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Kharkiv - a Very Cossack City

Wandering the Edge by Larysa Zariczniak

Mar 15, 202600:30:31History

Kharkiv is Ukraine's second city - second largest, second populous but certainly not the so-called "young city" that Soviet myths like to fantasize. It's old. Older than the 17th century the Russian Empire liked to think...

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Kharkiv - a Very Cossack City is an episode from Wandering the Edge by Larysa Zariczniak. Kharkiv is Ukraine's second city - second largest, second populous but certainly not the so-called "young city" that Soviet myths like to fantasize. I...

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