Culture

Vernadsky Library: From early printed books to modern digital services

Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine (NBUV) is the main intellectual and scientific information center of the country. The NBUV team are unique specialists and scientific researchers. They write dissertations, possess rare restoration skills, work with primary sources, and provide state-of-the-art digital services, developing electronic archives for online readers around the world. Photo by Roman Malenkov, from the website Ukraine incognita.…

Stanisław Vincenz Prize laureate Ivan Malkovych on the Ukrainian state and victory

"I dream of a revived Ukrainian paradise and that in the words "native land" we hear "paradise" and in the word "Ukraine" we hear "paradise", because these are our paradises," said poet, publisher and Shevchenko Prize laureate Ivan Malkovych in an interview with "The Ukrainians Media". On May 10, Ivan Malkovych turned 65 years old, and his legendary...

A discussion about Eastern Carpathian roots of Europe and the legacy of Stanisław Vincenz will be held in Wroclaw

The Eastern Carpathians are a border region not only geographically, but also culturally. Here, the traditions and history of the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe have been intertwined for centuries. It was this multiculturalism that was explored in his work by Stanisław Vincenz - an outstanding expert on the Hutsul Region and Pokuttia, as well as the ancient heritage of Ancient Greece. It is the ideas of humanism, cultural dialogue and mutual understanding that Stanisław Vincenz professed that will become...

Vincenz Prize laureate Yosyf Zisels shared his memories of the Ukrainian dissident movement

Yosyf Zisels is a laureate of the 2023 Stanisław Vincenz Prize, awarded for humanistic service and a contribution to regional development, during the annual Via Carpatia International Forum. In the program "Life during the war", a well-known human rights defender talked about his acquaintance with the Ukrainian 1960s. According to Yosyf Zisels, in the mid-1960s, he was deliberately looking for representatives of the Ukrainian...