Back in the (former) УССР

From Moscow to Kyiv on June 23, 2014 (by plane)

Today I arrived in Kyiv where I was greeted by my first river views of the Dnieper (since my previous trip to Kyiv two years ago) and another friend and colleague from the Harvard History Department, Beth Kerley (I took over the apartment she had been renting since April). The apartment is absolutely perfect (in the Pechersk neighborhood of Kyiv and directly across the street from the metro, two doors down from TsDAGO, the Central State Archive of Public Organizations and three metro stops away from TsDAMLM, the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art).

Having arrived in the evening... the business of getting down to business can wait until tomorrow... (I'll be in Kyiv until I fly to Kharkiv on July 11, 2014)

*УССР [oo-ess-ess-err] was the abbreviated name, in Russian, for the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-1991)