Kherson

I've been to Kherson again, this page is my proof; it was a short visit again. There were two of us, and we quickly found ourselves near the passenger port.

A steamboat called «Hero Starikov» headed towards Hola Pristan with us onboard.

The river traffic was very serious here.

Most ships were turkish,

except for one from Italy, one from Panama, one called Sea Tramp from a country unknown to me, and this one that was called Angelika.

The enormous building of the shipyard.

Some gigantic ship that did not fit into the frame from my vantage point aboard a steamboat. One of online maps of that time told me that this ship had served in the Arctic. It had retired to the warm south, I guess.

Some minuscule vessel that had to be zoomed to from my vantage point.

I only saw the very edge of this town. Its quay was empty when we were passing by.

Our steamboat continued onto another branch of Dnieper's delta. That branch was called Konka.

We climbed off without a pier — directly from the nose of the steamboat.

During a short stay at Chayka recreational site we were taken to the Bobrove lake on a boat. The lake was completely covered with water lilies.

There was a bird city on these water lilies. The birds were black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), and were very protective against us, yelling and making close flybys.

Birdwatching excursions were available to this place, but we were not birdwatchers.

We swam in the Dnieper instead, after crossing the Bobrove lake and leaving the birds alone.

The oldest model of Zaporozhets was standing at a tiny isle.

The long and straight Ushakova avenue went from the train station to the river port. This is what you'd saw if you were coming to Kherson by train:

The avenue did not make any turns on its way to the very edge of Dnieper. It had pedestrian fences with slots for flower pots, empty, though.

Abandoned cinema near a monument of John Howard.

The monument itself.

Nobody needed this architectural detail in the wall of a cinema.

Two signs were giving directions to nearest payphones, not taking the visible payphone into account

The main square called square of Glory, and the government building with pine trees. Lenin was still there, and there were both flowerpots and flowers in the street fences.

Sponsors were listed at the entrance to a memorial park for militia.

It did not take too long for me to reach the end of the avenue, where I saw the big soviet hotel called «Fregat».

This ball was a fountain, turned off at that time. Pigeons were using it.

A small quay was here, having a monument and a cannon.

Now that I've seen the main avenue, it was the time to visit random side streets.

Old houses near Petrenka street,

stray cats,

and some people.

This street sign contained a spelling mistake.

There was a railway spur before the river port, and it could become blocked by long trains back in the days. Because of that, an underpass existed. It looked scary, see for yourself.

I only saw a train containing just a locomotive, this classic one:

Petrenka street was not very interesting.

I also went to the pedestrian bridge over the passenger train station.

A memorial plaque about Kherson being awarded the honor of Lenin stood at the station square.