Hydropark in Kyiv

Kachalka at Hydropark, Kyiv, November 2017 Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a forest of blue-painted machines under the trees of Venetsiansky Island in the Dnipro, built largely from salvaged Soviet-era metal, with chains for cables and hunks of old machinery for weights. It began with a single chin-up bar, though accounts differ on whether that was in the late 1960s or the 1970s, and enthusiasts still keep the kit running themselves. It is free and never closes, which is why a gray autumn morning like this one still brings out lifters of every age.