People
Vasyl Karazin
1773–1842 · Enlightener, university founder
Vasyl Nazarovych Karazin — scholar and enlightener, key figure of Kharkiv’s cultural movement around 1800. His efforts brought the university into being.
Tales
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байкаXIX век · Центр
NOT INVITED TO THE CELEBRATION
"I seek to fill the modest vacant post of librarian. Do not refuse me! Grant me the joy of putting in order and revealing the treasures of this institution founded by me, yet…
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байкабез даты · Центр
IN MANY FACES
I marvel, creator, / At our tricky age: / Actor, poet, and committeeman / Are one and the same man. This epigram, attributed to V. Karazin, appeared in the 1830s and targets G. Kv…
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байкаXIX век · Центр
KHRUSHCHEV, ZHDANOV, AND OTHERS
When finishing Kharkiv University, student Khrushchev publicly defended a thesis arguing that revolution was needed to destroy the old order and build a new…
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байкаXIX век · Центр
FROM THE NOBILITY? REFUSE!
A girl came to the admissions committee of Kharkiv University (after the revolution it was called the Kharkiv Institute of Public Education)—among other applicants submitting documents. — Your surname?…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
PEOPLE AND BEASTS
October 1941. At night, under cover of darkness, several trucks with dimmed headlights entered the Kharkiv zoo. A group of soldiers got out. In a secluded spot, closer to the bot…
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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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