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Southern Railway Station
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Kharkiv station is a stage of meetings and partings — governors, artists, war and peacetime bustle.
Tales
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анекдотбез даты · Центр
FEED ME!
The young but ambitious Kharkiv poet Mykhailo Holodny dreamed of meeting V. Mayakovsky, but nothing worked out. He was unlucky enough not to meet him even during one of Mayakovsky's visits…
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анекдотбез даты · Центр
AN INCIDENT IN A CARRIAGE
Once Pavlo Mykhailovych saw off a group of actor friends at the station—they were leaving Kharkiv for Sumy on tour. They said goodbye in the carriage. They talked so much they did not notice the train moving off. Then the conduct…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
A FALSE SUMMONS
In early December 1933 Ostap Vyshnia received a telegram from a gamekeeper he knew. The man invited him to his district for a hunt, promising especially good game. Pavlo Mykhailovych was tempted by the offer and st…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
IN "THE TWELVE CHAIRS"
"A noisy city—the center of the Ukrainian republic. After the provinces it seems as if you've gone abroad," wrote a certain traveler in cassock to his wife Kateryna Oleksandrivna while at the Kharkiv station…
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байкабез даты · Центр
THANKS FOR THE GREETING
"Shortly before the Great Patriotic War the American writer Erskine Caldwell visited Kharkiv. Four Kharkiv writers came to the station to meet the foreign guest. Among them only Yurii Ko…
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анекдотсоветский Харьков · Центр
KOROTICH, GIVE THEM HELL!
Such a banner greeted Vitaly Korotich — editor-in-chief of Ogoniok magazine — at the Southern Station in March 1988 when he arrived in our city. At the time it was the sharpest, perhaps the only periodical…”
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