#Dnipro beach

[vintage-ukraine]

In Hydropark by Leonid Chychkan, 1970s

[surfingkaliyuga]

“Surf Kali Yuga“ mural created by the Olifant Surfing Club on July 3rd, 2020 in Dnipro, Ukraine.

I wish I could simply enjoy seeing my logo painted on a wall somewhere in a country right behind our eastern border. Unfortunately, the artist behind the project, Artem “Jesus“ Murakhovsky, was killed in action defending his homeland from the Russian invaders.

I was always aware of the initiatives popping up here and there and bearing either my name or my logo, but the Olifant Surfing Club was not one them. I must admit that I deeply regret not learning about them earlier and not contacting Artem. Even if only to compliment his work, because while I greatly appreciate my logo in this form, he painted many better things later in his street art career.

From what I could gather about him he was born May 3rd, 1993, and he was a lifelong denizen of Dnipro. He held a degree in computer programming and another in mathematics from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. As a militant nationalist he participated in Maidan and was injured during a fight with Titushky. Later he joined the Azov Regiment for a tour of duty. After the Russian invasion he volunteered for the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade "Sicheslav". On March 20th, 2022, he died during combat in Avdiivka, a tank shelled his position while he was preparing to throw a grenade. His parents, Valentina and Oleksandr, gave a short interview for Le Monde after his death, he was also survived by his siblings and a fiancée.

Reducing someone's life to a few bullet points feels unnatural, but, regrettably, I can't add anything personal, as I didn't know Artem. But we shared common values and he stumbled upon a concept and a piece of graphic design I threw out into the wider Internet all those years ago. Writing a few sentences about him is all I can do now, but in the unlikely event I ever visit Dnipro I'll be sure to visit his final resting place.

Surfers never die, they just relocate to the beaches of Valhalla.

[suratan-zir]

I spent the last day of summer just as I spent most of it - swimming in the lovely green waters of the Dnipro river. I thought I wouldn’t be able to, I’ve been very sick for the last month. First, it was covid, then I got re-infected again when my husband got sick, and it messed with my condition pretty badly. It’s still hard to breathe, and my chest bone kind of hurts, dunno what's up with that. I can’t walk long distances, which is a bummer because that’s mostly how I deal with suicidal moods and general feel of hopelessness. But I can walk a little bit! Fortunately, it was enough to get to the “secret” beach.

We’ve lived here for nearly three years now and know this place well. Even on the weekends, in good weather, when campers or fishers are everywhere, we still know a few secluded spots with no people around.

Even though I’m weak, it was worth the struggle of walking. You know when you were a kid, and your mother would tell you, “Time to get out of the water, your lips are turning blue!”? But then later, when you grew up, you learned to appreciate just chilling by the water without being in it all the time? I never did. I never grew out of it. I learned to swim kind of late, at 13, but I love swimming like nothing else. I can swim for hours and still not get bored or tired. It’s like all my problems don’t exist when I’m in the water. I only wish it was my love, the Sea of Azov, but russia stole it.

Anyway, when we were heading back home, it was bee-utiful. We had to walk through the abandoned children’s summer camp (the one where we rescued the turtle last fall - if you remember, you remember), and I accidentally found a wild bee nest in between the bricks. I heard buzzing.

This put me in a bee-searching rush. I remembered that a few months back, we saw crumbled honeycombs on these abandoned campgrounds, so I figured there must be more bees.

In this camp, there are a bunch of small wooden houses, kind of like trailers - some of them already completely ruined, but many still somewhat intact. Somehow, I pointed at the exact house that I was looking for. I said, "It’s a perfect place for bees: weatherproofed, with a lot of entrance points…" Then we saw a bee flying in. So we followed her and saw this - a whole freaking makeshift beehive. Full of bees. And on the other side, there was a boat.

So someone saw an abandoned structure, which still very much has an owner. This territory was bought by someone, and they already started construction there, demolishing some buildings. They also wrote in large letters that they will kick the ass of trespassers and throw them in jail for looting. No one cares. Then, with the beginning of the invasion, construction stopped. But yeah, the audacity of just starting their own little beekeeping thing and storing their stuff there, it’s kind of hilarious.

Overall, it was a great birthday (it wasn’t technically my birthday, but it kind of still counts). My birthdays usually suck, so that’s rare.

Thanks for listening to me rambling about nothing <3

[opticandmasturbation]

Early life— Janet Sobel was born as Jennie Olechovsky in 1893 in Katerynoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine). Her father, Baruch Olechovsky, was killed in a pogrom. In 1908, Sobel moved to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn with her mother, Fannie Kinchuk, a midwife, and her siblings. Two years later, she married Max Sobel, a fellow emigrant from Ukraine, with whom she had five children

—wiki

[sleepymarmot]

Janet Sobel was already a mother of five and a grandmother when she took up painting in her Brighton Beach apartment in 1939. With no prior artistic training, she felt the urge to create and began using one of her sons’ art materials, painting on scraps of paper, the backs of envelopes, pieces of cardboard, and seashells found on the beach. Recognizing his mother’s talent, Sol Sobel introduced her paintings to artists and writers such as Max Ernst, John Dewey, and Sidney Janis, who quickly championed her work. Within just a few years, Sobel had participated in several group exhibitions and was given two solo gallery shows in New York. Born Jennie Lechovsky in a shtetl near Ekaterinoslav in Russia (now Dnipro in Ukraine), Sobel and her family emigrated to the United States in 1908, after her father was killed in a Russian pogrom. The motifs of her figurative paintings often relied on memories of her childhood: floral patterns that draw on Ukrainian folk art, regional costumes, traditional Jewish families, soldiers with cannons, and imperial armies. Sobel saw these figures as symbolic beings and often filled the spaces around them with whirling colorful designs. Experimenting with unusual materials such as glass and sand in her paintings, Sobel also turned to self-invented automatic techniques that resulted in abstract allover compositions, with paint dripped in spatters and continuous looping lines. According to her son, Sobel worked “freely and rapidly” when making enamel paintings such as Milky Way or Untitled. “She would prepare a ‘ground’ which would invariably suggest or trigger some ‘idea’ for her,” he said, “whose sudden conception was matched by an equally rapid execution. In her efforts to pin down her conception, she would pour the paint, tip the canvas, blow the wet lacquer, and if you had the misfortune to be too close—she would use your shirt sleeve as a daub.” Sobel’s automatic methods were praised by critics, who compared them to those of the Surrealists. But when she was asked about her interest in art, Sobel responded, “No, I never went to museums much. I didn’t have time and I didn’t understand these things. But I always read books…and I love music…. I don’t think ever I [sic] would paint a picture without music to listen to. All humans must have something like that, that warms them inside.” Sobel’s surprisingly rapid rise to fame in the New York art world was followed by an almost equally sudden disappearance from it, when she and her family moved to Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1947. Now farther from the city, Sobel also developed an allergy to paint, which led her to work primarily in crayon, ink, and pencil after 1948. Years later, in 1961, the art critic Clement Greenberg would write that, in the 1940s, he and Jackson Pollock “had noticed one or two curious paintings…by a ‘primitive’ painter, Janet Sobel.” Greenberg described Sobel’s works as “the first really ‘all-over’ one [he] had ever seen,” adding that “Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him.” From then on, Sobel’s practice was mostly framed in relation to Pollock’s career, so that by the time of her death in 1968, she was little more than an anecdote, primarily known as the self-taught “housewife” who happened to have dripped paint on a canvas before him. — MoMA

Milky Way

Untitled

The Burning Bush

The Illusion of Solidity

[mlleclaudine]

Ukrainian Artist Captures the Beauty and Power of the Ocean in Sweeping Oil Paintings

by Regina Sienra - My Modern Met, June 17, 2024

Capturing the intricacies of the sea is no easy feat. There's a myriad of shades of blue on a single landscape, plus the splashes of water and the movement of seafoam. And yet, Ukrainian artist Alexandra Velichko does it perfectly in every single one of her works. Zooming in on breaking waves and beach scenes, the painter captures both the beauty and power of the ocean in her sweeping oil paintings.

Velichko started her creative journey in 2014. While she hadn't painted with oil before that, she had completed an academic drawing course. Now, she is decidedly an oil painter. “I tried a little bit of watercolor, acrylic, and pastels, but the feelings that oil painting gives me cannot be compared to anything else; it’s so alive and tasty to work with,” she tells My Modern Met. “I work [in a] realism style, but over the years, I prefer to add more texture strokes to my painting. Sometimes a few parts have an abstract feeling, especially when I paint foam.”

Based out of Kyiv, Velichko hasn't been able to get to the sea as often as she'd like. “I traveled a lot, especially before 2022. Every time I'd take my camera with me and make hundreds of reference photos that I could use later, but all them are nothing without the feelings that I got by standing on the shore, or on the deck of sailing boat.” Sadly, this changed with the war. “I haven’t left my home since the war started. Only this year, in February I allowed myself a little vacation to Portugal. It is not easy to travel now because our airports are closed for civilian flights and I have to go by car to the airport in a neighboring European country.”

Fortunately, her home in Kyiv is on a bank of the main river of Ukraine Dnipro and she gets to see a body of water when she wakes up and goes to sleep. “But my heart belongs to the sea, I am a professional diver and adore sailing,” she confesses. After all, Velichko describes the main influence of her paintings as “nature, definitely nature with its own beauty, power and strength.”

While Velichko has now moved away from hyperrealism, her goal remains the same. “I want my viewers to feel the salty air of breeze, to imagine how it feels to live next to the ocean even if you don’t,” she says.

To stay up to date with her creations, you can follow Velichko on Instagram.

Alexandra Velichko: Website | Instagram

[marykk1990]

And my next post in support of Ukraine.

Next site, Park Sosnovvy Bir in Cherkasy, Cherkasy Oblast. Founded in 1967, this park covers an area of about 124 acres and sits on the Dnipro River. The park has a created system of ponds and waterfalls that descend to the river. There's also rock gardens & over 70 species of exotic plants from seedlings from botanical gardens in Ukraine and other places, a children's area, and beaches on the Dnipro River.

#StandWithUkraine

#SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦🌻

[bookingtwosblog]

Located in the heart of Kyiv's historic Podil district, Radisson Blu Hotel, Kyiv Podil City Centre offers a luxurious and modern stay experience. With stunning views of the Dnipro River and the city skyline, the hotel boasts elegant rooms, a rooftop terrace, and a fitness center. Guests can indulge in delicious cuisine at the on-site restaurant or relax with a cocktail at the bar. The hotel's central location provides easy access to popular attractions, shopping, and dining options.

For details: Bookingtwo.com

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#RadissonBlu #KyivPodil #LuxuryStay #CityCentre #ExploreKyiv

[bogdansavchenko]

Знову вертаємося до пленеру.

Черкаси - місто, розташоване на правому березі Дніпра. Кременчуцьке водосховище є абсолютно величезним, воно простягається навколо мого міста приблизно на 15 км в ширину. Тому не дивно, що в цьому місті багато завзятих рибалок. Це заняття надзвичайно популярне серед місцевих жителів цілий рік, і майже кожного дня ви побачите когось, хто стоїть на пірсі або на пляжі, намагаючись щось зловити або просто розслабляючись, дивлячись на безтурботні води. Я сам неабияк захоплююся цим заняттям, тому мені принесло величезну радість закарбувати моїх колег на картині.

Cherkasy is a city situated on the right bank of the Dnipro River. The Kremenchuk reservoir is absolutely massive, stretching around my city for approximately 15 km in width. Hence, it's no surprise that there's an abundance of avid anglers in this town. This pastime is tremendously popular among the locals all year round, and nearly every day, you'll find someone standing by the pier or on the beach, trying to catch something or simply unwinding, gazing upon the serene waters. I myself hold a keen interest in this activity, which is why it brought me immense joy to capture my colleagues in a painting.

[nature-scares-me]

[vintage-ukraine]

Beach in Kyiv, 1969

[everyday1photo]

A beach on Dnipro

[szilvesztergajdacs]

#kiev #kyiv #ukraine #instakyiv #instaukraine #visitkyiv #visitukraine #easterneurope #dnipro #sunset #beach #holiday (at Kyiv, Ukraine) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3HLVHspM5I/?igshid=1wcl17egbnk93

[michalsierakowski]

Kyiv, October 2017

[theliverpudlianuk]

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Putin Rocked By Devastating Overnight Explosions INSIDE Russia as Zelensky Wreaks Havoc

EXPRESS.UK |  8/20/2022 — VLADIMIR PUTIN has been rocked by explosions overnight near military bases deep within Russian-held areas of Ukraine and inside Russia, in a display of Kyiv's growing ability to wreak havoc far from the front lines.

Image via Twitter @igorsushko: Russia has been rocked by more explosions 

In Crimea — the peninsula Russia seized and annexed in 2014 — explosions were reported near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. On the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky was also lit up at Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Putin's forces said was fire from its air defences.  Inside Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at an ammunition dump in Belgorod province, near the Ukrainian border but more than 60 miles from territory controlled by Zelensky's forces. 

Photo © GETTY Images: Putin has been rocked by more explosions

Kyiv has withheld official comment on incidents in Crimea or inside Russia, while hinting that it was behind them, using long-range weapons or sabotage.  But it adds to growing signs President Volodymyr Zelensky's troops are stepping up their battle to hammer Putin far from the front lines following his illegal invasion of Ukraine back in February.  Russian officials said there were no injuries reported in Crimea or Belgorod.  The Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, is the main supply route for its forces in southern Ukraine and the base for its Black Sea fleet.  

Photo © GETTY Images: Zelensky is continuing his battle against Russian forces

They said they had shot down drones in Belbek and Kerch, and confirmed that they had ordered the evacuation of two villages in Belgorod where they were investigating the cause of a fire. Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt posted a video showing huge flames and smoke in the night sky, purportedly at the Russian base in Belbek, saying: "It certainly looks bad — or good — dependent on the perspective." Ukraine hopes its apparent new-found ability to hit Russian targets behind the front line can turn the tide in the conflict, disrupting supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation.

Map © EXPRESS: Russia vs Ukraine war zone mapped

In recent days, it has been issuing warnings to Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe as long as it is occupied. Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced a number of strikes overnight behind Russian lines in southern Kherson province, including at a bridge at the Kakhovska Dam, one of the last routes for Russia to supply thousands of troops on west bank of the Dnipro River. Seriy Khlan, a member of Kherson's regional council disbanded by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook: "The Ukrainian armed forces treated the Russians to a magical evening."

Photo © GETTY Images: UK Howitzers sent to Ukraine Army and effective

Last week, a Russian air base on the Crimean coast was hit by simultaneous blasts that destroyed warplanes and left huge impact craters visible from space. Tourists were photographed at nearby beaches, staring up from cabanas at huge mushroom clouds in the sky. Since last month, Ukraine has been making use of advanced rockets supplied by the West to strike behind Russian lines. The overnight explosions in Crimea and Belgorod are beyond the range of ammunition Western countries have acknowledged sending so far.

Photo via @chp_sevastopol:  Explosion rocked Sevastopol in annexed Crimea 

Meanwhile, Russian forces have stepped up their shelling of civilian areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, in recent days, in what British intelligence described as an apparent attempt to force Ukraine to keep troops in the area. Seventeen people were killed and 42 wounded in two separate Russian attacks there in the past two days. Five more rockets hit the city early on Friday killing at least one person. Moscow denies targeting civilians.

Photo © GETTY Images: Residents evacuating the village of Mayskoye, Crimea

Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, saying it aimed to demilitarise Ukraine and protect Russian speakers on what President Vladimir Putin called historical Russian land. Ukraine and Western countries view it as a war of conquest aimed at wiping out Kyiv's national identity.

Photo © GETTY Images:  Russia launched an illegal invasion of Ukraine in February

Read more of Ukraine War News on EXPRESS + Watch VIDEO: “Russian Ammunition Warehouse Erupts in Huge Fireball” 

▶️  https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1657487/Putin-Russia-explosion-military-bases-picture-video-Belgorod-Volodymyr-Zelensky-Ukraine