Serhiy Bovkun

Geneticist Viacheslav Konovalov is one of a handful of Ukrainian experts who know the truth about Chornobyl’s impact on human and animal organisms. This scientist has studied plant and animal life in the Exclusion Zone for more than a decade. Still active in the field, he is on the academic staff...

For many blind people, talking PCs with voice-recognition software are the only means of staying in contact with the rest of the world. A Ukrainian-language version will soon become available in our country, The Day was told by its creator, Oleh Kutishchev, a resident of Korosten in Zhytomyr oblast...

The first solo exhibit of Leonid Shevchuk, one of Ukraine’s best regional photographers and member of the National Union of Ukrainian Journalists, has opened in Zhytomyr. More than 60 of Shevchuk’s best works are on display. Among the photos are topical on-the-spot shots, portraits of pop stars and...

A big gray wolf bares its teeth at me. Next to it industrious beavers are preoccupied with building their dam, next to them a female fox plays with her pups, and above them a white-tailed sea eagle spreads its colossal wings. All these exhibits are from the unique and arguably the largest museum of...

Hugging each other in a friendly fashion, Moroz and Vitrenko, Tymoshenko and Lytvyn, Yushchenko and Yanukovych, and other Ukrainian political figures are briskly dancing in the middle of a snow-covered city square. All around are hundreds of onlookers. The spectators laugh heartily in response to...

Ukrainians who are more or less well-versed in history must have heard of Subotiv, a small village in Cherkasy oblast, which was the family estate of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. It is one of the many tiny villages that became great by force of history. But Subotiv has some counterparts that were not as...

There is a place not far from the center of Zhytomyr, which is off limits to tourists. Actually, few residents bother to visit. It is a small street dead-ended by the stone wall of the Catholic Cemetery, bordering on a row of garages and impenetrable brush. A closer look, however, reveals...

This energetic, gray-haired gentleman, who looks much younger than he actually is (he turned 80 on September 4), is a living legend indeed. Loftiness is quite justifiable in this case. The Zhytomyr-based veteran construction worker Franz Brzezycki is Ukraine’s only surviving ex-prisoner of the...

The Ukrainian-Polish history of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries is a stormy whirlwind of Cossack and peasant uprisings against magnates and the nobility, and oppression of Orthodox believers, which culminated in the mid-sixteenth century with the National Ukrainian Revolution led by...

History decreed that Zhytomyr always had two large religious communities of almost the same size: Orthodox and Catholic. In the two centuries, when the city was part of the Polish Kingdom, it was made the Polish capital of Volhynia, a center of Catholicism in Right Bank Ukraine, and an Episcopal...