Viktoriia Grivina

The connection via a destroyed Losova station has been renewed in two days. Ukraine should be helped even just for how much this country wants to live. Photo by Nataliia Mykhaylychenko.

This Kharkiv cat is surprised by the audacity of you all.

Oh dear, I empathize. But I’m also a poor Ukrainian sitting under bombs right now. 🫠

These Kharkiv ducks are park designers.

Kharkiv architecture goes far beyond constructivism and totalitarian styles. There’s a lot of hidden Art Deco and Art Nouveau.

How to phrase it as if the Soviet Union wasn’t at all a colonial state 🥴😁(Tamara Dragadze, 1978):

Diversity of anthropology in Soviet Union as always impresses 😁. It’s hard not to see Moscow/Leningrad as an imperial cluster that studies the savage “others” on the occupied lands. Here’s a list of delegation that met US colleagues in a 1945 Moscow convention.

Train stations hold so many memories, meetings with loved ones and partings with places of the heart. Tonight russian military destroyed a beautiful station in Losova, where trains would take you to the sea, to the steppes…

These Kharkiv cats are your Monday consultants. Ask away.

Sometimes you need to spend the weekend learning how to stop a massive bleed. 🩸 in hope to never need it.

This Kharkiv kitler is preparing for a weekend party.

Kharkiv Wartime Roastery Despite unimaginable challenges, Kharkiv lives, grows — and drinks a damn good coffee. Introducing the new Proton+ roastery.

A great article about a new Kharkiv wartime coffee roastery, opened this month: medium.com/@nadiianosko...

This Kharkiv cat is a renowned bartender.

Kharkiv summer.

Honoured to have a wonderful architect Bohdan Volynskyi to write a preface for Kharkiv is a Dream:

Working in the catalogue is quite fun as well though. Fingers crossed, restoration will be completed before winter.

The building of Kharkiv central library was designed in 1901 by Oleksyi Beketov, and in 1906 thanks to Beketov, Alchevskyi and other local enthusiasts the first Ukrainian library department was opened. Where does 1886 come from? It is the year when the library was founded.

a beautiful reading room of the library, which then looked like this. The history of the building is quite interesting 👇

Kharkiv Central Library today. This used to be the grand ballroom and then the main reading room. Walking up the elegant winding stairs I see instead of the usual room this. The librarian says “terribly sorry” and leads to the catalogue room downstairs. In 2020 I worked in 👇

This Kharkiv cat is a street detective.

Boiling corn, a typical relaxing food from childhood, only having to hide from a possible russian bomb in a hallway just when you need to switch off the gas, is not from childhood.

This Chernihiv cat is wishing all a cheerful and energetic week.

This Chernihiv cat is my Sunday mood.

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This Kharkiv cat asks you to read about Kharkiv today, and support its air defense. Save Kharkiv. Help.

Замальовки на Палаці Спорту 02.08./18:00 – 20:00 🌱2 серпня з 18:00 до 20:00 прогулянка із замальовками в районі метро Палац Спорту від Платформи сучасного мистецтва та резиденції «Тихий центр» Запрошуємо вас разом помалювати, поспілкуватися, роздив...

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🌱2 серпня з 18:00 прогулянка із замальовками в районі метро Палац Спорту від Платформи сучасного мистецтва та резиденції «Тихий центр»

• Роздивимось дворики;
• Поговоримо про Готель «Турист»;
• Відвідаємо Платформу сучасного мистецтва;

🌱Беріть:
• альбом/скетчбук
• олівець/ ручки

Реєстрація 👇

Хто в Харкові - наступної суботи не пропустіть арт прогулянку! Реєстрація і подробиці 👇.

This Kharkiv cat wishes all a good end of the week.

Kharkiv sky at dusk is as usual - pure poetry.