Articles tagged with Kharkiv

New Design for the Metro Line Map

The metro has a new design for the metro line map. Now every station has its own icon (a pictogram, that is). I dare say this is a kind of innovation. As far as I know, there’s nothing else like it anywhere in the world.

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Proletarska — a hammer and …

Reading Kharkiv News

Let’s talk about Kharkiv news. But not about events in our glorious city—about Internet news services. Since I rarely get to watch TV the window into Hell, I subscribed to several online news feeds. Let’s go through each of them.

Kharkiv Metro Questionnaire

Yesterday I read in the news:

Voting in the metro is taking place for the first time, Viktoria Belan, press secretary of the municipal enterprise Kharkiv Metro, told MediaPort. The purpose of the event is to find out whether Kharkiv residents are satisfied with how the subway is run.

The …

Shocking Traffic Accident in Kharkiv

On the first day of the last month of autumn, a terrible traffic accident occurred in Kharkiv.

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A streetlight pole, traveling in the left lane in violation of the speed limit, decided to perform a maneuver prohibited on this section of the highway: overtaking a car. After crossing the double …

Do You Even Watch Where You’re Stepping?

Hey, you! Yes, I’m talking to you! Do you even watch where you’re stepping? What did you just step on?

A manhole cover. An ordinary sewer manhole cover. And how many kinds of manhole covers can you name? Two? Three?

Today a colleague from Wikipedia tossed me a …

Marketing Merchandising

The other day I walk into the Klass supermarket on Zubarev St. and see this:

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Buying six bottles of beer at once in a pack is a good deal for those drunks who can’t multiply 2.99 by six in their heads. Though maybe by “good deal” they mean …

Death Toll II

And now there are fewer than 46 million of us:

*Ukraine’s population decreased by 65,770 people in August 2010 and as of September 1 stood at 45,831,408 people. *

http://www.objectiv.tv/181010/48149.html

I still remember the public service ads in the early 90s …

Monument

Information is an invaluable resource for an animal, a bird, a fish, and all the more so for a human. As soon as the fish grasped the importance of information and knowledge, of accumulating and preserving them, it began its path of evolution.

Meanwhile, the fund has already raised UAH …