The double-boat and baidak are unique boats. They have been restored thanks to a grant from the US Embassy. The National Reserve “Khortytsia” won it in 2014. Then the citizens of Zaporizhzhia received almost 70 thousand dollars. The head of…
A fragile girl with extra-red braids in a Tyrolean hat, which suits her. She is not only a participant, as they say, a “character” of the festival, but also a warrior, a knight! It was the first time when the…
This will be a problem with an asterisk. There were: writers, merchants, architects, nobles, officials, charity, balls, creative evenings… There are now: homeless, alcoholics, drug addicts, devastation, stink, despair… Between then and now is about 160 years. Is it much?…
Often visitors are met here… with dances. But the guests are happy about this only at the beginning. Later they learn how a circus bear Benya acquired choreographic skills in the past. A small bear was placed on a hot…
Master and red-haired Nimets He is 75. And he looks just like a hero from some strange film about goblins. Or maybe from Victor Hugo’s novel? Textured. Like he molded himself. The weather-beaten body. The shorts are greasy from daily…
Nothing can erase the tag-machine. The artist and former graffitist Vova Lodek Vorotnov says that all these inscriptions have no sense: “If you cannot read the inscription, then it is subcultural ‘doctor’s handwriting”, where the “patient’s” nickname is encoded. It’s…
“This is our mistress! Ilona Zrini! A legendary wife, lover, mother and just an incredible woman of her time! Her birthday is May 22th, and we devote all our main events to her,” the journey begins with the acquaintance with…
“The third places” are part of the urban space that is neither home (“the first place”) nor work (“the second place”). “The third place” in its nature is “free” to visit, it forms and develops its own community, promotes the…
The cemetery for the Olycian-Catholics Radziwills was founded in the XVI century. As the local ethnographer Anatoliy Gur says, cemetery appeared here almost at the same time when castle’s construction works had begun. Actually, then, the local population of Volyn…
At the end of the XVIII century a wooden church was built in Kinsky Rozdory. In 1796, it was consecrated as the Church of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Konska settlement. According to the local legend, Alexander Pushkin…