Natalia Zhyratiuk

Chernivtsi has started a new tradition: every noonday a trumpeter on the tower of Chernivtsi City Hall plays the melody of the world famous song “Marichka,” which has become Bukovyna’s unofficial anthem. The trumpeter is Petro Tsurkan, a student at Chernivtsi College of Arts, who considers it an...

Formerly, this village was the center of Russian Old Believers. Today, it is home to no more than 150 villagers. They cherish their traditions and language, but, as they like to joke, their “youngest bridegroom is past 60.” In the summertime, children come to stay occasionally, but in the...