eastern bloc party

(via cryptkeebler)

Potemkin Stairs, Odessa (Ukraine)

saveferris:

Kiev, Ukraine (by Lenelenka)

nostalgiya:

Portraits of Ukraine (1882).

(via)

heartbreakincarnate:

Siberia, Russia

kjuea2046:

The astonishing work of Ukrainian painter Ivan Marchuk, self-proclaimed ‘dabbist’ and Ukraine’s most prominent modern artist, soon to have his own museum in Kiev.

Click through for a full, high quality gallery, well worth a visit. Thanks to apm65, (http://apm65.blogspot.com) for putting it together

lochild:

(via oh-susquehanna)

“designer’s portrait” by oprisco (photographer from kiev, ukraine) on deviantart. i think pictured here is Ukrainian artist/designer Masha Reva, as I spy her yellow coat in the right hand bottom corner (i blogged it earlier here)

A girl posing for photograph in a costume of her favourite character Pokemon. Lugansk, 2004. Photographer: Aleksandr Chekmenev

“Viktor Mitriaev, born in Odessa, two academic degrees in music: opera singer (dramatic tenor) and conductor. Upon graduation in the sixties was allocated, to Donetsk. When he sings, his neighbours open the windows, so that they may hear him better. Torez, Donetsk region, 2001” - Photographer: Aleksandr Chekmenev

Poltava, Panyanskiy Boulevard, 2005 (Ukraine).
Photographer: Eduard Stanadko

Photograph by Mathieu Raffard

“During the summer of 2009, I followed the migration of thousands of young Russians who were going to dance at one of the musical festivals of the Crimea coast. They come to the Ukrainian beaches to celebrate hedonism, sun, music and vodka.”

“Giant Humanlike Combat Robot” outside Odessa, Ukraine, used as a traffic signpost/landmark.

a series of comics about makhno and the bolksheviks in ukraine:

http://labouchedefer.free.fr/spip.php?article5