it was unsurpassed, my thoughts, my thoughts, woe to me and you, what stood on paper, in sad rows, the windy shombas did not dispel. and the steppe is like dust, so that the disaster does not put you to sleep, like your child, let the thought, natively, look at you like this . and heartily like a nightingale, chirping and

crying, ukraine, glory to ukraine, ukraine, as vasyl symonenko wrote. no, ukraine has not died yet and will not die. thank you sincerely. national identity is something that the enemy cannot destroy . on the contrary, it only gets stronger in opposition to the occupier. what can you say about material and cultural heritage? according to the ministry of culture of ukraine, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, was damaged or completely destroyed. cultural objects,

most of them in the east, among the destroyed literary memorial museum of grigory skovoroda in the village of skovorodinivka. in general, in these walls i felt so protected, so calm, even here we did not hear the explosions that echoed around. it was a beautiful spring day, we finished the work indoors. we left work, it is clear that i am not a young person, accordingly, around 10 p.m. , my crib was already prepared and i already i was in it, the man was still walking around the yard, maybe i fell asleep, i don’t know, but his terrible cry, your museum is on fire, got me out of bed, i jumped out, the whole village was illuminated by this star, it was scary, the destruction of the museum was not was an accident, it was a targeted

enemy strike. there was a message from a person in katsap epaulettes who said that the control panel had been destroyed in a frying pan, so the skovoroda museum was rather iconic for them, grigory savich was called the first russian philosopher, but he did not perceive grigoriy the pan just with russia, as a territory, as their nature. experts said that it was most likely the caliber. on may 7, when i came here and everything was thrown away, everything was hanging, we were sitting with the director, and she said to me: and you see that grigoriy the frying pan is standing, so the work of igor yastrybov, skovoroda the thinker was simply intact, and when kiev was invited to the exhibition of st. grigory skovoroda in the ukrainian house. this monument,

we were actually worried whether it would arrive or how they called the restorers, then they said, it is almost undamaged, only it has peeled off in some places, a thin layer of paint, but it is not valuable at all, according to everything, it was preserved and was successfully exhibited in kyiv, according to which the pan is simply immortal, and exactly a month later , on june 7, they hit the premises of the kharkiv national pedagogical university, and there was work there, safudin gurbanov is making a monument to grigory savych, and all the mass media are reporting that the monument to skovoroda has been destroyed, it’s hard on the soul, yes, the director is enduring some such a pause of hours until 4 p.m. and calls boichuk, the rector, express his condolences, he says: do you know that under the ruins the monument to hryhoriy savych is not damaged at all, well, it was.

everyone just praised skavaradda, his indestructibility, as well as the indestructibility of the spirit of our state, our nation, our identity, despite the enemy missile attack... the museum continues to work thanks to the workers who do not give up, and hryhoriy savych himself continues to live in his books, which are willingly published even now, for example, the kharkiv publishing house vivat has published it again publication of skovoroda's works. even before the full-scale invasion, we made this book, it is very beautiful, it is children 's with illustrations, which a child will look at from an early age and will be... interesting as just a fairy tale, and growing up, together with this book, he will already understand a deeper meaning these fables, so now, if someone asks, something like this is very, very kharkiv for children and for adults. this bookstore opened six days

before the full-scale invasion, so in less than a week, it was forced to close. only in the summer of 2023, that is, in almost a year and a half, she once again, the number of readers began to increase, and, as it turned out, the people of kharkiv were very much looking forward to the opening of the bookstore. the police even came to us, because they did not understand why there was such a crowd, why so many people were gathered on the street, we had a queue to another block, and people were queuing, such heat is impossible on the street, but people were queuing to get into a shop, buy a book, war, air raids, shelling, uh, not understanding your future, people are queuing for books, so i think we succeeded in opening. during the war, it is important that bookstores and publishing houses actively cooperated, because books are a way to document events, and during a full-scale war, it is also a way

to fight enemy narratives. it is important for me to make as many books about the war as possible, in order to record the state in which we are now, so that there is no difference, so that we do not rewrite history, it is very important for me, despite the fact that it is really difficult to make such books, and i am often asked whether it is right to make books about the war, while the war is not over, but for me it is like this, it this is a chronicle of what is happening now, that's why we make such books, and in fact there are many of them. in the summer of 2023, the vivat publishing house published a book by the children 's writer volodymyr vakulenko, although this time his texts are not for children at all, they are diaries found in his native village of kapitolivka in slobozhanshchyna, which survived the occupation. the russian military kidnapped volodymyr, after several months of searching, his body was found in a mass grave near

izyum. in my opinion, this is also a symbolic book, we are all money, absolutely, not only profit, absolutely all the money that will be from the first edition. we will all give him to his family, because the family is left without a father , of course everyone knows about volodymyr vakulenko in our world of books, he was a children's writer, i say he was and even in the past tense i can't get my tongue back, you are talking about it, well, there was, we cried, we discussed a lot and tried to make this book as good as possible. the diaries of volodymyr, who was murdered and killed by the russians , were found by the ukrainian writer victoria amelina. she literally dug up these notes with his father, whom he asked to bury the notes in the garden and give them to ours when

they returned. volodymyr believed that his capitol would be freed from the occupation, but he seemed to feel that he himself would not wait for it. we discussed a lot with... she wrote a long foreword when this book was practically ready and we presented it at the arsenal, and literally a week after the arsenal, vika went to kramatorsk with colombian journalists, and to the cafe where they had lunch, on sorry, the missile hit there were incompatible lives, there were injuries, and now vika is gone, even earlier we... published her book the falling leaf syndrome, even then, i no longer remember who said it, who said it, but they said that it was quite an adult book, by a fairly young woman , the maturity of the age, she was in everything, she was, well, very responsible and

very serious, everything was important to her, she could sit in canada, where her family was, but she herself came to ukraine, this book, i think, will be a certain symbol, too. and i would like as many people as possible to have it read as long as the memory of volodymyr lives, provilina, as long as these people live in our thoughts and they are with us, it is important when you live your life in such a way that everyone talks about you with some kind of gratitude, pain, that her not now, you have to be able to do that. this is the reality in which the whole of ukraine has been living for over a year, a reality where the daily threat

to life is not only on the front line, the enemy is systematically and purposefully shelling our cities and villages, and even under such conditions, ukrainians continue to create, in particular, write books. practically all the authors with whom we work are in ukraine, and they describe their feelings, their emotions, their certain reflections. and we must record what is now. the books of kharkiv publishing houses unite and inspire readers from all over ukraine, it is not only about vivat. we actually have such a printing town, that is, the largest printing houses are located in kharkiv. and now almost all of them are working, which cannot help but make us happy, because i would really like for kharkov... production to return little by little,

the ranks of those who will forever remain in the ranks, under flags of the same colors as on the battlefield, tens of thousands of graves, hundreds of cemeteries in big cities, in small villages, this is our lost generation. i really want to go to ukraine, but my mother says that it is dangerous , how to solve the demographic problem and what awaits us in the future, the forecasts we have are either sad or very sad, my first grade, i went to poland, very many ukrainians who left will never return, what should the government do to convince these people to return. big

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despite the challenges, the publishing business in ukraine lives on. this is proved not only. large publishing houses, as well as medium and small ones. one of the vivid examples is oleksandr savchuk's publishing house. we are now in our office-warehouse, this is a small room on goncharivka, the historical district of kharkiv , exactly where the matchmaking took place on goncharivka, at osnovyanenko's flower shop. therefore, there are very interesting ones here houses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and we are actually in such an old house. savchuk publishing house already. for more than 10 years, a special place has been occupied by books about prominent kharkiv residents who have done many good things for the city and the development of culture, and today this is the way it is, it really is the way it is, that we are starting to print a book, it is such a usual job, but this is a holiday work, that is, for each publisher,

this is the final stage, so to speak, only a month. a book was being prepared, it is the author's book, this is a professor of our academy of arts, by the way, this building is also in ukrainian art nouveau, so she wrote a book about our academy, an interesting period of our art, kharkiv artists, yermilov, kosarev, marynkov, these are the designers of our, mostly our books are well-known, well, artists, kharkiv themes, here, well, such avant-garde art. oleksandr savchuk, a publisher, is in love with his city. it is known for iconic buildings of kharkiv and authentic local architecture. we are now near our kharkiv academy building of design and arts, this is a historical building of 1913 and built in a very important

style for us, in the style of ukrainian architectural modernism. here... paintings on the facades, such a hexagonal entrance, such a safe, openings in the shape of a shamrock , there are about 15 buildings in this style in kharkiv, and they are like pearls scattered throughout the city, and you can create such a whole excursion route and see how our predecessors created this ukrainian style in our city. this house is known among kharkiv residents, but few... who knows that it is one from bright examples of ukrainian modernism. unfortunately, this building was named in the people of tyremok. and this also indicates a certain misunderstanding of the context, what is being said, this is not a tyremka, these are characteristic ukrainian elements of the ukrainian baroque, due to the fact that the basis for many kharkiv residents was

russian culture, so this association is related to the tyremka, so we we are trying to cross it out now... out of common sense i don't use it and i suggest to all our colleagues, tour guides, guides to show connections, and it is very easy to show, it is worth showing, let's say a house shawl office in chernihiv, in other cities, and it immediately becomes clear where the roots of this architecture grow from. oleksandr began to research his native kharkiv and its history during his student years. we don't have such books that are, let's say, popular , that's all, that is, there is a constant interest , a new generation is growing up, this is what was missing, let's tell me, when i had questions, where i live, this were student years, and actually i lacked this context, i went to the carpathians on an ethnographic expedition and i saw how tradition exists, how folklore lives and what life looks like when

this interrupted tradition... was not there, that is, when knowledge was passed on from generation to generation, attitude, basic principles, attitude to life, including ethnography, were passed on. folklore, traditions, we drank at a traditional wedding, we saw how clothes are made, i came home and realized that we lack something, that we have this puzzle conventionally very badly beaten, i tried to understand, it is because of such industrialization and urbanists. yes, through the development of factories and cities, or was there something else, and then it turned out that there was something else that was aimed at eliminating this very ukrainian tradition, i was wondering if there is ukraine in eastern ukraine? and when these questions appeared, i began to look for answers, i began to look for archives, i began to look for

authors, and it became clear that all this was, but it was destroyed during the 20th century, i began to close the question for myself, and when i became familiar with with these enriching materials, it became clear that it would probably be interesting to someone else sandr still continues his own research, which inspires him for new projects. in addition to books, this year i wanted to take such a small step to the side and present to the reader these treasures from the artistic work of vasyl krychevskyi, whose 150th birthday we celebrate this year, he was a resident of kharkiv for a certain time, he grew up here as an architect and this very important, and when i saw these ornaments, i realized that something had to be offered... artistic, something that can be used in the interior of every home, well, it's actually about actualization of ukrainian style in household

space. vasyl krychevskyi is known not only as an artist and architect, but also as the author of the state coat of arms of the ukrainian people's republic. he popularized the ukrainian language and was the founder of professional university, architectural and artistic education in ukraine. and now we meet. there are such cases when ukrainian culture is perceived purely as rural, yes, just at the beginning of the century he was able to do everything so that such a perception did not exist, in ukrainian culture, we had rural architecture, which is expressive, which is immediately invented, and then, when we think about ukrainian urban architecture, a question arose, because part of ukraine was under the russian empire, part of the austro-hungarian empire, and accordingly, if we recall our largest cities, the architecture of these cities is not ukrainian, the architecture of these city ​​or polish or austrian or russian, and at the end of the 19th, at the beginning of the 20th century, a certain

number of ukrainian artists and architects asked themselves this question, and in 1903 the project of the poltava zemstvo, the poltava provincial zemstvo, was created, which now the poltava museum of local history, it is such a program work of krychevsky, and today it is the largest building in the style that represented this style, it entered it, well, in the architectural world in general, and showed that the ukrainian urban style is architecture, it exists, it was created, in fact , many other architects followed him, and today in kharkiv we will see more than 10 buildings in this style, kharkiv is the city with the largest number of these buildings. salamander house is a very famous kharkiv profit building that connects two

the central streets of the middle of the city, sumy and rymarska, and actually from the side of sumy in such a courtyard we see this board, which was first placed 10 years ago, then the decision of the city council was first approved, and after a certain time it was destroyed, a decision was made about its dismantling and immediately it was smashed with a sledgehammer, well, already in january 22, right before the war, this board was restored by kharkiv activists, public organizations, and in fact it is still in place, yuriy shevilyov is very important to us, this such an outstanding kharkiv resident who lived in kharkiv for 35 years, later... his scientific career and activity continued in the universities of sweden and america, he is an outstanding linguist, first of all, who wrote

a book in english about the ukrainian language, and thus he showed that such a language exists, showed it on the world language map, after that there is already a clear differentiation between the russian and ukrainian languages. the ukrainian identity of kharkiv is quite blurred and complex, at the same time, in such critical conditions as now, it has emerged, and enough has been said about this identity yuriy shevilyov spoke a lot, he often uses the concept of latent identity, that is, hidden ukrainianness , it is not clearly expressed, but it is as if a person relies on it, yes, i will not be too optimistic about kharkiv, but... in general, i think that the majority of people, at least the younger generation, they absolutely understand what is happening in the public space, i hear ukrainian, i would

ideally like it so that, this was not a conjunctural story, what is needed now, yes, but for people to really understand , that ukrainian is a language that is associated with ukraine, with its struggle and with home after all, yes, at least as it is for me. there are many buildings in kharkiv that preserve the history and memory of artists who worked here, this is a very famous attic. in which vasyl yermilov and boris kosarovev lived, it was actually their apartment where they created this avant-garde of the 20s and 30s, that 's what it's called, yermilov kosarev's attic, for a long time they collected funds to buy this room, to make a residence there, unfortunately, so far to no avail, but we have one another very interesting artistic topos of our

city, in such a historical part of kharkiv, vasyl yermilov is rightfully considered the initiator of the ukrainian avant-garde. he was born and lived in kharkiv, and he spoke about his creativity as follows: i am in great friendship with my hammers, chisels, presses, jars, cutters, compasses, they are extensions of my hands and eyes. like many ukrainian artists, vasyl yermilov suffered from oppression by the soviet authorities and did not gain proper recognition for his work during his lifetime. the people of kharkiv are their own people revered, in 2012 a cultural center of modern art named after him was opened . kharkiv is a city, it is a city of artists, photographers, it is a city of designers, architects, it is a city of youth, students, the idea came that there should be a center of modern art here. well, now we are in the center

of modern art. the center is , i would say, the largest platform where you can show exhibition projects, hold any events, festivals, concerts, and our main activity is, of course, exhibition activity. the yarmilov center is one from the artists of the spaces of kharkiv, who have their own shelter. now we are going down to the second floor, to the lower floor of the center, we are in a super safe space, because this is already the lower floor, which is already almost underground, the whole center of kharkiv, where the shots hit or some buildings were damaged by the shock wave, that's all architectural monuments, the university suffered huge destruction, these are photos taken by photographer

vika yakymenko. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion documented these destructions and then, together with the designer, they created such a project of a flashlight showing how it looked before and how it looked after, this is an international poster campaign in support of ukraine, here we just presented this campaign, so several... are now in the space of the center, but in general, this is a project that is located in the urban space. this project was initiated by the kharkiv association of graphic designers, fourth block. on february 24 , 2023, their team launched the stand with ukraine campaign. its essence is that designers from all over the world expressed their support for ukraine by creating posters. thus

, the fourth block included more than a thousand works from different countries. anyone could get these posters for free by filling out an application on the project's website. for example, to hold an action in support of ukraine in any country, you can print out posters and take them to a support action, and many such events took place in european countries, exhibitions were held in america from korea, china, and japan , well, actually from... from all continents. that's how the idea came up exhibition of posters in kharkiv. i was very sorry that this was not seen in kharkiv. we thought that it would be good if, after all , the people of kharkiv could show that there is such strong support for ukraine. we kharkiv residents should feel that the world is with us. when we decided to do all this, there was a kind of pause, the world was tired of war.