Mykola Khriienko

For quite a while our newspaper has been holding cultural and educational actions (not to be confused with campaigns) to celebrate certain memorial years, associated with landmarks in the lives of outstanding Ukrainians who suffered unfair oblivion due to deliberate perversions of history. Our...

Nicely dressed, with the Ukrainian and Russian flags in their hands and decorations on their chests, the Chornobyl disaster fighters Anatolii Kozhevnikov, Viacheslav Dudaliev, Vladimir Mikhailov, Igor Golovchonov, Vladimir Shchepanskiy, Aleksandr Lazunko and Vladimir Shatygin gathered near the...

Shortly after the Urals Ridge, our train turned right and headed straight north for Vorkuta. Having put up at a cheap hotel – in fact a railroad men’s hostel – near the railway station, I took a photo camera and went out to see the city. After a modern beau­tiful Salekhard, Vorkuta made a painful...

I was covered with road dust after a many-kilometer march to Piria Rock as I reached Krasnoyarsk late in the evening, when an old acquaintance of mine and a fellow journalist Petro Dubynin said, “Mykola, you are lucky: your fellow countryman Borys Nakonechny returned yesterday from the...

This year’s October marks the end of the 25-year imprisonment of Petro Kalnyshevsky, the first Ukrainian prisoner of the Solovetsky Monastery. After the victory over Turkey and practical surrender of the Crimean Khanate (the Crimea became an official part of the Russian Empire in 1783)...

Having come by train from Kem to Medvezhyegorsk (which was already Karelia’s territory back then), I immediately rushed to the Sandarmokh forest massif, as I did not want to put this off by the next day, because the weather could grow worse. It is located in a forest near the 19th kilometer...

The most important thing in my journalist expeditions is that I am constantly moving ahead, whereas the selection of text material and photo shooting is an improvisation, like in jazz. Only after having visited, on car and on feet, over the most interesting places in Vorkuta and its neighborhood...

Jan Czerski… Ivan Chersky… – I have heard this name for the first time in one of the radio programs when I was a kid and was reading, often a couple times in a row, books like Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, and Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen. At that time I searched in...

“Historical appeal of Ukrainian pioneers” is the title of the in-depth and large-scale research project dedicated to the 120th anniversary of settlement of Ukrainians in Canada. On the initiative of the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine Ihor Ostash...

I still keep a copy of the Radianska Ukraina of April 29, 1986, carrying a brief notice by the Council of Ministers of the USSR: “An incident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant has led to damage to one of the nuclear reactors. Relief efforts are under way. The victims are getting help. A...