The underground Styx runs for 224 metres. Unlike the other, natural rivers in karst layers where pleasure trips are held, there is no artificial illumination there. Scanty dim sunlight forces its way through a few apertures in the granite ceiling. How mysterious the banks of this river look; it’s even hard to imagine that they [...]

The world knows many masterpieces of landscape gardening, and it takes a lot of courage to pick out one as a unique pearl. But speaking about the Sofiyivka we can say with certainty that it undoubtedly ranks high among them. Few works of landscape architecture can rival it in the amount of legends and romantic [...]

Some photos of Flowers of the Mountain Crimea. These photographs were obtained during a walk on the mountain Ayu-Dag in March 2009.

Alushta  is a resort town in Crimea, Ukraine, founded in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian. It is situated on the Black Sea on the road from Gurzuf to Sudak. In March 2009 we went to Ayu-Dag, one of the mountains of Crimea.  It is located near the city of Alushta. These pictures were taken [...]

These photos are taken in winter 2009 near Cave City Mangup-Kale.    

This is the first post in my blog, I want to share photos of Odessa seaport made ​​in the spring of 2009.   Later I will publish some more photos of the Odessa port.  Thank you for visiting my blog!