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Jan 24, 2020 · Abstract. This article examines the first published ethnographic map of Ukraine, which appeared in Lviv in 1861. While carefully analyzing new archival and published sources from both the Habsburg and Romanov empires, it puts this map into the wider context of a contemporary Ukrainian national movement. I argue that Russian Ukrainian activists ...
The old town of Lviv. Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів ⓘ, L’viv; Polish: Lwów; German: Lemberg or Leopoldstadt [citation needed] (archaic); Yiddish: לעמבערג; Russian: Львов, romanized: Lvov, see also other names) is an administrative center in western Ukraine with more than a millennium of history as a settlement, and over seven centuries as a city.
Aug 12, 2015 · The conflict in the east is also a product of history. Eastern Ukraine, including Kyiv, belonged to the Russian Empire before 1918 and became part of the Soviet Union in 1922. Galicia was never part of the Russian Empire, and its history within the Soviet Union was shorter than that of its eastern counterpart.
Mar 21, 2022 · Published: March 21, 2022 9:24am EDT. Concerns are mounting that Russian invading forces are seeking to push into western Ukraine, after the region of Lviv was subjected to missile strikes fired ...
- Christoph Mick
- From Lviv to Kyiv
- ‘Putin Is The Devil’
- ‘Tomorrow There May Be No Water Or Electricity’
- ‘They Are Hordes of Savages’
- ‘We Have Tanks, Artillery, Ammunition’
- ‘I Rush to Get to Work’
- Blowing Up The Kremlin with Tom Cruise
- Leaving Kyiv
On the road to the capital, most petrol stations are stocked with fuel. Trucks and cars are still driving through the centre of the country, the Ukrainian "black soil", the breadbasket of Europe, without any trouble. As we approach Kyiv, we join a road along the Dnieper, the great river that crosses Ukraine from north to south. Here, traffic become...
On Sunday March 13, the capital wakes in frozen silence. A few worshippers brave the bitter cold to attend Mass inSt Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. Names and portraits of Ukrainian fighters who have died in Donbas since 2014 cover the walls in places around the building. Metropolitan Epiphanius, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, tells us...
On Monday, March 14, in the streets of Kyiv, rare passers-by queue outside pharmacies and the only supermarkets that are still open. We meet Yuri, who is looking over the city from the balcony of his 13th-floor apartment. His wife and daughter have fled to Sweden. Like all men aged 18 to 60, Yuri can be mobilised at any time. He explains that "the ...
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, apartment buildings inside the city's perimeter are hit by Russian air strikes, as they had been the day before. Former world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv, arrives at the scene, bullet-proof waistcoat on his back. "It's a difficult and dangerous time," he says as firefighters finish put...
When Moscow launched its "special operation" in Ukraine, the Russian military immediately tried to storm the Ukrainian capital by seizing Hostomel airport and sending armed elements into the city. The Ukrainian army fought them off with fierce resistance, and for days there was bloody fighting in the municipalities bordering Kyiv – in Irpin in part...
In Kyiv, the localized explosions have not stopped. But little by little, the inhabitants seem to be getting used to the wait, and to the anxiety. In a supermarket, employees are busy stocking shelves. Among them, Galyna tells us that she "hurries" to work because she has known "her" customers for a long time, they need her and she feels safer at w...
As the weather turns warmer and spring begins to set in, a meeting with a small theatre group quickly turns into a reunion of friends. There is a need to joke and laugh before confronting the tragedy and horror. The Russians are "murdering" the country and it is time for solidarity and combat, until the final victory, say Alex and his 30-year-old f...
On Monday, March 21, the capital wakes up to the images of "Retroville", a brand new shopping centre completely destroyed by a powerful Russian strike. The explosion was heard throughout the city and killed at least eight people, although it is not clear whether the victims were civilians or soldiers. The Russian army claims the fashionable shoppin...
Jan 30, 2024 · The Ukrainian region of Lviv has become the country's first to remove all its Soviet-era monuments, the governor said on Tuesday, part of a broader wartime push to erase all traces of Russian rule.
Mar 7, 2022 · Today, Lviv is the largest city in the western part of Ukraine, and the seventh largest city overall in the country. With recent events between Ukraine and Russia, it bears looking at a city at the crossroads of Europe —even Eurasia, for the Mongols overran the settlement in 1261. Scholar Yaroslav Hrytsak does so in writing that, traditionally:
