Dinosaur Park on Freedom Square in Kharkiv (June 2010): Photos
Today, June 1, at 4 p.m., a Dinosaur Park opened on Freedom Square in Kharkiv. The organizers say that a park of this scale, with life-size figures, is being shown for the first time not only in Ukraine but in the whole CIS. It will be open until June 30, every day from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Here you can “meet” the dinosaurs that lived on Earth millions of years ago, as well as animals from the Ice Age. History lessons about life long before humans appeared are promised every day.
A wonderful idea, and well done too! Lots of people came to the opening, and everyone was delighted, especially the kids: they all wanted to see the dinosaurs up close and take photos next to them. Besides the dinosaurs, there are mammoths, bears and a huge flightless prehistoric bird, plus a separate corner with scenes from cave people’s life. Performers dressed as cave people walk among the figures, and there was even a live eagle owl in a cage.
The opening ceremony was attended by Mykhailo Dobkin, head of the regional state administration, and Hennadiy Kernes, secretary of the city council.
A reader in the comments said the figures were brought from Austria by trucks. Admission in Kharkiv is free, and after Kharkiv the exhibition was supposed to go to Crimea for the summer, this time with paid admission.
Dinosaur Park photos
A woolly mammoth, one of the biggest figures in the park.
A predatory dinosaur by the building with the Nadra Bank sign.
A triceratops: three horns and a bony frill.
The cave people corner: a bear and a saber-toothed predator.
