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MattSh

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27. Originally from Kiev...

Reply to DemReadingDU (Reply #14)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 08:02 AM

Jul 2015

Igor Sikorsky was born and raised here and attended Kiev Polytechnic University, which has a statue in his honor.

Now there's a brand new (circa 2012) US Embassy here on Sikorskoho St, which was renamed in his honor upon the request of the US government. It's a $250 million dollar behemoth, which probably was a clear signal that the USA would be up to no good here. As a comparison, the original cost of the US Embassy in Iraq was supposed to be only $750 million, before those costs skyrocketed.

The embassy in Baghdad at one time employed 15,000, while the high figure I've seen for the one in Kiev is 750.

I ran some numbers a few years back and figured that the cost of the embassy here in Kiev, on a square foot basis, was in the range of the cost to build in Manhattan, NYC.

Coordinates on Google Earth (or Maps), should you want to look it up. 50°27'56.25" N 30°25'57.10" E

Adding a link: And let's try that again with a shortener: https://goo.gl/fIK5lH

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