Photographer's Note
There are view from my window (many years ago) to Medical Institute direction...
Photo was taken in 1986 as color slide, after then, in 2005, slide was scan to digital format and convert to BW.
Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhye), capital of Zaporizhzhya region, in Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper River, opposite the island of Khortytsya. The city, founded in 1770 on the site of the Zaporizhzhya Cossack camp, consists of old Zaporizhzhya (called Aleksandrovsk before 1921) and the new industrial Zaporizhzhya, which developed during the 1930s and adjoins the Dniprohes installations and the port of Lenin.
It is a major rail junction and industrial center and the site of the Dniprohes dam and power station, one of the country's largest hydroelectric plants. Large quantities of grain are exported. The city has steel mills, coking plants, aluminum and magnesium works, and factories that produce automobiles, farm machinery, and transformers.
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worldcitizen
(15988) 2006-06-01 20:21
Hello Alex,
I really like the mood of this photo. The POV, looking through the empty branches towards the buildings gives a nostalgic and somber feeling. The B/W is great. This shot conveys the atmosphere of this city as an industrial center.
Photo Information
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Copyright: Alex Shainshein (s_a_s_h_a)
(607)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Black & White
- Date Taken: 1986-00-00
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Zenit ET
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Theme(s): Zaporozhye, Black & White [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2006-06-01 18:06