Yellow Line: Revitalizing Museum in Ukraine's Donbas
Yellow caution tape is used to draw attention to potential danger. Beyond this fragile boundary one may see a hole in the ground or a crumbling wall mosaic or some other public hazard.
Yellow Line is a series of exhibitions in the Donetsk region aimed at drawing attention to local historical monuments, architecture, and monumental art at risk of being lost. Its organizers include Olha Honchar, director of the Territory of Terror museum in Lviv. She and her team have been traveling to eastern Ukraine since 2015 to help local museums bring their working methods and formats up to date.
Visiting five cities on the Ukrainian side of the contact line in five days, the cultural activists observed how local landmarks are being maintained and asked local residents whether they were ready to preserve these historic monuments. They left five public display boards in each city, reminding residents of their local heritage.
Each city has a unique cultural history, interwoven with both the Soviet and European past. For example, Druzhkivka was once a center for ceramic production. Its porcelain tea sets were common in apartments all over the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Kostiantynivka is known for its glass industry, established by Belgian entrepreneurs in the 19th century.
In Pokrovsk the museum welcomes young volunteers and is open to experimentation, whereas Sloviansk is inclined toward preservation, especially of its public outdoor mosaics. And the coal-mining town Dobropillia has no local museum. Yet projects like Yellow Line are organized expressly to facilitate the creation and development of local museums.
Hromadske attended the openings of the Yellow Line project’s five exhibitions last winter to see how cultural activists from Ukraine’s west and east are cooperating to highlight local cultural heritage.
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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church In Donetsk
What You Need To Know:
✓ Greek Catholic church is still operating in Donetsk despite the conflict
✓ Many priests belonging to the Greek Catholic Church have left the region
✓ If there are people, there will be a church,” Father Mykhailo explains
In Donetsk city, a Greek Catholic church is still operating despite the conflict and despite the reported pressure felt by the non-Orthodox religious organisations from the pro-Russia separatist authorities.
“Undoubtedly, the number of wedding ceremonies, which are more joyful services, is smaller,” Father Mykhailo a priest who serves at the church said, but “christenings take place…because [people] feel they are in danger”.
According to Father Mykhailo, many of the priests belonging to the Greek Catholic Church in the Donetsk region have left – some out of fear, others because of the unpredictable nature of the situation.
Some of the church has been damaged from the fighting. Cracks can be seen in the walls. The refectory windows have been shattered and mine fragments have also damaged its outside.
“But all these things don’t matter. All of this is just in addition to the people. Because if there are people, there will be a church,” Father Mykhailo explained to Hromadske.
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2,700 Year Old Scythian Statue Found In Ukraine War Zone
2,700 Year Old Scythian Statue Found in Ukraine War zone
A unique early Scythian sculpture from dense sandstone, which was recently found in a mound near the checkpoint “Marinovka” in the Shakhtarsky district, was brought to the Donetsk Republican Museum of Local Lore. As reported in the DRKM, the age of this stone Scythian sculpture is about 2700 years.
“Some time ago we received a call from the department of culture of the administration of the city of Shakhtersk and reported that they had allegedly found a stone statue on a mound not far from the checkpoint Marinovka (people call them“ stone women ”). At first we didn’t particularly believe this information and asked to send photos of the find. What was our surprise when on the photograph sent from Shakhtersk we saw not a Polovtsian, but a Scythian sculpture, which is almost 2000 years older than medieval stone statues! These unique sculptures - Scythian sculptures - are extremely rare in our steppe. Of course, we very quickly organized and went for this statue, ”Anatoly Usachuk, senior researcher of the scientific and methodological department for the protection of monuments of archeology of the Donetsk Republican Regional Museum, told the official website of the DPR. Stone sculpture found border guards
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euronews reporter - Ukraine's ailing powerhouse
As Ukraine's legislative election nears, the temperature of the campaign is warming up.
In the heavy industry hub of Donbass, in South-Eastern Ukraine, people have already made up their minds.
This mining and steel region is the stronghold of president Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions, and people here are standing by their leader.
Mykola Shmigol is proud of his job as a blast-furnace keeper for Donetsksteel.
Today he and his wife are celebrating their 25th anniversary. The whole family is having lunch at the Center for Slavic Culture in Donetsk, a club funded by his company.
I've been working for more than 10 years, 12 years at this plant, says Mykola. Here at the Donetsk metallurgical plant we get the full package. Starting with the protective work suit - jackets and gloves -, full social cover, including holidays and sick leave. So I think that workers here are fully protected.
His wife Elena doesn't work:
I do not work, my husband doesn't let me, she says. He loves and values me very much. I stay at home, take care of the house and our children, their studies. I like my life, my beloved husband is near, what else do I need?
Mykola earns 900 euros a month.
That's a good wage in a country where the average monthly salary stands at around 250-300 euros.
It enables him and his family to enjoy a certain quality of life.
We have stability. I don't think it will be any better with a new government. We saw it already. It didn't affect the steel industry, coal production, agriculture or the Ukrainian economy, says Mykola.
But the tough reality of the global economic crisis could soon pose a threat to Mykola's family's safe haven.
It is not a secret that these are not the best of times for the steel industry, especially in Europe and the CIS, says Andriy Yemchenko, deputy general manager at Donetsksteel.
However, the energy-saving technologies that we have introduced help factories survive and move forward.
However, energy-saving technologies may not be enough for companies to continue providing their employees with a good standard of living.
Global competition is tough.
Ukrainian producers are not very efficient in terms of elaborating, designing new steel products, says Ihor Burakovsky, Director of the Institute for economic research and policy consulting.
It means that what we are producing is of medium quality, and in this sector in particular we are up against extremely tough competition, like China for example.
Along with the steel industry, the government's power relies heavily on the coal mining industry.
Donbass is one of the country's major mining regions, and coal is an important political weapon.
Euronews met a miner as he got ready for his early morning shift.
Sergiy Abrosimov lives with his wife and son on the outskirts of Donetsk.
The morning starts and my dog wakes me up. He has his own internal clock and he knows that I wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning. If the alarm doesn't ring, my dog will wake me up, for sure, he says.
Sergiy is master shaft sinker at the Pokrovske Colliery Group.
While he may have to rise early for work, he knows he is better off than most Ukrainians.
The mine where he works belongs to the same holding as the Donetsksteel plant, now owned by a Russian oligarch.
Sergiy has been working there for many years.
I can afford many things, as I've been working for 30 years, I have experience and some savings, says Sergiy.
I can afford a good car, a rest at a sanatorium, travels abroad. Living conditions have changed since the Soviet times, everything is developing fast. There are no restrictions and people live a normal life.
Ukraine's coal mining industry is outdated and inefficient. It is heavily subsidised - just keeping it afloat costs the state an estimated one billion euros a year. Much of it goes to Donetsk.
For a miner, 2,000 or 3,000 euros is an excellent salary, says Sergiy. It would be for anyone in Ukraine - with that kind of salary, you can afford a lot!
Other regions view this generous policy towards Donbass miners with much scepticism. But he says they deserve their high salaries:
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Cossacks helped Russia get Crimea from Turkey 39:43
Donbas (East) 56:55
Crimea turned over to Ukraine 2:16:28
Russia 12:46 / 31:16
UKRAINE - THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2008) / A Jerzy Hoffman Film
1:34 Kyiv (401 - 500)
2:16 Byzantium (330–1453)
2:45 Princess Olga (890 - 969) adopted Christianity
3:28 Chersonesus in Crimea
4:06 Volodymyr the Great (958 - 1015)
4:29 Prince Yaroslav the Wise (978 - 1054)
4:39 Saint Sophia's Cathedral (1100)
5:31 Anna the Queen of France (1030 – 1075)
6:41 Volodymyr II Monomakh (1053-1125)
7:20 Yuri Dolgorukiy (1099 - 1157)
7:26 Moscow
7:37 The Mongols
10:16 The Principality of Galicia–Volhynia or Kingdom of Rus
10:49 Lviv
12:37 Ivan III of Russia (1440-1505)
12:46 The myth about Russia
13:07 Crimea
13:53 Roxolana (1502 – 1558)
15:20 serfdom (Polish oppression)
15:40 printing press
17:14 Zaporizhian Sich
18:33 Ukraine replaces the name Rus
18:40 cossack
20:15 Brest Union
20:18 The uniates
21:08 Hetman Sagaidachny (1570 - 1622)
23:05 Orthodoxy
23:28 Yarema Vyshnevetsky (1612 – 1651)
23:31 Catholicism
24:54 Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595 – 1657)
30:04 The Pereyaslav Council -------------------------------------------------1654
34:39 Ivan Mazepa (1639 - 1709)
37:06 The Battle of Poltava on 27 June 1709
40:11 Zaporizhian Sich (1552-1709)
40:27 Solovki
French Revolution--------------------------------------------------------------------- 1789
47:03 Dumy - historical ballads
48:18 Greek Catholic Church banned
48:49 Kyiv University (1833)
49:48 The Order of Basilian Fathers
50:55 Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861) (age 47)
54:57 Blue and yellow banner
55:45 The Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood
56:32 national liberation movement
56:55 Crimean War ----------------------------------------------------- 1853 to 1856
57:07 Alexander II (1818 - 1881) abolished serfdom
57:26 city of Donetsk (1868)
58:56 Green wedge
59:23 Volodymyr Antonovych (1834 - 1908)
59:28 Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841-1895 )
1:00:42 Lesya Ukrainka (1871 - 1913) (aged 42)
1:02:13 The Shevchenko Scientific Society (1873 )
1:11:03 Mykhailo Hrushevsky
1:03:27 Ivan Franko (1856 - 1916)
1:04:22 History of Ukraine-Ruthenia
1:04:49 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865 - 1944) 1:45:42
1:06:31 World War I------------------------------------------------------------------1914
1:07:32 Dmitro Dontsov (1883 - 1973)
1:07:57 (1914) Russian occupation
1:11:24 Symon Petliura
1:11:24 West Ukrainian People's Republic
1:19:27 Ukrainian Galician Army
1:23:30 Nestor Makhno
1:30:48 The Russian famine ----------------------------------------------------1921
1:41:21 Ukr National Democratic Alliance, (UNDO)
1:42:20 Ukr Sich Riflemen
1:42:43 (UVO) Ukr Military Organization
1:42:51 Yevhen Konovalets
1:43:10 Dmytro Dontsov
1:44:01 The Organization of Ukr Nationalists (OUN)
1:44:52 (1933) Stepan Bandera head of OUN
1:47:07 Avgustyn Voloshyn
1:47:33 Melnyk's and Bandera's
1:39:06 collectivization (1939)
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World War II ----------------------------------------------------------------(1939 - 1945)
1:51:24 The Nachtigall Battalion (Nightingale)
1:51:43 Independent Ukr State
1:44:50 Stepan Bandera (1909 – 1959) -----------------------------------1933
Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II
Wehrmacht Saves Innocent Civilians In Ukraine 1941
1:53:42 Babi Yar
1:55:40 partisan warfare
1:44:01 Organization of Ukr Nationalists (OUN)
1:57:42 Roman Shukhevych
1:58:37 Volyn
1:58:57 UPA - Ukrainian Insurgent Army
2:00:04 ethnic cleansing (1943)
2:02:32 SS Galicia Division
2:02:33 Banderavists (Bandera) split of OUN (former UVO) 1:47:26
2:02:25 Melnykovites (Melnyk)
2:02:57 SS Galicia crushed by the Red Army
2:04:51 Nikita Khrushchev
2:05:21 Joseph Stalin
1:39:56 RUSYN replaced the term Ukrainian
2:06:14 Gulag
2:06:31 Yalta
2:10:30 Operation Vistula (Polish: Akcja Wisła)
2:12:00 The Greek Catholic Church abolishment
2:12:21 Josyf Slipyj (1893 - 1984)
1:49:25 annexation of the Western Ukraine
2:16:33 turning Crimea over to Ukraine
2:18:25 Thaw (early 1950s to the early 1960s)
2:30:09 (April 26 1986) - Chornobyl disaster
2:35:30 Rukh - Movement
2:37:29 (1991) Declaration of Sovereignty of Ukraine
1:13:48 The Ukr People's Republic of 1918 - 1920
2:50:29 The Orange Revolution (2004)
Tank gun as self stick Video from Russia-Ukraine war (2016)
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Communist Victory No Longer Inevitable — Dismantling a Lenin Statue in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
A statue of Lenin with the words Communist Victory is Inevitable was removed near the regional administration building in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine on June 27, 2014. Local residents came to observe the dismantling of the statue, which will be donated to a historical museum.
Video footage courtesy of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Ukraine Frontline Education: Students In East Ukraine Set Up Museum To Help Bring About Peace
Teachers and students have recovered and restored this small World War II museum in a village school in east Ukraine. Most of the relics from the exposition were destroyed in exchanges of shelling between Russian-backed militants and Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk region.
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Выставка оккупантов в Донецке
В Донецком областной краеведческом музее оккупационые власти открыли несколько своих стендов.
У Донецькому обласному краєзнавчому музеї окупаційної влади відкрили кілька своїх стендів.
Posted 23.05.2015
Occupants’ exhibition in Donetsk
Occupants fixed several stands in Donetsk Regional Museum of Local Studies.
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Ukraine War Video shows intense fighting at Donetsk airport
Framing the Liberation War in Donbass
Beyond Left and Right, Beyond Red and White: Framing the Liberation War in Donbass
Помимо слева и справа, за красный и белый: обрамление освободительной войны в Донбассе.
The year 2014 saw an unprecedented surge of patriotism in contemporary Russia, which resulted in popularizing the notion of the Russian World. One reason for increased patriotic sentiment was Crimea’s return to the home port after the overwhelmingly positive vote by its majority-Russian residents in a referendum one year ago. The onset of the liberation war in Donbass from the West-backed Kiev regime was the other. This war truly delineated the stakes for the existence of the Russian World. The latter is not an ethnic, but a civilizational concept that encompasses shared culture, history, and language in the Eurasian space within a traditionalist framework. To a certain extent and despite the obvious ideological differences, the Russian Empire and the USSR embodied the same geopolitical entity. A particularly noteworthy aspect of the ongoing crisis in Donbass is the symbolism—religious and historic—that surpasses the commonly used, but outdated Left-Right political spectrum. In the Russian context, this also means overcoming the Red-White divide of the Communist Revolution. That this war pushed Russians to examine their country’s raison d’être is somewhat remarkable: for two decades its citizens did not have an official ideology, prohibited by the Constitution that is based on Western models. The emergence of a new way of thinking in Russia will become clearer once we refer to the meaning of religious insignia, wars—Russian Civil and Great Patriotic, as well as the question of ideology in the Postmodern world.
From an Article Written By Nina Kouprianova.
HalynaMyroslavaJump/ГалинаМирослава Стрибок
Thanks to Yukhim Kharabet or Yefim Harabet,
( July 29, 1929, the village of Anadol',Donetsk Region - 2004, Mariupol, Donetsk Region) -a famous Ukrainian medalist, Greek,was born in a peasant family. He graduated from Mariupol school and worked as a seamen in the Navy. Worked on lands during the campaign in their assimilation
In 1963 he returned to Mariupol.
Since 1970 - Director of Mariupol art workshops.
Since 1978 - a member of the National Union of Artists of USSR.
1993 - Honored Artist of USSR.
1997 - Honorary Citizen of Mariupol
1999 - The order For merits» III century.
He took part in a lot of exhibitions.
1981 - in Aden (Yemen)
1882 - participated in the 15th Berynh's sea expedition and exhibition
1985, 1989 - in Magdeburg (Germany)
1991 - in Moscow, in the House of Peoples' Friendship
1993 - in Atlanta on the 2nd festival Slavonic Bazaar
2002 - in Paris at the exhibition World Federation medal art.
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Severyn Borachok, Северин Борачок (1898,Sorots'ke, Terebovlia District, Ternopil' Region,Ukraine - 1975,Richmond,USA). His father was a priest.After high school he studied at Cracow Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris .. Organized Ukrainian Museum in Terebovlia , which was opened on August 30, 1933.
It is known that he lived and worked in Paris in the early 1930s.He founded After World War II he settled in Munich, where he became a close friend of Gregor Kruk. After the death of his wife in 1962, Borachok decided to move to the United States of America. In 1965 he moved to Richmond, Maine. Between 1969-1972, Borachok exhibited his works in Toronto, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago. The exhibitions were organized by his brother, Maryan Borachok. The artist died in Maine in 1975.
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Eмануель Мане-Кац ,born Mane Leyzerovich Kats, (1894,Kremenchuk,Ukraine-- 1962,Haifa, Israel)
Mane-Katz was Jewish.In the years 1911-13 he studied at Kiev Art College, then moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with an art movement known as the Jewish School of Paris.
In 1931, Mane-Katz's painting, The Wailing Wall, was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Early on, his style was classical and somber, but his palette changed in later years to bright, primary colors, with an emphasis on Jewish themes. His oils feature Hassidic characters, rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, yeshiva students and scenes from the East European shtetl.
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Hrihorii Synytsia or Hryhory, Hryhoriy Sinitsa,Григорій Синиця (1908, Odesa, Ukraine - 1996). In 1914 he fell ill on the hip joint ankylosis, and then back fever, had been ill but recovered leaving the hospital for the disabled children (although the leg was almost 20 cm shorter hip and bent parts of the skeleton).
Innovator, inventor, leader, he had to live during the endless changes, suffer pain recognition for what would be a Ukrainian artist all life to go Blade, die and resurrect. Surviving three changes of regime, revolution, war, two famines, the struggle of an independent art, the Soviet press was accused of bourgeois formalism but he was not broken by the system, and remained independent in the works, plastic figurative and picturesque language. He graduated from a thorny path in the age of 88 (10 October 1996) to free Ukraine, where he was recognized for life, which unfortunately did not happen with many outstanding sons of Ukraine
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Mykola Samokysh or Samokish (Микола Самокиш)
(1860,Nizhyn, Chernihiv Region,Ukraine - 1964, Simferopol, the Crimea,Ukraine).During his studies at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1879 - 1885) he belonged to the Ukrainian group of artists (S. Vasilkovsky, P. Martinovich, O. Slastion) who set out to recreate historical events and national peculiarities of life and the life of Ukrainian people. In 1886 - 1889 years studied in Paris. Returning from abroad, painted several paintings for Tyflis military-historical museum.In 1894 - 1917's led the battle of Petersburg Academy workshop (from 1913 was a professor and full member). From 1919 he lived in the Crimea. In 1938 the head of battle and historical workshopsat Kharkiv and Kyiv Art Institute.
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Halyna Myroslava Jump
Галина Мирослава Стрибок
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все ніколиться
мчиш за часом
жердь для стрибка завжди в тобі
серце вузлує заразом
але ти чуєш плі
і починаєш біг свій
в жгут затиснувши жаль
буде вино чи попіл
планка
там планка
рай
вистрибом взліт угору крила б
не в тому суть
стачить чи ні напору
а чи не підведуть
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NAF got themselves a Texan. American volunteer talks about a fallen comrade Belka.
US-born volunteer for NAF with a callsign Texas talks about his fallen friend Belka [Belyakov Evgeniy Sergeevich] who lost his life in the defense of Donetsk Airport. A short excerpt from an hour long documentary about fallen NAF soldiers.
Watch Donetsk Road Sign Being Russified By Separatists
Pro-Russian separatists in East Ukraine decided to remove the soft sign from a road sign for Donetsk which lies on the road leading into the city. If we are Russian speaking, and yes we are Russian speakers, we want to make it clear for everyone what is correct Russian. We’re educating people in correct usage, one of the separatists told Hromadske.
By removing the soft sign the city's name is now spelt in Russian as opposed to Ukrainian. He further explained, Ukrainian held territory everything is written in Ukrainian...It’s just we pass by it all the time. This is the territory we are responsible for and we wanted to change it.
// Video by Hromadske.East. Filmed 04.30.2015
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