Kyiv

After more than three years away from Ukraine, it was finally time for me to come back and finally see what Kyiv is like in the middle of the winter. The following pictures have been taken over the course of six weeks.

Sunset on Bulvarno-Kudriavska Street

Parked car in a snowy alleyway

A man walking through Pavlivsʹkyy Sadok park

St. Michael's Monastery

Friendship of Nations Arch

View on Podil from the Friendship of Nations Arch

Podil

Recital at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine

People attending at the philharmonic recital

Statue at Taras Shevchenko Park

Chekhovs'kyi street

Observatornyi street

Crows flying overhead Assumption Cathedral

A family taking pictures from a viewpoint above the Dnieper

Landscape Alley

A man taking pictures from St. Andrew's Church

Podil and Rybalskyi Peninsula

A woman and young child in Volodymyrska Hill park

Statue of Cossacks under the Friendship of Nations Arch

View on the Dnieper from Parkova Doroha

Odessa

Woman walking along side the Black Sea

Old man strolling on the beach

Teenager feeding the seagulls 

King Kong guarding the entrance of Odessa's Fair 

Swan sitting peacefully on the a pool in the middle of the near empty Fair

Old couple wondering into the darkness of Tarasa Shevchenka Park

Port of Odessa

Celebrations on Maidan Square

Pictures of the celebrations that took place last Sunday night in the city center of Kyiv

Teens playing in hay as two volunteers walk by on the middle of Maidan Square 

Cossacks  musician making people dance on Maidan