Dying villages of Ukraine

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Victoria Sorochinsky returned to her great-grandmother's homeland to film Ukrainian villages disappearing.

From the author: for centuries, traditions, myths, fairy tales and beliefs of all peoples have been kept and passed down from generation to generation by people living in villages and villages - “people of the earth”. In our time, the tradition of cultivating the land and eating its gifts is becoming a disappearing phenomenon. All over the world, the trend of migration to cities is more and more evident. This is especially noticeable in some countries - for example, in Ukraine.

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Dying villages of Ukraine
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1. I was born in Ukraine, my great-grandmother and my grandfather lived in one of the small villages near Kyiv.

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2. Memories of how I came to them for the summer with the whole family are filled with light and joy. When I returned to this village for the first time after many years of emigration, I was struck by its depressingly lifeless state.

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3. Almost all the young have gone to different cities, leaving mostly only old people living out their last days in poverty.

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4. Many of them no longer have enough strength to cultivate the land in their gardens.

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5. Abandoned and forgotten not only by the state, but often by their own families, they gradually disappear along with their crumbling homes, taking with them traditions and memories.

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6. Seeing all this, I realized that I must certainly capture and immortalize the last eyewitnesses of that life, which will soon be known only from history books.

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7. During 2009, I visited Ukraine several times and photographed people and their houses in various villages and villages surrounding the capital.

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8. Later, in 2010, I was able to go to China and photograph the villages along the Great Wall of China. As far as possible, I plan to continue this project in other countries of the world.

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Keywords: Village | Old people

     

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