Our apartment

We have arrived at our apartment. Our generous hosts made sure we had premium accommodations. Only 3 flights of stairs, then a huge and heavy steel door activated by a skeleton key turned 4 times to release 4 deadbolts. Then the heavy steel re-enforced wooden door to be opened with another key turned twice, with two more deadbolts inside once you were locked in tight. I wondered if the stories of kidnapping I read about were true, and was thankful to be in such an impenetrable abode. We lived in Pod 8 apartment 630 in a sturdy old Soviet building on this little street.

By Ukrainian standards we were living large. Our apartment was spacious and clean with hot water, air conditioning (a BIG luxury in Ukraine), a piano, and a very nice kitchen. Here are some pictures of our home in Kramatorsk.