A man on scaffolding, painting the interior of the Church of the Transfiguration, Kharkiv, holding paint in one hand, and a thin paintbrush in the other.
From June 21 to July 23, 2017, on the initiative of the mayor of Dnipro B.A. Filatov and the Department of Strategic Development and Investments of Dnipro, the city street art festival "Mural Fest Dnipro" was held. During the month, ten murals appeared in Dnipro. Muralists from Kharkiv, Odesa, Mariupol, Lviv and Kyiv decorated the Dnipro.
An oral interview of Shapoval Alexander Savovich, a Holodomor survivor, recorded by Vyhodovanets′ Olga Vasylivna and Artemenko Larysa Olehivna in Kostiantynivka village, Smilyansky district, Cherkasy region.
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.
In the Kherson Region, Ksenia Malyukova and her creative group visited the village of Mala Kardashinka, Holoprystan district. This is an ancient farm of Oleshkiv Volost, Dnipro County, Tavriy Province, founded in 1837 as a result of the reorganization of the Kardashyn farms. The necklace looks quite unusual. In the South, such a glass necklace, similar to a bright Christmas tree decoration, was called "scales" and was worn on major holidays.