
                                                            from : Russia

part of my trip 2005

read about the trip
banknotes / billets de banque

Koktebel near Feodosyia : volcanic cliffs

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Yalta : the sea front (note that the Black sea is ... blue !)

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Yalta : church

Yalta : Livadia Palace

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Yalta : Livadia Palace (where the 1945 Yalta conferencec took place)

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Ai Petri : looking down on the coast from 1200 m above sea level

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Lastochkino Gnezdo (now an italian restaurant)

Sevastopol : memorial to scuttled ships (more night photos here)

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Sevastopol : the harbour

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Balaklava : sunset over the harbour
(more sunsets here)

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Balaklava : the coast

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Balaklava : small beach

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Bakhchisarai : the tatar Khan's palace (note how the turkish style of the minarets)

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Near Bakhchisarai : monastery carved into the cliff

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Odessa : the opera

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Odessa : the Potemkin steps

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Kiev : river Dnipro and the Pishoknidny Bridge
(more bridges here)

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Kiev : On Maydan Nezalezhnosty (Independence Sq.). Demonstration of people from the communist party, and
of supporters of the russian language. They consider it is fascist to impose only Ukrainian while many people
in the country are Russian speakers. I joined Yevgenia, my friend from Moscow for a photo.
Note the Russian, Romanov (yellow) and communist flags on the same picture !

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Kiev : Maydan Nezalezhnosty (Independence Sq.) at night
(more night photos here)

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Kiev : golden domes of St Sophia cathedral

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Kiev : Lavra monastery, Uspensky cathedral

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Kiev : Motherland statue at the memorial complex of the 1941-1945 war (more photos of statues here)

Lvov / Lviv : street of the old town