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| Deserted streets in Vozdvyzhenka, Kiev. Photograph: Oksana Grytsenko |
By day, Vozdvyzhenka is popular for city walkers, wedding photo sessions and music clip shoots. But by night, the 17-hectare (42-acre) development falls quiet, its buildings dark, its street all but deserted.
Despite its prime location and agreeable facades, hardly anyone lives here. It was conceived 10 years ago as a desirable neighbourhood for the great and the good of the Ukrainian capital. But after a deep economic downturn withered Kiev in 2008 and 2009, the £85m development has lain fallow, a headache for its developers and a monument to the folly of grand designs in fragile economies."
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