we will now prepare the filling for khachapuri , it will be made from suluguni cheese and shmatozi, and we will add butter. maxim will rub this bowl on my aunt, and bohdan will cut me a piece. ok. while the boys are working with cheese, oksana is making the dough. our dough is ready to make khachapuri. now i will mix it up again and tell us why it was very difficult to start volunteering in the first place when the war was in our country. such corrections are not only in our ukraine . these mountains have entered every family. i just want to be at least a little bit, at least for a hundredth part participants in this step towards victory until recently. these women did not know each other. oksana came to uzhgorod from kyiv. she was evacuated at the beginning of a full-scale invasion by the russians . sisters olesya and svitlana came from the zaporizhia region. they saved children from constant shelling. the women met

by chance. my son met a boy at school with classmate, they were there, they had a little quarrel and had a fight, so i got to meet his mother there, and his mother says that we volunteer here to go to the military to the hospital, and so on before that. i only gave blood regularly. well, i'm a donor , and that's what i'm saying. i want to too. come on, together now every friday they cook for the soldiers who are being treated in transcarpathia, the products are partially received from the volunteer fund , they buy something themselves, voila , and you're already in the hospital. the kitchen has already spread all over the house, the delicious things have been packed, they are ready to go to the hospital, and oksana, her son, is taking the flag with him, here we are, the flag of ukraine - this is a signature and a symbol

of solidarity. the ceiling and the ukrainian flag was visible. i don't want a military one. they suffered from the will and i want to be with my dad . it will be cool when it's not cool. it's definitely cool . everyone is together. they are gathering near the hospital. where the wounded fighters are lying. in general, there are volunteers here . a few dozen of them and everyone is covering the table with bags in the hall. they are laying out khachapuri food. chops from gambov, flatbreads in a year, pancakes with meat, and i don't know several types of different cakes. victoria coordinates the work of the volunteers. in general, we have about

160 people in the group, active such people, 30-40 people every time someone joins, uh, they call me from the city, i want to go and help, whatever i'm going to do, it all started with apple picking, then what about apples, let's bake something, let 's get some olive oil yes, i will. let's go. i'll make pancakes. and i'll have legs. the consequences. after the victory , we will definitely open our own restaurant, and while the war is going on, their mobile restaurant will feed dozens of wounded soldiers in hospitals on fridays. everyone is now serving food that is already ready. on it's good, there are no words to express my gratitude, these soldiers have been treated here for almost a month, one is from kyiv, the other is from kramatorsk, both were wounded on the front line, the snow is from

podbahmut from there. moscow and then the well-kept circle there will definitely be driven out on them forever easier, they leave their wishes to the victorious flag of bohdan completely, the son of will, above all, you are full of a cossack for a cossack of will , then all the details tv channel inter marathon the only news is because of the war, the majority of ukrainians are denying themselves rest, however, every trip is not particularly forced, it gives strength, carpathian resorts, despite the difficulties, work despite the air alarm, electricity cuts, a decrease in demand, so next, we offer you a virtual journey right now, and the broadcast will continue the author’s column of valery mikulska ukraine for which we are fighting, this time it will be about yaremche in

prykarpattia. well, i say goodbye to you for one hour. let's look at my family and my sisters from mykula. we this morning we meet in a very serious , colorful company, in general, every new route through the carpathians is like this and it reminds me of the same crazy ski hills where between the deep colorful past and the modern modern 5 minutes on the lift or so in a dozen kilometers on the

bukovel road today it flies again at speed and you and i meet one of the oldest carpathian resorts and the center of hutsul culture in yaremche. but rather a guarantee, because it has been here for 25 years. how has the largest in the carpathians and not only been going on, and the whole international hutsul festival recently went on for more than a week and also set a lot of records of talent and skill, all in order to cultivate the heritage of the carpathian highlanders and so that everyone could understand how it should be be a hutsul, be a hutsul, it means to love water, freedom and independence, every hutsul is like that, like an eagle greets

its excursion festival with mountains with its own hands, to immediately walk and feel all the hustle and bustle of resort life in yaremche is worth definitely see one of its top locations, this city is cut by a slope. the steep mountain and more than once sung river prut flows into a deep canyon and here in the very center spurts into stones, forming one of the wettest waterfalls in the carpathians. 10 m, but the power of the water that

breaks in the yaremchan canyon even from a glance pierces with a current that is mesmerizing. by the way, they say that once upon a time this turbulent handsome man was three times higher the convenience of logging, capricious rapids were undermined and made more gentle, whether it is true or not , this did not diminish the magnetism of the waterfall even a drop, it seems. yaremche, as well as the neighboring mykulychyn, tatariv, and vorokhta, lie right in the middle of the carpathian national park, and it and

the local nature have something to enchant guests for a reason. the first settlements on this land appeared several thousand years ago. at the end of the 19th century, the nearby green slopes were excavated by archaeologists and they came across a real treasure, a whole stus of bronze tools dating back to 800 bc. in fact, all the interesting facts from the history of the resort and the park itself are today collected in a modern eco -visitors were waiting for tourists in yaremcha more than 100 years ago, perhaps the same way, and already at the end of the 19th century, 50 wooden immured villas opened their doors to them here, and for that there was one

very good reason for the location in a cozy the valley is in the middle of the magnificent nature, which, by the way, the local residents defended as much as they could for you and me, and already in the first years of the 20th century, there are also environmentalists here who wrote petitions not to allow the construction of a quarry on the outskirts because it will spoil the air and harm tourism . the first yaremchanskyi mountain tourist club in ukraine was opened here in 1896. in fact, it was then that the first hiking routes were created here. some of the original routes have survived to this day, and here, in the information center of the park, you can choose which one to go. i recommend the dovbush zalizne trail for its beauty same full of mysterious lineages and legends about the famous local robin hood lexus or go in the direction of the textured rock elephant in winter - this giant flash from the baby elephant is visible from afar and from all corners of the resort and

even the reserve town of amen carpathian national park covers more than 500 square and mountainous kilometers braided proton black cheremosh and crowned with a hoverla, it attracts not only people, it is one of the largest and liveliest parks in the ukrainian carpathians and is traditionally i have a great request to you to protect and respect this a generous oasis. and to encourage you even more, let's visit his cutest lawn

, aviary farms, as far as i'm concerned, this is a new era , because there are more and more of them in the corners, and i'm extremely happy because, first of all, this is not a zoo , and the animals here are only those that are characteristic of this region, whose real can be found on the territory of the national park, but here it is more likely, by the way, it is one of the first such humane park centers on the territory of ukraine in yaremche, it has been operating since the early 90s. and it is also important that these are not just aviaries, but at the same time a professional center for the rehabilitation of wild animals and birds and all those who gets here, they are treated and restored in natural conditions of existence. who is not cold in winter in the carpathians, oh, how can you imagine such a

grunting greeting somewhere in the middle of a dense forest, it is scary, but here and now is the right time when you can prepare for such a meeting, ask the zoologists attached to each enclosure an information board in ukrainian and english so that every visitor can learn interesting information about animals or, if desired, order excursions for more than a century this resort and its surroundings are called the green pearl of the carpathians, although frankly this piece of the carpathians is very attractive and beautiful in white and in purple and in all seasons, by the way, translators from turkic interpret it as yaremche how to go back and really want to come back here and at least take something with

you a good mention, the journey to yaremche itself is probably the best souvenir that you can take from here, but in addition to the whole crazy list of attractions that this iconic tourist town offers to tourists, of course there is a bright souvenir market where you can buy a bunch of emotional local gifts. i could n't pass the uprising. it's really beautiful. i think this souvenir will not reach kyiv. these are traditional hutsul cheese cones. can you imagine how you have to love gastronomic traditions to produce such beauty? ivano-frankivsk region is simply luxurious, yes, grandmother's chest of cultural treasures, weaving, bed-making, knitting, carving, pottery, blacksmithing

, leather processing, and shaped cutting of metal. wow, it's not a complete list of all the crafts that lived a long time ago and still miraculously live in remote villages of the region, but cheese modeling is probably the strangest of local skills and we are heading to the hinterland of kosivshchyna to the capital of cheese grasshoppers. a region where almost every family has a cow. and this is also a unique point on the map of ukraine, where this same cheese from a local product, not for the first century, acquires the form of art, the art of cult and magic, and works of slavic

to conjure up the times and at home, the master of the cheese business is waiting for us in the neighboring village with the romantic name of shpit, and most tourists now go here not so much for souvenirs as to admire the incredibly beautiful waterfalls that spill over the surrounding area, how sculptural they freeze now in winter, it is a barricade of crystal and it seems that we have already found the source of creativity of local masters

, you can meditate here forever, but friends, it is not good to be late, they have already gone to harness cheese horses since the middle of the 20th century in barrows and villages, almost every family was involved in the production of souvenirs, and the family of our craftswoman is no exception. olga is the daughter of a local priest and at the same time a master carver. the hostess charms with authentic hutsul clothing and a sincere smile . it's really hard to call it a product. and it's even harder to dare to eat it, or

maybe you shouldn't eat them, because i know that once upon a time such grasshoppers were made here as a charm, you can and how talisman but i think that it is still a product and it should be eaten, there is even one that went hutsul made of strawberries in a wide belt brought me a gift of a lamb i already have that lamb as souvenirs as a gift so everything starts with cheese and ends with it already in a completely different form, the production process is quite long and requires a lot of costs, because first there is the production of gudzu cheese, which requires fresh milk, whole milk, and for 1 kg of cheese, 10 liters of fresh milk from one kilogram of these small grasshoppers, 20 pieces of each such cheese the sculpture is a primary handful of chopped gudzu in which cheese on the tile our craftswoman

has just boiled water and it will make the pieces of gudzu plastic kneading the cheese mass in a spoon is somewhat like kneading the dough on a doll scale, but this is a very important process because this is how the cheese becomes an elastic sculptural mass from which you can shape a toy and now carefully each manipulation must be strengthened and harden in salt water it must be prepared and cooled in advance in order for the cheese that we have already given shape with the help of a hand and a wooden spoons to keep this form so that it solidifies the ambassadors and the taste and form, and the forms here are an endless universe of horses, rams, birds, stars and flowers, carriages, or horsemen in traditional ammunition and with weapons, everything is in the hands of the creator and depends on his imagination, it is stored

for two weeks without a refrigerator, without anything because they will be well salted now. and if there are more , then they need to be dried. and you can put them in the freezer, they can be stored, they do not lose their taste or shape, but it is better to eat them within a week, because this is an edible toy. taste it, it's a shame to eat it, it's true, only for you without ears, who once really considered these cheese gifts almost a cult-magical attribute, the slavs had a widespread cult of animals, so their reproduction is , in fact, relics of ancient beliefs and ideas of life, and it is worth adding in such there are no similar very tasty analogues of such cheese plastic

anywhere in the world, there is something similar in other carpathian regions in neighboring countries, but there is no such delicate work and such images , it has long been claiming to be included in the list of intangible cultural heritage i will not eat this, i will definitely save it. because you know, in the midst of all the crazy mixture of customs , skills, rituals of the carpathian region , the most valuable local tradition is to protect one's colorful and so native. and also, without fail, to share sincerely, now is the time. the following story can be boldly started as a fairy tale in one small old village in the middle of mountains and forests lived-were and knew how to celebrate, i don’t know who to be today, a lightning-fast goat or a woman, and what do you say?

and in general, how can you choose? when there is such an insane number of images and outfits, brazil is nervous , venice is in shock, aka ukrainian winter carnival is a real explosion of emotions and imagination that happened much earlier than in old europe and we are invited today to share the extravagant traditions of celebrating a generous evening in prykarpattia or otherwise malanka and vasyl . in many regions of ukraine, but everywhere in its own way, the only thing that is unambiguous is that this is one of the most colorful old slavic pagan but at the same time church and therefore confused winter holidays we are from genuine out of curiosity, let's meet him here in

kosiv region in stara babina, from the very morning in every second house of the village, there are hot preparations, and you and i made it just in time. i wonder how you will get ready, uh, you know, it's a bit so difficult here, when you have nothing to get dressed in, you get ready right away nothing you don't have anything to put on your clothes. it looks like a little dress or clothes without pockets. it's old and must be a kastrubenko, and therefore it has one of the main roles in the ritual. each village has its own rules and its main characters, we waited for this all year long only in

lanka, who is the grandfather, who is the main one in the melanka, they shout to everyone, the assembly or gathered in a pile and they are also on the guests of babu, this one is honestly looking for him, my grandmother is old, no departure grandma's lips, you have to look for it here, grandma, look in the cradle in your teeth, you have to have it, you just can't recognize it, the holiday is funny, but it's very responsible for the participants , so from the outside it seems that the fellow villagers just decided to have fun and joke around, but how long ago was there a selection discussion costumes and rehearsals, all this stretches for

a whole year, and only on january 13, our grandfather finally finds his grandmother in babina. in this carpathian village, many old and traditional hutsul images of authentic papier-mâché masks have been preserved. here you will definitely meet the king and queen a gypsy doctor, but now the local malanka is famous for its modern characters and a cheerful party, and once a year the village headman puts cosmetics on his wife and turns into a charismatic waitress , ramona, the last touches and a carnival costume come on, this is a comedy. how will you hear this on the

streets of babina on the old new year? do not be surprised and know that the holiday on the main maidan is about to begin, although it is difficult not to notice the theatrical action in a close circle of guests and fellow villagers, as if it is a funny production, but do not be surprised if they want you to get a haircut or to be invited for a medical examination, the local characters are very deep in their image, although a humorous concert is only part of the story , they begin to be malanka or generous in babina already with the onset of darkness, because according to an old belief , that is when evil power comes out, and malanka has to

scare her away from the house with his ritual dances and songs. and you know. something tells me that from year to year she succeeds. because we are the ones who can frighten a woman even in the dark with images. and will unanimously note that the year will not begin without this boisterous celebration of the holiday, today's humorous scenes are inferior to the traditional generosity , they are applied to every house up to the epiphany , just as it was a hundred or more years ago, and this is not just a mass celebration, it is a strong and a colorful thread that unites many generations of ukrainian hutsuls. it is necessary to educate and laugh at problems in such a way as to lift them up and not offend anyone and strengthen

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