Kabul’s Soviet Ruins Offer a Reminder of Imperial Ambitions
2012年2月12日 · Like the pool, Kabul holds many glimpses of its Soviet past hidden in plain sight around its jumbled hillsides: a polytechnic school built in the 1960s, when the Soviet Union and the United...
Welcome to Kabul, Home of the Taliban Swimming Pool: Part Three
Built by the occupying Soviet forces in the 1980s atop this 500-foot arid mount in the centre of Kabul was an actual Olympic size pool, complete with multi-tiered concrete diving platforms and a panoramic view. Wedged between the dizzying heights of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Kabul River, the city stretched out across the valley.
From Soviet Past, Only Architecture Remains - The New York Times
2012年2月12日 · The restored Soviet-era swimming pool atop Swimming Pool Hill in Kabul, Afghanistan. Andrea Bruce for The New York Times. Share full article. In Kabul, Afghanistan, artifacts of the...
In Afghanistan, a Soviet past lies in ruins - bendbulletin.com
2012年2月12日 · Dug 30 years ago, it was barely ever used by Kabul’s swimmers, as the hill became entangled in barbed wire, first a gun placement for the Soviets and then the Taliban, before the whole area was...
In Kabul’s Heart, Soviet Towers Harbor Decades of Tales
2020年4月9日 · KABUL, Afghanistan — The scars from four decades of war are etched into the boxy apartment towers known as Macroyan Kohna, a dreary neighborhood built by the Soviets in central Kabul a half ...
Bibi Mahru Hill | Kabul, Afghanistan | Attractions - Lonely Planet
At the top there's an Olympic-size swimming pool built by the Russians that's barely been full since it was built due to the difficulties of pumping water uphill. During the war the diving board was notorious as an execution spot. The pool sits on …
View from atop Swimming Pool Hill - News | Khaleej Times
2006年8月29日 · AT the top of Swimming Pool Hill in Kabul, there is, strangely enough, a huge Olympic size pool, built from raw concrete with concrete diving boards. It was built by the occupying Soviet...
"As the sound of a deep blast somewhere in the distance echoes …
2015年8月1日 · The swimming pool on top of Bibi Maru Hill in central Kabul was built by the Soviets during the 1980s, but has rarely been filled because pumping water up to it proved easier said than done.
Building a Dream: Afghanistan’s National Water Polo Team
2009年3月16日 · FIFTEEN miles east of Kabul, in a Soviet-era swimming pool guarded by an armed sentry, Jeremy Piasecki is building a national water polo program. With backing from the Afghan Olympic...
Taliban fighters from Uruzgan and Kandahar at the diving board …
Taliban fighters from Uruzgan and Kandahar at the diving board above the Soviet-era swimming pool on Bibi Mahru Hill, in the Kabul neighbourhood of Wazir Akbar Hill at sunset nearly a month after the former insurgent group took control of the Afghan capital.