Category: History

13.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Ukrainian Children's Fairy Tales by Grigory Danilevsky. 1860

Today, in the “Bedtime Stories” section, we feature Ukrainian children’s fairy tales by the outstanding…

13.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Kharkiv is the “true capital of Little Russia,” and “in terms of educational institutions, it…

13.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

The story continues: the first monuments to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv. Throughout its 360-year history,…

11.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Is there a Kharkiv dialect of the Ukrainian language? Indeed, there is! In any case,…

11.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

More stories about the first Shevchenko monuments in Kharkiv. In 1912, an apartment building designed…

10.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

As everyone knows, by the second half of the 18th century, Kharkiv’s first regimental coat…

10.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Many people know that what is probably the first monument to great Ukrainian poet Taras…

28.03.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

A video recording of the lecture “Kharkiv Confectionery,” which we dedicated to “sweet” Kharkiv in…

28.02.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

On February 28, 2015, we gathered at the INDIE Cultural Center at Chernyshevska Street, 4…

10.02.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

The legendary oceanographer and Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1922.…