Sunday, March 2, 2014
These are pretty old, but I wanted to put up some photographs documenting what a special and beautiful place the Crimea is.
I've made two trips to the Crimea in my life. The first time was in 1994, a couple of years after I'd started living in Istanbul. It was part of a ten-week trip that I took through Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova, but unfortunately my camera was stolen in Varna, Bulgaria on my way back to Istanbul and with it all of my undeveloped film.
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The second trip to the Crimea came in graduate school as part o CAORC-sponsored research trip to Istanbul and Simferopol, the Crimea's republican capital. I lived in Simferopol for six weeks in July and August of 2006. While Simferopol is a pretty drab and dusty place, the mountains and coastline of the Crimea is really incredible.
Below are a few shots from that 2006 trip, and here is a link to the page on my website where more can be found.
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Inside the palace in Bahçesaray |
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The mountains running east to west across Crimea are stunning |
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Leaving Yalta in a jetty in 2006. |
Go here if you're interested in seeing more photos.
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Also see:
More Thoughts on the Crimea
Crimea on the Brink: What's Going On?
South Ossetia and the Fate of the Mini-Republics
More thoughts on South Ossetia
Obama, Russia and the Middle East
Trouble in Ukraine
Beating the War Drums Again
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More links and analysis to be found at the Borderlands Lounge.
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