During the 1921-23 famine in the USSR, Soviet authorities had allowed photographers unprecedented and never to be repeated freedom to document starvation and human misery on Soviet soil. Over the ensuing decade, the authorities decided...
Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic original photo (L) by Yevgeny Khaldei. The fragment of the original (top R) shows wristwatches on both hands of the offices, later the...
Kateryna Desnytska was born in a wealthy family Lutsk, Volyn Oblast on April 27, 1886, one of twelve children. This was her parents’ second marriage – together they raised four children from the mother’s first marriage, six from...
“The course Ukraine: History, Culture, and Identities will lead the participants through a thousand years of Ukrainian history, from the Middle Ages Kyivan Rus’ to the declaration of independence at the beginning of the 1990s. It...
“Our archaeologists have found an iron-bound cannon carriage (a special mobile unit used to transport an artillery piece) dating back to the Cossack period (16th-18th centuries). It was meant to transport large-calibre artillery weighing...
The document will be brought to Ukraine by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba. “We continue searching for historical documents and artefacts that show Ukraine’s government traditions and diplomatic work on the...
Did a Ukrainian unit really come to the help of Finland in the Winter War? FACT CHECK: FALSE Homeniuk notes that at the beginning of the Winter War, 41-year-old writer Gorlis-Gorsky arrived in Finland, where he put forward the idea of...
Here we present his Innitzer album, the popular name of an album of photographs that were taken by Wienerberger in 1933 while he was working as a managing consultant in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s capital at that time. The photographs depict...
It was in September (1932 – ed.). I was sitting in the sleeping-car of the Moscow-Kharkiv high-speed train, which was taking me to my new job. … The suffering land looked even scarier during the day than at night. At each...
Buildings such as the student canteen, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra or the apartment block on vulytsia Pushkinska remember the lives of students, orphans, villagers, workers, and even some Communist Party members who were linked to the genocidal...
2020 was a hard year for nearly the entire world: the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple ensuing crises showed how easily our civilization can be upset by something as microscopic as a virus. Ukraine faced additional challenges. Ukrainian...
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