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The reserve took part in the B2B Online Workshop Ukraine-Poland
17.03.2021
On March 16, 2021, the Bykivnia Graves National Historical and Memorial Reserve took part in an event dedicated to the presentation of Ukraine's tourist opportunities for guests from Poland. The organizers were the Polish Tourist Chamber and the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine. The event gathered about 80 participants interested in traveling to the central regions of Ukraine.
Scientific collection "Places / place of memory in the Polish-Ukrainian dialogue of understanding"
11.03.2021
At the end of 2020, with the financial assistance of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine, a collection "Places / place of memory in the Polish-Ukrainian dialogue of mutual understanding (to the 80th anniversary of the Katyn crime)" was published. The researchers of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve are among the authors of the collection.
The reserve was visited by a film crew of a Ukrainian-German educational project
13.11.2020
On November 12, 2020, representatives of the public organization "German-Ukrainian Forum" ("Deutsch-UkrainischesForume.V.") visited the territory of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Bykivnia Graves". The guests from Germany got acquainted with the history of Bykivnia burials, took photos and videos for the Ukrainian-German educational project.
Today Ukraine celebrates the 83rd anniversary of the beginning of the Great Terror
05.08.2020
On August 5, 1937, the USSR started the implementation of the secret operational order of the NKVD No. 00447 "On the repression of former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements", approved by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on July 31, 1937. In fact, on this day, one of the most large-scale and bloody repressive campaigns of the Soviet government started. The number of its victims is estimated at hundreds of thousands of people. In Kiev and the region, according to historians, the notorious order subjected to implementation even earlier - as early as August 3, 1937.
Remembrance Day for Victims of Political Repression 2020
18.05.2020
As always, on the third Sunday of May, Ukraine paid tribute to the victims of political repression. However, this year events in Bykivna took place in the face of new challenges. And yet, given the restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of acute respiratory disease COVID-19, Graves of Bykivnya again became the main venue for mourning celebrations.
Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves (Part 4)
16.05.2020
The Soviet totalitarian regime, seeking to subdue and control, destroyed tens or even hundreds of thousands of its own civilians, regardless of age, gender, status, or profession. Very often whole families were subjected to total repression. In many cases, the fates of the wives or children of those repressed in Kyiv during 1937-1941 remain unclear. And those who survived passed on their pain and longing, as well as the memory of the Great Terror to their descendants, who now can be scattered around the world. In order to unite the families of the repressed, as well as to widespread information about Bykivnia burials outside Ukraine, in 2020 the Reserve launches for the first time an English-language version of our electronic project "Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves". We hope that it will be useful to our foreign readers and partners, as well as to all who are interested in the history of Ukraine.
"Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves" (Part 3)
15.05.2020
The Soviet totalitarian regime, seeking to subdue and control, destroyed tens or even hundreds of thousands of its own civilians, regardless of age, gender, status, or profession. Very often whole families were subjected to total repression. In many cases, the fates of the wives or children of those repressed in Kyiv during 1937-1941 remain unclear. And those who survived passed on their pain and longing, as well as the memory of the Great Terror to their descendants, who now can be scattered around the world. In order to unite the families of the repressed, as well as to widespread information about Bykivnia burials outside Ukraine, in 2020 the Reserve launches for the first time an English-language version of our electronic project "Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves". We hope that it will be useful to our foreign readers and partners, as well as to all who are interested in the history of Ukraine.
Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves (Part 2)
14.05.2020
The Soviet totalitarian regime, seeking to subdue and control, destroyed tens or even hundreds of thousands of its own civilians, regardless of age, gender, status, or profession. Very often whole families were subjected to total repression. In many cases, the fates of the wives or children of those repressed in Kyiv during 1937-1941 remain unclear. And those who survived passed on their pain and longing, as well as the memory of the Great Terror to their descendants, who now can be scattered around the world. In order to unite the families of the repressed, as well as to widespread information about Bykivnia burials outside Ukraine, in 2020 the Reserve launches for the first time an English-language version of our electronic project "Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves". We hope that it will be useful to our foreign readers and partners, as well as to all who are interested in the history of Ukraine.
Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves (Part 1)
12.05.2020
The Soviet totalitarian regime, seeking to subdue and control, destroyed tens or even hundreds of thousands of its own civilians, regardless of age, gender, status, or profession. Very often whole families were subjected to total repression. In many cases, the fates of the wives or children of those repressed in Kyiv during 1937-1941 remain unclear. And those who survived passed on their pain and longing, as well as the memory of the Great Terror to their descendants, who now can be scattered around the world. In order to unite the families of the repressed, as well as to widespread information about Bykivnia burials outside Ukraine, in 2020 the Reserve launches for the first time an English-language version of our electronic project "Bykivnia Tragedy: Names from Nameless Graves". We hope that it will be useful to our foreign readers and partners, as well as to all who are interested in the history of Ukraine.
Representatives of the Embassies of France and Poland honored the memory of those buried in Bykivnya
23.12.2019
The Graves of Bykivnya Reserve was visited by the delegations of the French Embassy in Ukraine headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Ukraine Etienne de Ponsen and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine headed by Deputy Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Michal Guergon.