alluvial sands
Pale sand dunes pumped onto lakeside floodplain for towers that never rose, now an urban desert.
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This guide to the sand dunes of southern Kyiv, locals' desert on Poznyaky, starts with a handful of pale sand and asks how it came to sit on a floodplain of lakes. It follows a bank called Arkada, the families who paid for flats before they existed, and a housing project with a patriotic name. Best heard standing on the dunes, facing the lakes beyond.
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