Serhiy Kolesnyk

It is almost for a millennium that Chernihiv’s Catacombs of St. Anthony have been in the focus of public interest. For some, it is a Christian shrine, for others a prominent example of underground architecture, and still for others a haunted place. THE FATHER OF MEDIEVAL RUS’ MONASTICISM...

For centuries, Chernihiv, the chief town of the Siveriane Slavic tribe and the largest historical center of Northern Left Bank Ukraine, was capital of a state or a major territorial and administrative unit, such as principality, regiment, voyevodstvo, province, or region. But this was not always so...

The Seventh Military Orchestra of the Northern Strategic Command stationed at Chernihiv recently publicly performed compositions based on music dating from the Stone Age. The theme was developed in the last century. When digging at the Mezyn prehistoric human settlement site dating back some 20...

Chernihiv occupies a unique place in the history and culture of Eastern Europe. It is only here that you can still see a series of pre-Mongol- invasion monuments that represent all the consecutive stages of the almost 200-year-long history of Kyivan Rus architecture. This wonderful string of...

Ukraine has proclaimed a course toward integration into the European Union and NATO, the two elite clubs. What exactly will the next president have to do to achieve this goal? Volodymyr TANDURA, Associate Professor, Chernihiv Shevchenko State University: “The future president should...

Over the past several months polls have shown a decreasing number of Ukrainians favoring NATO membership, a fact that has been actively capitalized upon by the opponents of Euro-Atlantic integration. In addition, it may also cause problems with the Ukraine-NATO dialogue. In keeping with the...