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The welcoming locals held Ukrainian flags, balloons and gift bags filled with candy, toys and homemade piroshki, a kind of bun filled with meat, fruit or poppy seeds.

A Pan Am stewardess might find herself evading the KGB in Moscow and trading recipe cards for piroshki with her Aeroflot counterparts.

Versions of piroshki are prepared throughout Eastern Europe, but here, they are made with a cabbage, feta and dill filling, which is both sweet and savory.

They are similar but — apologies to everyone standing in line at the eponymous Pike Place Market window — vastly superior to piroshki, the breaded Slavic turnover.

The couple eating the piroshki were headed to Simferopol to get to the airport.