Drohobych

The oldest wooden temple in Ukraine, built in 1657 - St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

                      St. Yuriy icon in St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

                 Wonderful iconostasis of St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

                    The interior of St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Former NKVS prison in 1941 and memorable table about that period on the building, nowadays it's one of the scientific-researching institutes of Drohobych Pedagogical University.

                   Basilian monastery's complex of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Monument to famous scientist Yuriy Drohobych (Kotermak), which some time was a rector in Bologne university on the beginning of the XVth century.

   Monument to Ukrainian famous writer Ivan Franko, who lived11 years in Drohobych.

          Memorable table to Ivan Franko on the facade of the gimnasium, where he studied.

Monument to Vyacheslav Chornovil, famous Ukrainian politician and Ukraine's patriot in 1960-1990 years.

Monument to eminent Ukrainian writer and public figure Markiyan Shashkevych.

Monument to the fighters for Ukraine's freedom.

Monument to all victims of Holodomor (huge famine, created by Soviet state power) in 1932-1933.

A belfry of St. Bartolomeo Catholic Cathedral of Drohobych, built in the XIVth century.

                                                   Entry to St. Bartolomeo Catholic Cathedral

Monument to Pope John Paul II near St. Bartolomeo Catholic Cathedral.

Memorable table to Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Vasyl Shevchuk, killed in 1943 in Ryashiv (nowaday Polish city Rzeszow).

Big poster to Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian politician and the chief of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Drohobych Pedagogical University.

St. Trinity Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Architectural examples of the XIXth century.

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (wooden temple)

Antique painting on the facade of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Drohobych Painting Gallery

Drohobych Art Palace

The interior of the Museum of Bruno Schulz, famous painter, who was born in Drohobych and was killed here by the Nazi in 1942.

                                 Salterns plant's buildings, constructed in the XVIIth century.

                                       Monument to dead soldiers in the War of 1941-1945.

Drohobych People's House

Drohobych City Council's tower and Ukrainian flag on the top.

Drohobych in Lviv region. I like to go there when I want to "escape" and to think well about life, systematizing my thoughts. Don't know why, but exactly this city gives me a kind force of the positive mood in the future. And it's also strange for my character - to travel into the same place several times, because I usually go in the different cities and don't enjoy come back again and again to one place, besides my native Lviv, of course. But Drohobych is special. :)

Wake up, Ukraine! :)

I think these words every day in the morning, dreaming about the better future in my state. And some better changes have already happened - the Ukrainian society woke up from its sleeping. Good signals of this awaking are the public protests of different public organizations against the new project of "Law about peace actions and meetings", organized last week in Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk, Cherkasy, Kharkiv (p. s. this project of law decreases much the possibilities of the meeting's organization). And nowadays the Ukrainian citizens very actively discuss and protest against the new Tax Codex, which maybe will be accept with the Parliament. This tax codex will almost completely destroy the businesses in Ukraine because of its high taxes or because of its "free" tax controls and then an unemployment will grow more and more... So it's not time "to sleep".

The song of "Mandry" - "Don't sleep, my native land, wake up, my Ukraine".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkzxVS9VyE

Oleksandr Zinchenko.

The great politician, chief and creator one of the first ukrainian TV-channel in the 1990-th years, journalist and just the great ukrainian was buried today in Kyiv, on the Baykove cemetery. He died in the age of 53 on 9 June, 2010 at the hospital, because was ill with a blood cancer last 10 years. But he was always the fighter in everything, even in his illness, because the doctors said him about one year of the life with such diagnose, but he lived whole ten years, fighting with the cancer! The real fighter and the main ideologist of the Orange revolution in Ukraine in 2004. The man of the principles, who wasn't afraid of saying the truth and the objective information in the politics. The man with nice smile, big optimism and many ideas in the different branches.
I cried from this information of Zinchenko's death.
It's a really pity, when die someone, who does anything good for another people, not only for him, or when die someone, who has the real human values, but not money as the principal value. And mr. Oleksandr was such one, but... has already gone in the better world.

Lviv's medieval festival on May 29th, 2010 in Shevchenkivskyy Hay (photos).

It's hard to say, but it has already begun. The information dictatorship on the Ukrainian TV has begun three weeks ago. There were completely disappeared all foreign films and good programmes except the Russians. For example, were disappeared such modern and popular films as "Dr. House", "Grey's Anatomy", "Desperate Housewives", "Sex and the City", "Law&Order" from TV. And the worst thing is the prevailing Russian ether, formed almost the 80% at all information etherial time on the Ukrainian channels. Nowadays it's even hard to listen the Ukrainian songs on the TV...
"Brother, "merry" times have become" by the group "The Ocean of Elza".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_o4usjlFY&feature=related

"She" by the group "The Cry of Yeremiya".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAEZzcBJovk&feature=related

Lviv is 754 years old.

The 754-th anniversary of Lviv was celebrated last three days from 8-th to 10-th of May, so it has just finished and I can tell You and show in the photo how it was. :)

A few historical sentences about Lviv. Many years ago the halytsko-volynskyy principe and the first ukrainian king Danylo Halytskyy decided to found several fortresses-castles. So in 1256 year he founded Lviv and named it in the honour of his son Lev.

The festival of the alive sculptures.

A boy is teaching to make his small jug from clay the first in his life! Very interesting job for him and the ancient tradition in Ukraine - to make an earthen pottery.

A girl is teaching to shoot with a bow.











Children enjoy to create antique Ukrainian toy "motanka" themselves (left photo below). The base of "motanka" is a straw, so this toy is considered the ecological toy for babies, and also traditional for our culture.

On the left side You can see the master heating in the fire some liquid, which in the future will be a beautiful thing such as glassy works of art on the right side.

The exhibition of "horbati zaporozhtsi" - the cars with its own more than 50-th history, made in Zaporizhzhya's factory in the middle of the XX-th century. And nowadays they are the antiquarians. :)

The priests of the different religions of Lviv pray the common prayer about the better future of Lviv and its citizens on Rynok square.

Lviv's knights on the opening of Lviv Day celebration near the building of the municipal government (Town Hall) on Rynok square.

Nice music video of the song "Lviv-the city of Lev" is here as the end of this small photographic story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VKSPeoF98Y&feature=PlayList&p=CEE7C087D19CE764&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=66

It's rainning now in Lviv.
A little bit music, some mixed thoughts about life and strange mood - such "I" am now...
The next video is one of my favourite. You can see my city Lviv there, for example, the Dominican church, Latin cathedral, theatre of the opera and ballet, the monument to Taras Shevchenko, Rynok square - the famous sightseeings of Lviv. And this music video also is philosophic and the song is sad, but nice. Have a good listening!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WObWGpe1ff8