Kyiv is intoxicating. The city explodes with art and culture. Across Kyiv's numerous squares, locals debate politics, play chess and gossip. Its layered history, lush parks and hidden islands along the wide Dnipro provide for endless exploration. Its tree-lined promenades entice lovers to stroll, and revelers to gawk. It's a city of flâneurs. Of poets. Of politics. With this book we are pleased to share with you our love to Kyiv! The book is neither a guide nor a manual. Rather, it's an insight into the city we adore - wonderful, fascinating and strange. On its pages you'll find references to major historical events, famous and talented residents, art, culture, sports, literature, traditions, and even beloved street food.

Awesome Kyiv. Interesting Things You Need to Know

Tamara Krawchenko

Svitlana Kostrykina

Osnovy Publishing

Exploding with culture, Kyiv has become a hot travel destination. Across Kyiv’s numerous squares, locals debate politics, play chess and gossip. Its layered history, lush parks and hidden islands along the wide Dnipro provide for endless exploration. Its tree-lined promenades entice lovers to stroll, and revelers to gawk. It’s a city of flaneurs. Of poets. Of politics. Our Kyiv travel guide covers things only true Kyivans know. Written by local experts, our book is not truly a guide, nor is it a manual. It’s an insight and love-letter to the city we adore, designed to give you the best chance at adoring it, too. Unlike other Kiev travel books, we’ve designed it in full color, mirroring the richness the city has to offer. Inside Awesome Kyiv you will find: Chapters on history, culture, food, places, nature, sports, technology Gorgeous photos and images throughout the book Beautiful layout Insightful and short texts explaining interesting things you need to know about Kyiv, including historical and cultural context Fun facts. About Awesome Kyiv authors: Awesome Kyiv is created by a team of local experts, devoted to writing about the most interesting aspects of the city. About The Awesome Series: The Awesome Series travel books are best selling in Ukraine since 2012. Loved by locals and visitors alike, they are a genuine take on the Ukrainian art, cities, culture, food and traditions.

Awesome Kyiv: Interesting Things You Need To Know - A Ukraine Travel Guide

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Lviv is a fascinating city. So, we wrote a book about it! Lviv is a city whose charm speaks to your senses. It is a city of coffee drinkers, leisurely strolls and bizarre restaurants. The city’s somewhat faded grandeur, strong artistic and literary traditions invite a new urban vibe. Lviv has been at the crossroads of East and West throughout the past eight centuries since its’ founding. You can get lost amongst Lviv’s ancient churches and synagogues, meander within the Austro-Hungarian Art Nouveau city centre and Soviet-era Modernist apartment blocks. With this book we are pleased to share with you our love of Lviv! The book is neither a guide nor a manual. Rather, it’s an insight into the city we adore — wonderful, fascinating and strange. In its pages you’ll find references to major historical events, famous and talented residents, art, culture, sports, literature, traditions and even beloved street food. Inside Awesome Lviv you will find: Chapters on history, culture, food, places, nature, sports, technology Gorgeous photos and images throughout the book Beautiful layout Insightful and short texts explaining interesting things you need to know about Lviv, including historical and cultural context Fun facts. About Awesome Lviv authors: Awesome Lviv is created by a team of local experts, devoted to writing about the most interesting aspects of the city. About The Awesome Series: The Awesome Series travel books are best selling in Ukraine since 2012. Loved by locals and visitors alike, they are a genuine take on the Ukrainian art, cities, culture, food and traditions.

Awesome Lviv: Interesting Things You Need To Know - A Ukraine Travel Guide

Anna Kopylova

Dana Pavlychko

Мій дідусь

Catarina Sobral

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Hervé Tullet

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Awesome Odesa: Interesting Things You Need To Know - A Ukraine Travel Guide

Hanna Kopylova

Bohdana Pavlychko

Awesome Kyiv: Interesting things you need to know

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Osnovy Publishing LLC

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As the title suggests, Awesome Ukraine is more than a guide! Simply put, it is all that is awesome about Ukraine - from national dishes, to historical facts, symbols, mythology, popular culture and much more. This book has a highly stylized design and a unique layout with photos spanning the decades. In it you will find explanations as to: why our national symbols are the blue and yellow flag and the tryzub; why Ukrainians are sentimental towards the nightingale, vyshyvanka and salo; why we are proud of Pylyp Orlyk, Serge Lifar, the Klychko brothers and the AN-225 ""Mriya"" airplane; and why the centre of Europe is located in Zakarpattia Oblast. Inside Awesome Ukraine you will find: chapters on history, culture, food, places, nature, sports, technology gorgeous photos and images throughout the book beautiful layout insightful and short texts explaining interesting things you need to know about Kyiv, including historical and cultural context fun facts 
About The Awesome Series: The Awesome Series travel books are best selling in Ukraine since 2012. Loved by locals and visitors alike, they are a genuine take on the Ukrainian art, cities, culture, food and traditions.

Awesome Ukraine: Interesting things you need to know

Orthodox Chic is a visual exploration of architecture and urban space in independent Ukraine. The authors, architects Alex Bykov and Oleksandr Burlaka, alongside artist Sasha Kurmaz, turn to photographing post-Soviet religious architecture as a way of capturing its social, political and economic development. The authors work with several themes: the crisis that architecture faces as a professional discipline; developer strategies, whereby religion is used to manipulate and control land resources; and the status of religion of today. Nowadays, with the great increase of supposedly numinous places, authors question not only their authenticity but the possibility of an authentic religious experience. By looking closely at the place and its form, they draw attention to the fact that these sacred places do not fit within a symbolic hierarchy or system: they are fakes, both in body and in spirit. The manipulation of religion for appropriating and commercialising public space -- another one of the books main themes -- is evident in the small details. It seems as though the archaic institution of the Church fits into modern economic, technopolitical and visual paradigms. Surveillance cameras hang under the little roofs of church stalls which appear in favourable sites for large-scale construction, high-end cars parked nearby. Developers have another predatory strategy, whereby investors install small buildings with a cupola on them in the guise of a church or other religious building in public spaces in an attempt to clear these areas for further development.

Orthodox Chic — a photography book about modern, strange, ugly and bizarre religious architecture in Ukraine

Arts & Photography

Oleksandr Burlaka

Sasha Kurmaz

Alex Bykov

Photography & Video

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is a series of portraits of traffic controllers and safety officers at railroads of Ukraine. It is an exploration of why these professions still exist in the twenty-first century, given the almost complete automatization of railroad crossings. It is a study of the anthropological and social aspects of this phenomenon and the overall role of Ukraine’s railroad system. 
The Ukrainian Railroad Ladies series has an aesthetic, educational, and humanistic bias, in that it serves to reflect the complex socio-political context which Ukrainian state structures work within. 
Of course, when it comes to the aesthetics behind the railway crossings, it’s not as if they’d been preemptively thought up and put together by somebody — that’s not what makes them so personal and distinctive. 
They have come about because of how these people’s personal lives don’t stop when they come to work, and work doesn’t finish when they clock out either. 
Sasha Maslov captured these signalwomen in the tradition of modern documentary photography, photographing each of his subjects in her everyday work environment, as if in the middle of her own small world. 
The clear and naive gaze of the lens on the subject of the portrait, alongside the subject’s own gaze on her future beholder, establishes a remote visual communication, trust, and mutual sympathy between the future observer and the photo series’ real-life subjects. 
For every place and worker in the series there is only one standalone portrait, which has a comprehensive set of visual and ideological characteristics. However, the sheer number of photographs in the series shows just how varied and multifaceted this phenomenon can be, aesthetically and otherwise.

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies: a visual exploration of the traffic controllers profession on Ukrainian railway crossings

Sasha Maslov

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