Colors Of Life - Yurr's Personal Photoblog

The Sofia Square

The Sofia Square in Kiev.

Bridge over Dnepr

Old two-level Preobrazhensky bridge over Dnepr river in Zaporozhye. View from Khortytsia island. In 50's through the new Dnepr was built two-level bridge, the lower floor of which was designed for pedestrians and auto transport, and the top - for the railroad. The total length of the bridge is 560m, the height of 54M.

Сolors of Autumn

Bright colors of autumn.

Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev

Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus'. Today, it is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first Ukrainian patrimony to be inscribed on the World Heritage List. (UNESCO World Heritage Site №527) The cathedral's name comes from the 6th-century Hagia Sophia cathedral in Constantinople (meaning Holy Wisdom, and dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God rather than a specific saint named Sophia). The first foundations were laid in 1037, but the cathedral took two decades to complete. The structure has 5 naves, 5 apses, and (quite surprisingly for Byzantine architecture) 13 cupolas. It ...

Assumption Cathedral in Kiev

Assumption Cathedral. Kiev The Assumption (Uspensky) Cathedral in Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Kiev, Ukraine (1073-78, rebuilt 1640s, destroyed 1941, rebuilt 1998). Cathedral of the Assumption is the largest cathedral in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves). Begun in 1073 and heavily restored in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Assumption Cathedral was blown up during World War II and completely rebuilt between 1998 and 2000.

Old Carpathian Huts

I accidentally found this old huts walking in Carpathians. It looked like they were hiding from everybody. Most of Carpathians use such huts as a summer country house. But far in the mountains, very rarely you can still find people living in such huts.