Trukhaniv Island
Wooded river island of sandy beaches and trails, reached by a footbridge across the river.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Trukhaniv Island in Kyiv follows a six-year-old girl named Lina Kostenko, who moved here in the nineteen-thirties, long before she became one of Ukraine's best-loved poets. It asks how a river island once home to thousands became a place of beaches and woods with no one living on it. Along the way you'll hear why locals called their neighbourhood Kyiv's Venice, and what every family kept beneath the floor. Best heard on the paths near the water's edge.
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