The central focus of the trip may have been
around Zaporozhye, but there was much to see and learn on the way from
Kiev.
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On Thursday evening we left Kiev for an overnight trip down the river,
going through a couple of locks on the way.
On Friday morning we stopped at Khanev, the site of a memorial to Taras
Shevchenko, a 19th century poet and artist considered to be the father of the country of
Ukraine.
Starting in the afternoon, the "University of Glushkov" began
its sessions.
Saturday morning we stopped on the river at the industrial city of
Dneprodzerzhinsk and took a ferry to the shore. There we boarded buses for
Dnepropetrovsk.
In Dnepropetrovsk we saw the first of buildings either built by Mennonites
or associated with the Mennonites of the region.
In the city of Dnepropetrovsk a museum merited a visit. One
room is dedicated to the Holocaust visited by Stalin on the people of the Ukraine.
