Went on a walk with friends. For that, we took a train.
Nizhyn is a very old town, but it didn't grow to be a big city. Maybe, because the Oster river is too small for that?
Went on a walk with friends. For that, we took a train.
Nizhyn is a very old town, but it didn't grow to be a big city. Maybe, because the Oster river is too small for that?
We saw Hrafsky park, which had some strong and nice vegetation.
This bust of Mykola Hohol stood the most beautiful way possible — among beautiful thujas (I guess these were Thuja occidentalis). This well-known writer studied in the university which was not far from here. There were two busts of Hohol in Nizhyn.
Another thing in the park was this memorial to victims of the Second World War.
Nizhyn has a lot of churches. Maybe, even too many of them?
The ones we saw were all quiet, empty and clean:
Corner of Lenin and Hohol streets
Building nr. 3 of Nizhyn medical college.
An old one, having more than one apartment
District government sat in this pink building.
Veterinary clinic and slot machines were sharing this pre-revolution building erected in 1913.
They were old and had varying forms. Like this one:
or these:
or such — masked modern double-glazed,
or such — together with an old number plate that had been painted over:
There was a myth about this house. It was called «the cursed house with ghosts». The curse that it had was a funny one: if any TV crew tries to film it, then surnames of its tenants never get recorded. What a scary curse! The curse has been cast by some greek man who was extorted from this house for some reason, despite he had built it.
I do not believe it, but you can, if you want to.
...or such nice one.
The main post office.
Soviet mosaic included the Pravda newspaper.
There weren't many people on the streets. Marshrutkas were roaming the town. There were approximately twice as many bicycles as there were cars. The most common type of bus was this one (I guess it is a ПАЗ 32054):
Saving images of these two dogs as a memorial, because they have such a short life...
The train station in the late evening. The water body visible to the right was not present on our paper map. Perhaps, it was just a large puddle.