Kyiv Crematorium
Curving white concrete farewell halls beside a vast relief wall once buried under Soviet concrete.
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This guide to the Kyiv Crematorium on Baikove Hill starts on a spring morning in March 1982, with the sound of machinery at work beside the white farewell halls. It turns back to Ada Rybachuk, Volodymyr Melnychenko and Avraam Miletsky, and to their belief that a building could help mourners carry grief in a city that remembered Babyn Yar. Best heard standing in front of the curving halls, with the long wall beside you.
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