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Tragedy of Bykivnya: Names from Nameless Graves (Part 4)
16.05.2019
On the secret special stage of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR in the Bykivnya Forest, tens of thousands of victims of the "Great Terror" found their last shelter. According to historians, the total number of those shot and buried in Bykivnya can amount from 20 to 100 thousand people. Among them there are priests and scientists, peasants and workers, artists and writers, actors and engineers, composers and civil servants. However, it is very important to see behind huge figures individual fates, personal stories and specific names. Graves of Bykivnya are fraternal, but not nameless. COME AND COMMEMORATE EVERYONE!
Tragedy of Bykivnya: Names from Nameless Graves (Part 3)
14.05.2019
On the secret special stage of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR in the Bykivnya Forest, tens of thousands of victims of the "Great Terror" found their last shelter. According to historians, the total number of those shot and buried in Bykivnya can amount from 20 to 100 thousand people. Among them there are priests and scientists, peasants and workers, artists and writers, actors and engineers, composers and civil servants. However, it is very important to see behind huge figures individual fates, personal stories and specific names. Graves of Bykivnya are fraternal, but not nameless. COME AND COMMEMORATE EVERYONE!
Tragedy of Bykivnya: Names from Nameless Graves (Part 2)
10.05.2019
On the secret special stage of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR in the Bykivnya Forest, tens of thousands of victims of the "Great Terror" found their last shelter. According to historians, the total number of those shot and buried in Bykivnya can amount from 20 to 100 thousand people. Among them there are priests and scientists, peasants and workers, artists and writers, actors and engineers, composers and civil servants. However, it is very important to see behind huge figures individual fates, personal stories and specific names. Graves of Bykivnya are fraternal, but not nameless. COME AND COMMEMORATE EVERYONE!
Tragedy of Bykivnya: Names from Nameless Graves (Part 1)
06.05.2019
On the secret special stage of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR in the Bykivnya Forest, tens of thousands of victims of the "Great Terror" found their last shelter. According to historians, the total number of those shot and buried in Bykivnya can amount from 20 to 100 thousand people. Among them there are priests and scientists, peasants and workers, artists and writers, actors and engineers, composers and civil servants. However, it is very important to see behind huge figures individual fates, personal stories and specific names. Graves of Bykivnya are fraternal, but not nameless. COME AND COMMEMORATE EVERYONE!
We are looking for materials related to the massive political repressions of the 1930s-1940s in Kiev and the region
27.03.2019
National historical and memorial reserve "Graves of Bykivnya" is looking for materials related to mass political repressions of the 1930s-1940s in Kiev and the region, to replenish collections.
Lectures of the Reserve in Slavyansk
20.02.2019
On February 19, 2019, Nikolai Brivko, a research associate at the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Graves of Bykivnya" gave a lecture “Bykivnya - the Territory of Memory” at the Donbass State Pedagogical University (Slavyansk) for students, professors and librarians of the University.
Meeting with the youngest audience
13.02.2019
On February 12, 2019, Tetyana Sheptytskaya, a deputy general director for the scientific work of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve Graves of Bykivnya, met with pupils of the 7th form of the secondary school № 70, at the library No. 9 for children of the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv.
Cooperation with relatives of the repressed
11.02.2019
The National Historical Memorial Preserve “Graves of Bykivnia” is sincerely grateful to the relatives of the repressed for their cooperation and attention to our institution.
The exhibition "The Word Broken in Bikivnya" was opened in Shepetivka
14.12.2018
On December 17, 2018, a photo-documentary exhibition "The Word Broken in Bykivnia" (extended version) was opened in the premises of the Regional Literary and Memorial Museum of M. Ostrovsky in Shepetivka/ The exhibition is prepared by the scientists of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Graves of Bykivnya" in cooperation with the Ukrainian independent publishing house "Smoloskyp".
TV channel ZIK broadcasted a program about Bykivna. It is available on Youtube
10.12.2018
The program “Historical truth with Vakhtang Kipiani: NKVD executioners. Bykivnya"came out on ZIK channel on December 8, 2018