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Zhytomyr: how the Electrovymiriuvach is being revitalised

Formerly an important industrial enterprise, today Zhytomyr’s “Elektrovymiriuvach” (“Electromeasurer”) plant mainly produces equipment for physics classrooms. In 2019 Andrii Chyburovskyi became its co-owner. He decided to preserve the plant’s capacities and create a socially meaningful project on its basis. An...

Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture

The Center for Contemporary Culture in Dnipro is a new center of the city’s artistic life, where festivals, exhibitions, and concerts are held. Having trudged a difficult path in search of a permanent location, the center operates in the place...

Exploring Ukrainian Australia

A Ukrainian, Olga Oleinikova, has been living and working in Australia for almost ten years. She opened a research and analytical centre “Ukrainian Democratic Initiative” and founded a Persollo startup there. Olga teaches at the University of Sydney and organises...

Hamburg. A choir that unites

A German software developer and a founder of a Ukrainian сhurch сhoir, Martin Dietze, and a Ukrainian philologist, Nataliia Kostiak, have been living in Northern Germany, Hamburg, for almost 10 years. The couple founded the German-Ukrainian Cultural Society, within which...

What is the Dovzhenko Centre?

Until 2006, almost all films screened in Ukrainian theatres were exclusively dubbed in Russian, and few could have ever imagined that dubbing in Ukrainian was possible. And, while by 2014 few Ukrainian movies were successfully making film distribution deals, now...

Following your calling is life’s biggest runway

Stepan Krasilich is an experienced aviator who both flies and teaches others how to. He made his lifelong dream to teach others the basics of aviation come true after building an airfield and base in Lukvytsia, his native Carpathian village....

Who are the Horiuns?

In Slobozhanshchyna, near the cities of Putyvl and Bilopillia, Horiuns live. They are an East Slavic subethnic group that was formed on these lands in the 16th century. Now, there are only a few thousand Horiuns left.

An Egg as an Art Object

Anatolii Boiko decorates the eggshell in a way that surprises art connoisseurs and experienced scientists. An artist from Volodymyr-Volynskyi in Volyn invented a unique technique of decorating eggs — he “dresses” them in metal, decorates them with precious stones, and...