Happy New Year!  

 BY  S O L O

My warmest congratulations to all people live at the shores of the Black Sea – the best sea in the world! Last day of October is marked as an International Black Sea Day. In the year 1996 six countries from Black Sea region (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine) had approved “The Strategic Plan on Rehabilitation and Protection of the Black Sea”. This Plan was created after the long process of researches and studies of the Black Sea’s biosphere.

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Needlework from Olga Solodukha

The girl-friend of the Mauve Hare is missing her sweetheart.

They should be together and combine the pink heart – this heart is completely like

the real one: it is also can fall in love

Information Supermarket The Atrium

Informational Supermarket “The Atrium” has a lot of interesting ideas for your interior. Most of these things are handmade.

For example this mini sewing machine is a nice present for any professional seamstress, dressmaker, fashion designer or modeler…

and for an amateur too :)

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

Café-gallery ‘Mad Tea-party’ invites all of us to taste a new cheesecake:

delicate cheese soufflé with the bright taste of orange zest rest on the

crispy chocolate basement. And the top of this construction is nicely decorated

with natural jelly made from fresh fruits

and blackberries.  

Photographer Sergey Krush

This photo brings me up an association with

one song by the rock-band “Aria” called “Somewhere in the high…”.

Clouds start to twirling and pull into a huge sky whirlpool.

Sevastopol Paintress Elena Melkova

This wonderful aquarelle reminds me Indian painting on silk.

The colors are so vivid and bright, you can fell the flower smell… I think it’s a tulip’s smell – my favorite flowers.

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

“The Mad Tea-party” introduces:

a new vegetable pie “Ratatouille”! It combines juicy and airiness of fresh vegetables

and minimum calories. “The Mad Tea-party” is concerned about our shape! 

Information Supermarket The Atrium

I like coffee very much and this Coffee-Fairy is really inspiring me!

She is so magic and cosy at the same time; her pockets are full of magic coffee-beans;

she can tell a lot of magic stories to children

(but only when adults are absent – it is well-known fact: adults can’t see any magic!)

Photographer Sergey Krush

                                      Evening glow in Crimea -  colors of tropic!

 

Needlework from Olga Solodukha

 

He is not a glutton!

He is simply tasting - only one caviar-berry. And I am asking the question:

is this a real open-sandwich?

If yes – I am also tasting a piece!

Needlework from Olga Solodukha

Olga makes her sweet funny souvenirs with the technique of milling –

the most fluffy and homely technique of all known, may be.

Little Penguin is waiting for his master – the only, who will feed it with tasty fish and

takes for a wonderful walk – even at his own balcony.

Sevastopol Paintress Elena Melkova

Stylish about Paris.
Aquarelle. I like this interesting technique very much.
Some deliberately casual paintbrush strokes – and well-known shapes of
romantic city appear at the paper. 
It seems twisted from mist and violet petals.

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

News again from “Mad tea-party”!

New product for our customers: a spinach pie on an extremely thin pastry.

I am sure: this is Maddeningly tasty!!!

Cultural program for this month

September is now at the calendar. Autumn, school, summer season of rest and vacations is over...But look around: there are a lot of interesting events are waiting for us in Sevastopol. Cultural program for this month could satisfy even the most refined taste!

September 4th. Austrian Symphony Orchestra in the framework of Ukrainian tour performs at Sevastopol Center of Culture and Art - SCCA (Lenin street, 25). Concert includes music by W.A. Mozart and J.Strauss.

September 5th. At the same place "The World Talents" Fund will present us concert of Russian baritones from the State Academic Russian Grand Theatre - famous "The Bolshoy Theater": D.Skorikov, D. Gviniadze and S.Pljusnin. This concert "My melody is my love" is devoted to the 70th Jubilee of famous Russian opera singer Muslim Magomaev. I think, this should be a splendid show.

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  One more Stylish Interesting Person on our pages
Sevastopol Kendo-group Kensei 

The martial arts have its own very special style - in technics,
equipment, apparel, and also in behavior and etiquette...
Sevastopol group "Kensei" is studying Japanese swordsmanship
technics. Some weeks ago these guys had brought home three
sho-dan title from the International
Kendo Seminar being held in Kharkiv (Ukraine)!

Sevastopol swordsmen were certificated by the international
commission of the four leading Kendo masters from the European Kendo
Federation and by the head of this Federation Кendo Master Sumi
sensei (Kendo, 8th Dan, maximum for today in this martial art).
You can find more about this extremely beautiful and unique art and
about Sevastopol swordsmen at the group page in the social network
VKontakte.

And for me very interesting was this information: Sevastopol
Kendo-group Kensei took part at the film by Sergey Bodrov-senior "The
Yakuza Daughter". Here you can find pictures from the film set.
To this film as a consultant was invited Iaido sensei Takasi Kuroki.
Actress Chika Arakava did all the trainings together with the Kensei
group in spite of the very cold weather during filming.

Sevastopol Paintress Elena Melkova

I was charmed with this landscape:

it is at the same time so realistic and so airy-joyful. It is easy to imaging myself walking by the old streets of Prague, breathing its’ fresh air, visiting numerous sweet shops…

It is so real, but so dreaming at once…

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

‘Mad Tea-party’ delight us with the renewed lasagna.

If you are curious enough, on the café’s site you can find some curious facts about the term “lasagna”. And when you move from the internet space of  “Mad tea-party’ to the real one, you will be impressed by its interior.

It is not café, it is the Cheshire Cat’s house – slightly mad,

but at the same time very wise!

Photographer Sergey Krush

An autumn of amber and gold,

filigree worked out every tree, every stone and a river.

It seems that every leaf, twig and blade of grass – everyone has its own voice.

And all these piccolo voices are merging into the harmony-sounded chorus. 

You can easily call this photography painting…

or melody of colors – at your own choice.

S O L O

Congratulations to everybody!

 Today on the July 29^th Sevastopol celebrates the double holiday: Holiday of the Ukrainian Fleet and holiday of the Russian Navy.

The city of Sevastopol is a naval city from its foundation, it was a hero naval base at the World War II and in the USSR period; now it is a base for two national Navies – Russian and Ukrainian one. Thus the Fleet Day here is almost equal to the city birthday and we celebrate it with a proper range and enthusiasm. How is invited to the fest – everybody from local citizens to visitors from all parts of the Ukraine and from abroad. Tickets to Sevastopol for this day are usually bought up weeks before.

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Sevastopol Paintress Elena Melkova

 

Let me assume:

these are cocktail cups – for mint refreshing mojito,

or chilly strawberry mojito…

for something very-very summer anyway.

S O L O

Our today week-end rout travel is: Cape Fiolent - St. George’s Monastery - Jasper Beach

Sure, the best time for this route is summer: sea-swimming at Fiolent is simply amazing!

To get to the point is quite easy: by autobus #3 from the bus stop at the “Balaklava Roadway, 5^th km” and from square “50^th Anniversary of the USSR” or by autobus #19 from square “50^th Anniversary of the USSR”. Get out at the bus stop “St. George’s Monastery” and follow the signs. Moreover, at summer time every 2 hours there is boat from Balaklava that brings the most lazy travelers right to the beach. But if you are a real traveler in your soul, you’ll pass this entire route on your own. And you will be rewarded with the unforgettable impressions!

Now we are at the bus stop “Monastery”. A dirt road is passing up, twisting among private cottages and finishing at the wide tableland. On the left you can see the St. George’s Monastery. For a long time it was in rather neglected conditions, but at the last years it is again restoring and re-building.

The first view-point is situated right at the top of the tableland more than 200m above the sea level. Perfect view: blue half-circle of the bay framed with emerald green trees. On the right the motley horn of the Cape Fiolent is piercing the sea. This Cape provides its name to the all region around it. Two rocks in the sea near it – The Orestes and The Pylades – are from black stone, but seems whitish because the deposit of salt on it. On the left you can see the golden cupola of the Monastery’s temple. And in the center of the bay, like a folded back of the huge animal, stands on the St. Appearing Rock. The big, 7 meters high, cross stands on the top of it.

Let me tell you some details about this place.

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

 

Shifting broadcast channels this evening I was stumbled

at the play-by-play reportage from Bolshaya Morskaya str. #12:

“Attention to everybody! Hot news from the “Mad tea-party”! For the first time in our café a new hit: delicate cream puffs! You can think: just usual puffs, nothing special…

But! This is the cream puffs!!!

This is divinely!!! I’ve tasted it yesterday, and now I am strongly convinced:

the real luxury exist! 

Extremely successful combination of classic milk pudding and mascarpone cheese creates a new Universe – Universe of Unique cream taste! And you can mix this Universal puffs with anything you like: coffee, tea, even hot chocolate!”

The reportage was finished, radio station broadcasts some music, and I am

still thinking: should 

I order 5 Unique Universal cream puffs…or may be only 3.

Summer is coming soon, I should keep myself well-shaped!.. Look at the calendar, look at the thermometer and decide: summer can wait a bit, I’ll order SEVEN!!!

Painter Vladimir Kolomiets

In the today review I would like to introduce you another interesting person: painter Vladimir Kolomiets. He is Crimean by the origin – he was born at the settlement Andreevka (not far from Sevastopol). Now he lives and makes his works in two cities: Sevastopol and St. Petersburg.

May be some of our readers are known with this Master. When I’ve saw his paintings, it was a real “love from the first sight”, now I try to show to you my impressions. And all the more, on the July 12^th the exhibition of Vladimir’s canvas will be presented at the Information Supermarket “The Atrium”.

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Information Supermarket The Atrium

Sculpture exhibition by Andrew Vasilenko. Music accompaniment by Anton Paramashikvan&Den, performance of the Sevastopol writer Yuri Ostretsov.

As I have promised before, I’d like to tell you about very unusual exhibition-installation “SOCIAL FormART” by Andrew Vasilenko. It takes place at the Information Supermarket “The Atrium” at the very beginning of June. But my impressions of it are still fresh and bright, as it was yesterday! It means that author and all the team, who helped him, have created a very interesting performance, the real eye-catcher, and they succeed in its main purpose: to gives us something to think, to look around and to ask some important questions to ourselves.

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Needlework from Olga Solodukha

This sweetie Mauve Hare

is seriously going to present you his heart!

Take it and keep it gently!

Hare’s heart should be handled with tenderness and love!

Sevastopol Paintress Elena Melkova

Painting of spirit.

Spirit of nice music, late spring or early summer, fresh air and flower smell.

And a path…path to something interesting and magic...

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

The carrot pie covered with orange icing is strongly recommended to eat very-very quickly. Why? Because you could be robbed…by this pretty porcelain rat :) 

And you can take, for example, Cha Hua tea “Tea-tree flowers”.

Photographer Alexey Shestakov

Alexey tell us the story about “The Lost World”:

When you hiking at the area of the pass “Baydarskie vorota” (Baydar gates) and start getting up from parking place, you need to turn right to the substation house and keep moving up by the pathway. There you meet a perfect viewpoint: from the one side you see Baydar Valley, from another one – azure sea, golden domes of Foros Church and massive rocks of Aj-Petri yaila. Under your feet will be the descent to the bed of so called “The Lost World”. What is this place? A gigantic tectonic fault at the level 75m had formed a rock bench, which altitude varies from 50m to 75m. Part of the old mountain had dropped into the fault and created a small plateau, crossed with huge splits. Ragged edges of the reared stone plate seemed pierced the sky and disaster feeling wandering over this place.

History reference:

In June and in September 1927 two seismic tremors of 8 points had shocked the whole Crimean peninsula. Epicenter of the earthquake was in the Black Sea 30rm from the seacoast. All along the shore were ruined buildings, destroyed communications, broken telegraph lines. A lot of people had lost their lives. In the Crimean mountains were a lot of landslides, which damaged local roads. Water springs are vanished and reappeared, even their chemical compound had changed. Gases were arising from the bottom of the Black Sea and these gases burned over the sea – such fire columns were hundred meters high.

In Sevastopol many houses were cracked; Post-office building and one of the city churches were seriously damaged. At the periphery also were a lot of landslips and slides. Aftershocks of this earthquake can be seen now at the Cheleby mountain near Foros. Slopes of this mountain are covered with the chasms and splits…

 To be continued. Please wait the next issues of us…

Photographer Alexey Shestakov

Fantastic landscapes of Demerdji make me think, that I have falling asleep

and awakening in this dream. So now I am able to hover in the clouds together with
magic dragons, 

hover and admire with this mystic beauty.

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Sevastopol Paintress Elena Melkova

You need a considerable skill to show with the oil-paints

the transparency of vine in the glass goblet, roughness of garnet’s skin and gloss grape-peel.

I think, Elena has this skill!

Information Supermarket The Atrium

Interview with Yuri Volodin, PR/event-manager

Before making an interview, Yuri Volodin and I had visited an interesting presentation: “Social FormArt” by Andrew Vasilenko – an exhibition, installation, research – all-in-one. Yuri, as a PR/event-manager has a professional interest, and I was just a curious spectator. This exhibition made a great impression for me, so I will describe it in my next review.

And our topic for today is the Personality. The Personality and the Place. And some delicacy in the end. 

The Personality.

Yuri, we know each other for a long time. But tell about yourself to our readers.

Yuri Volodin, PR/event-manager of the Information Supermarket “The Atrium”.

My way, or how it is called now “lifestyle”, can be described in two words “Zen and Ken”: Japanese fencing with the Buddhism in its soul. These two things have a great importance at all my life and also at my professional realization. They form, first of all, the discipline, the inner attitude to the very fundamental things like life or death, like the possibility of “victory” and “defeat”. What is more important for you: how many times have you fallen down or how can you rise you up? What is your attitude to the things which should be over inevitably? Realizing of this inevitability in your life helps you to feel the real taste of life, how bright and colorful life is, to evaluate the importance of every day of it. And you clear understand that every day should be filled with action and progression, self-knowledge and self-evolution. Zen motto for the Iaido: “Always being on the Path”.

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