The Sinna River. Why Are Our Rivers Disappearing?

5 June — World Environment Day

More and more often alarming signals ring out — rivers and wells are shallowing fast, streams are drying up, springs are silting over, blue mirrors are becoming overgrown with reeds. Why is this happening, and who is to blame? Once our rivers had crystal-clear water, but today they present a depressing sight.

Myrnohrad. Donetsk region. A pond on the Sinna River in the Sinna gully

Novotroitske. The Wooden Holy Ascension Church of 1893

Ancient churches draw believers with their prayer-steeped setting and centuries of history. Pilgrims come to the Holy Ascension Church in the village of Novotroitske in the Donetsk region from all regions of Ukraine to bow before the spiritual relics and to see the only wooden church in the Pokrovsk district that has survived in its original form since 1893.

Novotroitske, Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region. Holy Ascension Church. 1893.

Museums in Ukraine. Rich Collections and Varied Themes

In Ukraine there are about 5 thousand museums of the most varied themes. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism owns about half a thousand museums, but far more of them exist under various departments, educational institutions and at enterprises. A great many private museum displays have been opened by collectors and at tourist locations. The map of Ukraine's museums is being replenished with new unique sites where millions of rare exhibits are kept. The largest area is occupied by the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Pyrohiv.

Pyrohiv. The National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life. The Church of the Resurrection. Kysorychi, Rivne region, 18th century.

The Carpathian Tram. The Best Attraction of Prykarpattia

In Ukraine several narrow-gauge railways have survived — the Borzhava one in Zakarpattia, one in Antonivka in the Rivne region, one in Holovanivsk in the Kirovohrad region, and one in the settlement of Vyhoda in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Vyhoda, Dolyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. A tour along the narrow-gauge railway by Carpathian tram

Memorials of the Second World War Across Ukraine

Wherever you go in our country, in a city or in a small village, everywhere you come across tank monuments in parks, modest gravestones by the road, obelisks on the grounds of enterprises and schools, and memorial plaques on the facades of buildings.

Myrnohrad. Donetsk region. War memorial

The Nykonorivka Spring. Nature and the Work of Hands

The Nykonorivka spring gives people clean water and the joy of communing with nature.

The Nykonorivka spring, the Kliuchyk ravine. Sloviansk district, Donetsk region

A Photo Journey with a Bitter Aftertaste. Lysivka Council

The quarantine restrictions on the work of public transport could not but affect the choice of routes. Hiking in rural areas, where crowds are not to be seen but a walk through unfamiliar places promises to be instructive, was so far not prohibited. The choice fell on the settlements of the Lysivka rural council of the Pokrovsk district in the Donetsk region.

Lysivka, Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region. Lysivka rural council

Kramatorsk. The Landscape Park and Nature Reserves

18 April — Environment Day

On the third Saturday of April, Ukraine marks the ecological professional holiday, Environment Day. Protected areas in the agglomerations of the industrial cities of Donbas especially need the strengthening of nature-conservation measures.

Section No. 1 "Bilenke". Kramatorsk regional landscape park

Chunyshyne Station. Neglected, Closed, Forgotten

A small photo-report about the closed Chunyshyne station was planned, but one wants to show every corner of the abandoned railway station. Small stations, welcoming, tidy, become unprofitable and are closed, deciding the fates of the people who worked here and the fates of the stations, those abandoned toilers. Perhaps here someone waited for a suburban train in the waiting hall, someone met and saw off their relatives and friends.

Stryi. A City of Historical and Architectural Heritage

«Stryi is a European city» — such slogans can be seen in this Subcarpathian district centre in the Lviv region. It is impossible to build a future without knowing your own origins and without preserving the cultural heritage for those who come after.

Stryi, Lviv region. The sign on the road roundabout