Bessarabian market
Glass-roofed Art Nouveau market hall from 1912, stacked with salo, pickles, meat and local produce.
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This guide to the Bessarabian Market in Kyiv starts at a salo counter on a cold day in two thousand eight, where a reporter came to learn how locals choose cured pork fat and a saleswoman had strong opinions. It reaches back to the glass-roofed hall that opened in nineteen twelve and to Lazar Brodsky, the sugar magnate whose will paid for it. Best heard standing among the meat and salo counters in the main hall.
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