Yesterday I went on a field trip with my school's sixth grade. We got on a bus at 5:50AM and drove three hours east to Svyatogorsk, a Russian Orthodox monastery and church complex (lavra) in the neighboring region. The area around the area was the most beautiful area I've seen in Ukraine--no ugly buildings, decrepit roads, or factories there
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| The view of the main church area |
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| Walking toward the cathedrals |
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| I found Taco Bird. He's converted to Russian Orthodoxy and took monastic vows. |
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| Awesome wooden church on one of the hilltops |
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| My counterpart and Zhenya from my 6G class, who asked right before this if it was true this was a "balcony of death" (балкон смерти, balkon smerti) |
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| View of Artem, who has a statue on the neighboring mountain. Never found out who he was beyond "Soviet revolutionary." |
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| View from Zhenya's balcony of death |
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| A war monument? What a shock |
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| More monuments to heroes of the Soviet Union? How original! |
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| Artem was a big guy and had interesting tastes in fashion, apparently |
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| View of the town of Svyatogorsk |
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| Top of Artem's peak, looking down at the lavra |
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| Artem's memorial |
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