Rusanivka
Man-made island estate of Soviet tower blocks on river-washed sand, ringed by a canal and fountains.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rusanivka in Kyiv is about the ground itself: a low floodplain on the Dnipro's left bank, and the engineers who set out in the early nineteen sixties to make it fit for tower blocks. It follows the dredgers, the canal and the bridges that shaped this island estate, and the Venice-style dream Soviet planners once had for it. Best heard on the embankment, with the canal beside you and the right-bank hills across the river.
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