Zhovti Vody (Ukrainian) or Zholti Vody (Russian) in better times before the disintegration of the USSR, was a thriving city of about 80,000. It had several uranium mines and possibly other ores too but am not sure and two large factories making electronics for the Soviet military. As such, it was a closed city in that you could not come here without clearance, if even then. I don't know how that works but I know that Russia still uses the closed city system.
These pictures are from the website Odnoclassniki, sort of a Facebook for pictures and messaging. Tanya has found many of her old school chums and we have looked at pictures from all over Russia.
Note: I corrected the mix-up of names from the original post as I had the Ukrainian Zhovti as Russian and the Russian Zholti as Ukrainian.
These pictures are from the website Odnoclassniki, sort of a Facebook for pictures and messaging. Tanya has found many of her old school chums and we have looked at pictures from all over Russia.
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| No idea where this fountain went |
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| Memorial to the Great Patriotic War |
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| Petrovskovo St before the trees grew |
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| The Zhovti Vody bus depot |
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| The theatre before the trees grew |
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| Everyone headed for the football game. Local team was the Avant Garde. Shashlik and bliney took the place of hot dogs and hamburgers |
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| The movie theatre in the days when it showed movies. |
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| The main of three hospitals |
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| Khmelnitskovo Blvd before they put up Bogdan's statue |
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| The far end of Khmelnitskovo blvd. |
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| Leaving Zhovti Vody for Krivii Rih (Ukrainian) Krivoi Rog (Russian). |
Aaah... the good old days.
ReplyDeleteThings were better for the ordinary people than they are now.
DeleteAnd where is this in relation to where you live?
ReplyDeleteIf the world were square, we live at the south east corner of the city, just into the country.
DeleteNice pics...
ReplyDeleteThanks. Not as classy as the ones you posted.
DeleteGoogle maps and Wikipedia still use the Russian spelling. A graph on wikipedia looks like about 48,000 population in 2011.
ReplyDeleteI lied. Zhovti Vody is Ukrainian and Zholti Vody is Russian. I had it backwards. I will fix it on my post.
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