GogolTrain is said to be the first art train in Europe. In the world, such an art project was held for the first time in Canada in 1970. Back then Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, and other rock stars went on a tour from Toronto to...
The book Do you know who deciphered the Mayan script? Who designed the flight path to the moon? Who flipped ballet fashion and invented the modern ballet tutu? Travelbook Ukraine offers 1,200 outstanding facts about Ukraine and Ukrainians....
Mariya Prymachenko was a self-taught artist whose popular work of the naive or primitivism genre portrayed Ukrainian folk art based on animal and plant life. Many of her masterpieces are included in a collection of folk art at the...
Read also: Ukrainian mosaic: five unique ethnic groups Situated in the village of Yavoriv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the location has been turned into a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of tourists. It can be incredibly eclectic with people...
Fact 1. Strikes and protests against Soviet authorities in Donetsk Oblast An active anti-Soviet underground flourished in the Donbas. For example, the regional KGB was constantly on the look-out “for anti-Soviet elements and...
Oleksiy served in the war zone from 2014. He didn’t wait to be called up, persistently visited the recruitment office and was finally deployed to the war zone in Eastern Ukraine. Oleksiy talks about his experiences: I waited for that...
School Number 3, a documentary film from Ukraine, won the Grand Prix of the Berlinale festival in the category 14plus. It tells the story of Donbas teenagers who experienced warfare between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed...
It is now three years since Euromaidan won. Three months of protests in Ukraine’s capital that started in November 2013 as an opposition to then President Yanukovych’s refusal to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement ended...
Ada Rohovtseva (1937- ) Famous theatre and cinema actress, People’s Artist of Ukraine, professor at the National University of Arts, and Hero of Ukraine. Rohovtseva has won numerous awards, many titles, merits and prizes. She has...
Beaded necklaces (namysto) are one of the oldest forms of women’s ornaments in Ukraine. They have many names – monysto, busy, korali – testifying to their long history and important role in Ukrainian culture. They are not...
ACT II – INSIGHT: RETAINING POWER BY ALL MEANS Avakov as beneficiary of the policy shift? President Zelenskyy’s shift in personnel policy – from “new faces” to “experienced people” – which led to the...
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