I hvae seen Ukrainka from the passing train window many times, and the beaches on Stuhna, as well as the piles of coal on the Dnieper shore have always attracted me. Finally I got here.
The road from the highway to Ukrainka was all potholes, making cars slow down to 5 km/h.
The first houses become visible from a distance — from somewhere near the «Lissod clinic» bus stop.
The town sign when arriving from Kyiv.
A bridge for cars and a suspended construction near the mouth of river Stuhna.
The sandy hills between this bridge and the railroad one have beaches, pine trees, and look nice from a train.
Dachas and houses on a spit between Kozynka and Stuhna. Nice houses on the river — some or all having ladders into the water (probably, from saunas) and a smiley face on a roof. Someone was living their life.
A lot of pines were growing in the town. Maybe it was not as gloomy with the evergreens as it could be without them during winters.
A narrow street going away in the direction of Kyiv. It had bad pavement in 2013.
In almost no time I arrived to the main Shevchenko square. The town hall is here, and the holy place of buses of 313 route shuttling between Ukrainka and Kyiv's Vydubychi.
People have stopped writing bus stop names around five years before this day.
A little castle for kids nearby. It was clean, maybe because it stood right under numerous windows of residential buildings.
A hill among apartment buildings.
There was only 6 street names in Ukrainka, if I didn't miss anything. Here's the beginning of Sosnova street, having an unfinished sports complex building.
Two residential buildings in the end of Sosnova where called «mercedeses» unofficially due to their Y-shaped form.
These mercedes-like buildings were standing basically right on the river.
Another suspended construction — this time, of a cafe. It has been blocking the passage at that time.
The quay of Ukrainka is a beautiful place, unless you've been here 20 or more times already.
A main pier, almost unused at that time. I think that I must have been here as a passenger of a hydrofoil around 1990.
Central stairs from the pier to a house of culture called «Energetyk».
These were places on the leisure-oriented, river-facing side of the town.
The other street embracing the main area of the town was the Yunosti street, and it was the town's backyard — parallel to the railroad, it had a market, a microscopic bus station, various garages and workshops were all here. The bus station served the passing buses:
Former public bath. It was obviously abandoned at that time, with an automobile workshop from behind.
Fire department.
Leaving Ukrainka in the direction of Trypillia. Passed by these remnants of a soviet bus stop, designed as a letter «A» from the word «autobus».
The beginning of Promyslova street. This road connected Ukrainka with Obukhiv.
The attractive coal piles with a transporter — it was because of them that I got interested in Ukrainka. I can say that this had big effects on my life.
The pipes of Trypillia HPP were serving both as pipes and as power line pillars.
An old industrial area near the road sign about the edge of Ukrainka.
A view of Ukrainka from the neighboring Trypillia.