This Kharkiv cat has a serious talk.

This Kharkiv cat wishes all an inquisitive week.

“But it’s difficult to hold grudge in heart, when there is so much beauty in the world”.

In the morning russian shaheed drone hit another historical building in Kharkiv. A bookshop nearby is one I always dropped by walking the neighbourhood.

The legacy of Bruno Schulz is sensed everywhere in Drohobych. From a plate on the place he was shot by a Nazi officer, to a humorous word play at a local shoe store - Bruno Shoes. I have never seen such a literary place. Ivan Franko, Mitzkevich, Stefanyk, Schulz.

An old food store building in the Moskalivka neighbourhood in Kharkiv.

Read about the last chapter of our book:

Chapter 3. 2013, Hjordis: Kharkiv came across as a fairly rough and unpolished place when I first visited. The particularly huge square in the very center, the huge buildings surrounding it, and the wide roads with lots of traffic gave an impression of toughness. But then, when I 👇

This Kharkiv cat is an architect.

This Kharkiv cat comes from luxury.

Хто в Харкові - приходьте на дуже незвичайно прогулянку-читання. Подробиці 👇

This Kharkiv cat makes wild paths.

This Kharkiv cat is going to school.

Запрошую на прогулянку і квартирник до відкриття нового сезону резиденції Тихий Центр в Харкові. Подробиці за реєстрацією 👇

This Kharkiv cat is in cultures. Will he let us in?

Kharkiv Central Park 👀👽.

Chapter 1, Vasylysa: Writing my own chapter felt for me as an intuitive process, at times as a detective one, as if I tried walking with a flashlight through the dark corners of the mind and heart. Therefore, the nature of this writing might be a bit chaotic, but, for me, its purpose is in 1/3

Piece of a traditional village architecture in the centre of Kharkiv - the glazed entrance to a house used to be called “galereia” or “kalydor”.

This Kharkiv cat is a fencer.

This Kharkiv cat is an energy powerhouse.

This Kharkiv cat is a princess.

This non-Kharkiv cat wishes all an easy path into weekend.

This Kharkiv cat is a car parking inspector.

This Kharkiv cat wishes all a cheerful Sunday.

Finally, our book is here! Share widely 🥳.

This Kharkiv cat is waiting for the weekend.

The skies of Kharkiv are dramatic today. Over the school for kids with eyesight disabilities.

This Kharkiv cat works in defense.

This Kharkiv squirrel is your food expert.

This Kharkiv cat wishes all a lucky Tuesday.

Statues of the miners by a Ukrainian brutalist sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze on Donvuhillia (Donetsk Coal) house in Kharkiv.

This Kharkiv cat is a Monday restoration expert.

The connection via a destroyed Losova station has been renewed in two days. Ukraine should be helped even just for how much this country wants to live. Photo by Nataliia Mykhaylychenko.

This Kharkiv cat is surprised by the audacity of you all.

These Kharkiv ducks are park designers.

Kharkiv architecture goes far beyond constructivism and totalitarian styles. There’s a lot of hidden Art Deco and Art Nouveau.

How to phrase it as if the Soviet Union wasn’t at all a colonial state 🥴😁(Tamara Dragadze, 1978):

Diversity of anthropology in Soviet Union as always impresses 😁. It’s hard not to see Moscow/Leningrad as an imperial cluster that studies the savage “others” on the occupied lands. Here’s a list of delegation that met US colleagues in a 1945 Moscow convention.

Train stations hold so many memories, meetings with loved ones and partings with places of the heart. Tonight russian military destroyed a beautiful station in Losova, where trains would take you to the sea, to the steppes…

These Kharkiv cats are your Monday consultants. Ask away.

Sometimes you need to spend the weekend learning how to stop a massive bleed. 🩸 in hope to never need it.

This Kharkiv kitler is preparing for a weekend party.

A great article about a new Kharkiv wartime coffee roastery, opened this month: medium.com/@nadiianosko...

This Kharkiv cat is a renowned bartender.

Kharkiv summer.

Honoured to have a wonderful architect Bohdan Volynskyi to write a preface for Kharkiv is a Dream:

Kharkiv Central Library today. This used to be the grand ballroom and then the main reading room. Walking up the elegant winding stairs I see instead of the usual room this. The librarian says “terribly sorry” and leads to the catalogue room downstairs. In 2020 I worked in 👇

This Kharkiv cat is a street detective.

Boiling corn, a typical relaxing food from childhood, only having to hide from a possible russian bomb in a hallway just when you need to switch off the gas, is not from childhood.

This Chernihiv cat is wishing all a cheerful and energetic week.