“Yulia, why do you like to walk around abandoned places?” I asked a photojournalist, as soon as we got through a gap in the fence, which separates from the world the abandoned linoleum factory in the depressed post-industrial area of…
The favorite route to “Lubart’s sanctuary” “Here it is hot in the summer, and cold in the winter,” Anastasia Markiv, Senior Researcher of the Administration of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve in the city of Lutsk, nods at the…
Imagine this picture: suppose that on December 24 you really need to go to Reni – a small city “on the edge of geography”, the most remote piece of Odesa region situated on the border with Romania and Moldova. The…
Winter. The time of approaching holidays Last February here, in Chongar, the icy wind with snow was knocking you down, pulling bags out of your hands, people were sliding on ice, which no one not only cleared but even didn’t…
More than 15 years ago Hutsulshchyna National Park created a tourist and artistic complex St. Nicholas’s Estate on its territory. It quickly became one of the favorite places of Ukrainian children and became popular abroad. However, during this winter period,…
The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans had appeared here due to the lodger. Thus, since 1845, Eugenie Hacman, a prominent religious and public figure in Chernivtsi, who had already occupied the high rank of the bishop, was forced to…
More than a hundred years ago in Chernivtsi, far away on the outskirts of the town, a specialized institution was built. Within its walls, people with mental and psychiatric disorders were kept. A spacious complex with five buildings and a…
You consult your phone, check up the information and try to find yourself on the default “Maps” app. It’s that very Petrivka. To be precise – Kurisove. The only thing that’s left is to find among those absolutely noncorresponding to…
But there are other museums. Among them, there is the Cherkasy Regional Museum. This year, it turned 100 years, but its workers decided to crush stereotypes about the temple of history, as a quiet and static environment. Interactive excursions and…
The first days of November 1998 are black and terrible times in the history of Transcarpathia. The worst and most devastating flood not only destroyed property, buildings, roads, and bridges, it also killed people. Here, in the Mizhhirshchyna, a rapid,…