People
Hryhorii Skovoroda
1722–1794 · Philosopher, teacher at Kharkiv Collegium
Hryhorii Skovoroda taught at the Kharkiv Collegium. For the city he is a figure of memory — pupils, biographers, and sayings that feel local.
Tales
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легендаXVIII век · Харьков
THE WORLD SOUGHT HIM
Catherine II, approaching Kharkiv from Crimea, noticed an elderly man in plain clothes, lost in thought on a hill. Asked who he was, she was told: the famous philosopher Grigory S…
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байкабез даты · Харьков
PIPE FOR A CLASSIC
A hollow in the woods. Along its bottom runs a short concrete ditch littered with brick fragments and broken bottles. From the wall juts a stub of rusty pipe trickling water. Is this an unfinished…
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байкаXVIII век · Центр
ONE MERCHANT BEAT TWO GOVERNORS
Merchant of the third guild Yegor Yegorovich Uryupin, elected mayor in 1799, was an awkward figure for the provincial authorities. The Duma he led declared it would act in its own…
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легендабез даты · Центр
MEEKNESS AND MIGHT
“During the election campaign I spoke in Kharkiv by the Pushkin monument. The square was packed, and people’s eyes held the expectation of something important that would happen in the country, together with us. Someone whispered to me…”
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топонимначало XX века · Центр
FIVE FROM THE PAWNSHOP
As is well known, in December 1917 a congress in Kharkiv proclaimed Ukraine a Republic of Soviets. Half a century later, to honor the event, the city’s central square was renamed Soviet Square (now Constitution Square…”
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