Category: Personalities

30.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

Residents of Kharkiv at the Coronation of the Emperor

On May 26, 1896, the ceremonial coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna took place…

26.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

We dedicated the lecture entirely to Nikolai Karazin, an outstanding yet forgotten native of Kharkiv—an…

25.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

One of the active members of the Ukrainian Society named after Kvitka-Osnovianenko was the opera…

24.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

Back in 1961, Kharkiv hosted the FIRST official evening of Bulat Okudzhava’s original songs in…

24.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

The year 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of Nikolai Fedorovich von Ditmar’s birth. Back in…

24.07.2015 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Mar’yanenka Lane in Kharkiv was established in 1972 on the site of the former Proviantsky…

18.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

Evening has fallen, and it is time for me to address our friends from the…

16.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

In 1865, the outstanding artist Nikolai Alexandrovich Sergeev was born in Kharkiv. He was educated…

15.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

In the 1874 Kharkiv calendar, we discover a new side to the Alchevsky family. It…

15.07.2015 / Anton Bondarev

Not everyone whose fate is tied to our city loved it. In 1890, the artist…