A vital industrial center of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk was one of the key centers of the nuclear arms and space industries of the former CCCP. In particular, it is home to Yuhzmash, a major space and ballistic missile designer and manufacturer. Because of its military industry, the city was a closed city until the 1990s. Many people told me about this , but I could not imagine how it was back in the days. Anyway they say that it was closed for foreigners but , still this is enough. There is one of the biggest missle manufacturer from the Soviet Union so they had to protect somehow this kind of information.
The major streets of the city were renamed in honour of Marxist heroes during the Soviet era. The central thoroughfare is known as Karl Marx Prospekt, a wide and long boulevard that stretches east to west through the centre of the city.
Crazy kids doing bath on freezing day .
the landmak of Dnipr
It has also a subway , is one of the 3 cities in Ukraine that have a metro Kiev , Dnipr and Harchiv. But Dnipropetrovsk's subway has only 6 stations and it's more or less useless , because it conects the railstation to one of the sleeping neighbourhoods. I still haven't used it.
The streets aren't that wide as other cities and not that clean , even though the city is a financial center and you could see almost everywere Hummers around.
Europa SquareUntil now I have seen two fights on the street , so it seems that the stereotipes are a little bit true on one part . The first one was really scary , a gang of guys camed out from a car and start beating 2 guys, I haven't seen the beggining neither the finnish , but I hope no one got serious injuries . They used bottles and fired a gun to scare the guys , I thought that is only in the movies but it seems that reality strikes worst.
The other one was kindof funny , I watched while my group was buing shaorma , they seemed to be friends , but one of them really really drunk keept trying to beat the other , this last one a little bit more sober tried to calm him down and to dress him but in his knd of way so they kept beating each other right in the middle of the center not very far away from the other fight that tooked place 2 days earlier.
Speaking about shaorma , this food seems to be everywere in the world . Cheap and good, for one Balsoia ( big one ) you should pay between 12 and 15 hrivnas , like 6 lei or 1 and a 1/2 Euro.
i do not understand actually what's their thing in putting carrots in everything they eat. The taste is rather sweet and not so tasty as ours. Also this is the first time when I eat shaorma with cheese and mushrooms , I think after all anything could fit in but depends...
