The Jews of Verteba Cave
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 3, 2024
In the early 1940s, when the Nazi government began systematically hunting down Jewish people, many Jews across Europe sought refuge to avoid...
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The Building That Gave Its Residents Leukemia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2023
Building number 7 on Gvardeytsiv Kantemirovtsiv street (now known as Mariyi Pryimachenko Street) in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, was the most recent...
The Space Museum Inside a Church
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2020
About 80 km outside of Kyiv, in the small Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, there is a large complex of museums dedicated to preser...
The Soledar Salt Mines
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Some 250 million years ago, a part of Ukraine was under a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried up, it left behind a huge deposit of salt whic...
The Russian Woodpecker
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2017
Anyone who listened to shortwave radio or was a ham radio operator from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s will be familiar with a sharp, repet...
The Forgotten Soviet-Era Murals
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2017
Telling stories through mosaics and murals is a tradition that goes back to antique times. During the Soviet era, murals were used extensive...
Inkerman Cave Monastery of St. Clement
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2017
The Inkerman Monastery of St. Clement, located near the city of Inkerman at the mouth of the Black River, is built into the natural caves an...
The Deepest Metro Stations in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2017
The average metro train doesn’t go beyond a few stories underground. But sometimes the geology and the geography of the region, such as the ...
Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2016
From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...
The Catacombs of Odessa
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2016
Underneath the city of Odessa, in Ukraine, is an extensive network of tunnels believed to be the largest catacomb system in the world. Large...
Potemkin Stairs, Odessa
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2014
Made famous by Sergei Eisenstein’s epic movie Battleship Potemkin (1925), the Potemkin Stairs in Ukraine’s third largest city Odessa, is the...
Sivash Salt Lagoons in the Crimean Peninsula
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2014
The Crimean Peninsula lies between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, just south of the Ukrainian mainland, and is almost completely surroun...
7 Most Spectacular Spits on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2013
In geography, spit is a landform made by the deposition of sand by the movement of tides. Spits are narrow and elongated – one end is attach...
8 Deserts That Aren’t Really Deserts
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2012
Deserts take up nearly one-third of the Earth's land surface, yet only 41 countries in the world (one-fifth) are hosts to all the desert...
Kiev Fire Festival 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2012
For the sixth year in a row, the Kiev International Fire Festival was held in the capital city of Kiev, Ukraine, on 25th-26th of May 2012. T...
Tunnel of Love in Klevan, Ukraine
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2011
This beautiful train tunnel of trees called the Tunnel of Love is located in Klevan, Ukraine. Nothing else is known about this place. Can an...
