Gidropark Yelena Yemchuk
Yelena’s father Victor (right) with a friend on the DnIepEr River, 1961
To my grandmother Alexandra Ivanovna Samko
The photographs in this book were taken
in the summers of 2005-2008
in Gidropark, Kiev, Ukraine.
Gidropark was built in 1968 on the River Dnieper as a recreational complex
for the people.