The building was constructed in 1889-1890 at the intersection of Sapiehy (today Stepana Bandery) and Kopernika Streets according to the design of architect Jozef Kajetan Janowski. Built in Neo-Renaissance style, it was originally designed...
These old photos, taken from open Internet sources, give us an idea of how Ukrainians celebrated Easter at the turn of the 20th century – blessing of Easter baskets, church processions, partaking of blessed foods around the Easter table,...
This project is a private initiative under the auspices of Kryla Volunteer Organization . Your generous gift is used to provide direct financial assistance to wounded soldiers and help purchase much-needed hospital and military materials...
“These are rare historical postcards. I want people to see and use this material, so please share my album. I’ve been collecting Ukrainian postcards since 1992. My favorite topics include Ukrainian landscapes, typical Ukrainian...
Lychakiv Cemetary was created in 1787. Before that, city residents were buried near churches, the majority of which were located in the city center. Due to threats of plague and other dangerous diseases, Austrian Emperor Joseph II ordered...
In the French village of Oradour (June 1944), Nazis murdered 642 inhabitants; in the Czech village of Lidice (June, 1943) – 320, in the Belarusian village of Khatyn (March 1943) – 149 (according to contemporary German data...
This project is run as a private initiative under the auspices of KRYLA Ukrainian Volunteer Association http://kryla.org.ua/. Your generous gift is used to provide direct financial assistance to wounded soldiers and help purchase...
Franz Carlowitz Březicki (Ukr: Frants Karlovych Brzhezytsky) was born in a modest Polish working family in Zhytomyr on September 4, 1924. In the 1930s, Soviet authorities executed his father (who was fully rehabilitated later on), and his...
Yakutovych was born in an artistic family in Kyiv in 1952. His father, Heorhiy Yakutovych was an outstanding Ukrainian graphic artist, also known for his work in the cinema, including Serhiy Paradzhanov’s legendary film – Shadows...
The war in Ukraine is no longer regularly reported in western media; when it is, the focus is generally on military activity or the breaking of the Minsk agreements. What is often neglected is the network of civil society volunteers that...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
