               National Geographic Photo of the Day: Kiev

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Kiev, Ukraine, 1986 Photograph by Steve Raymer In a scene captured
before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a crowd awaits the November
7 fireworks to celebrate the communist revolution of 1917. Now
Ukrainians celebrate their own Independence Day on August 24, the day
they declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ukraine,"
May 1987, National Geographic magazine)    RELATED
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