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  Дерево Життя

  In Soviet times, the panel "The Tree of Life" was part of the decor of a Mariupol restaurant called "Ukraine" (now - "Aristocrat"). The sketches were made by the mosaic makers themselves.
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  Гетьман Петро Конашевич-Сагайдачний

  A statue of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, who served as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host from 1616-1622. The statue is located in Manhush (Donetsk Oblast).
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  Stone Vyshyvankas of Tavria

  Nova Kakhovka is a young town in the north of Tavria, built in the 1950s for the builders of the Kakhovka hydroelectric complex. All the buildings here were built to a unified plan, constructed in haste, and they turned out to be monotonous and unexceptional. Then Hryhorii Dovzhenko, an artist and a follower of the Boichukist school, came to the town. Together with his colleagues, Dovzhenko created 80 unique carved panels which would come to decorate the walls of every building and change the face of the town. Later the Soviet press would criticise Dovzhenko for “architectural excesses”. Today his pieces are considered to be an artistic phenomenon which contemporaries named “stone vyshyvankas”. These days, the ornaments are under threat — not just from the passage of time, but from building insulation and the “modernisation” of the facades as well. Thanks to the actions of local activists, however, the “stone vyshyvankas” are gradually being restored to the town.
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  Будинок Гампера

  The House of Gamper is a neo-gothic building in Mariupol named in honor of Serhii Gamper (1859-1911) a doctor and chief physician in Mariupol.
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  альтанки, що стоїть край гори

  This gazebo of Boldyni Hory Park in the Boldy Mountains was built in honor of Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Chernihiv in 1911. A tea ceremony was organised in the gazebo for the emperor. It has remained since then a romantic place for the visitors of the park.
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  Музейний комплекс «Козацький двір»

  A photo of a room from the museum complex “Cossack Yard," a reconstruction of the historical environment of Baturyn of the post-Hetman period. It displays the estate of a rich Cossack family with the name of Mokhna. The preserved house of the 20th century reproduces household, manufacturing, leisure and worldview culture of the Baturyn family, which retained its class features till the beginning of the 20th century.
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  [Two gravestones in the Ushomyr Jewish Cemetery]

  Two combined images of tombstones in the Ushomyr Jewish Cemetery (Korosten district) with inscriptions in Hebrew.
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  Umanskiy family, Ananyev 1960’s

  Members of the Umanskiy family; members returned to Ananyev after WWII. In the 1960s, the minyan was held in the Leya Odivets’ house with Yefim Schoklet (1890-1960), Umansky (1878-1957), Goichinder (1852-1959), Beilin Mikhail among the congregation.
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  Алла Гербурт Йогансен перед Будинком "Слово"

  A photograph depicting artist, author and translator Alla Herburt Ǐohansen and two children in front of the "Slovo" House in Kharkiv, а residential house built by the literary authors' cooperative in late 1920s.
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  Половецкие каменные бабы

  A photograph of sacred monuments created by the Polovtsians (Kipchaks) in 9th-13th centuries.