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Experts support
Working on the project we have been trying to get in touch not only with our fellow travellers around Ukraine
but also with experts engaged in study of monuments, wooden architecture, etc.
We were really pleased when most persons whom we consulted got interested in the project and wanted to help.
Within a lapse of time, we are going to provide more information concerning the experts cooperating with
us and trends of their investigations. At the moment, however, we can just express our sincere gratitude for their
valuable advice and moral support.
Mykola Zharkikh
leading research officer of the "Sofia Kyivska"
National Reserve, Kyiv
A participant of our project who undertook a titanic work of digitizing literature and paper photoarchives. It's nice
when after bringing a huge heap of magazines and books to a person for scanning you see him not frightened but smiling.
After passing through his hands any materials are perfectly ordered and prepared to take their place both at our
website and in "Myslene Drevo" - a universal
hierarchic data base dedicated to history and culture of Ukraine.
Web bibliography of Ukraine's wooden architecture is also developed
by Mykola Zharkikh.
Oleh Rybchynskyj
town culture animator,
professor of the National University "Lvivska Politekhnika" restoration department, Ph.D. (architecture), Lviv
Mr. Oleh is an excellent graphic artist; you can get evidence that it is true visiting his galleries
"Lviv houses yards"
and "Lviv portals. Biography fragments"
at the "Lviv Reminiscences" website. It was creating these galleries what gave incentive to our acquaintance and
cooperation continued now in the "Wooden Churches of Ukraine" project.
More than 50 pictures of folk wooden architecture monuments have been scanned and will be presented at this website later
as well as two illustrated articles.
Apart from this, it is due to Mr. Oleh's efforts that Lviv architect Anatoliy Konsulov's drafts,
provided by his family, are presented at our website.
Viktor Hromyk
an architect by education and an explorer of wooden churches by vocation, Lviv-Rudno
From usual travels with a camera he came to a serious interest in wooden churches. In 2006, he set himself as an object
visiting all the 140 wooden churches of Lviv region that are monuments of national importance. In fact, not just
visiting but conducting a detailed research of every object:
- quality photography from several angles (belfry separately),
- draft of the south facade of the church,
- measurement of the external outline of the church on a scale of 1 to 200,
- making a scheme of approaches to the locality and church.
By July 2007, Viktor Hromyk visited (by means of public transport and his own feet only) and processed in the way
mentioned above 66 (!) monuments; besides, photography of 15 churches-monuments and 50 "non-monuments" was made.
Viktor Hromyk's photos will make up a considerable part of the "Lviv region" section; the whole complex of materials will be exposed in a separate gallery. Apart from that, it is to be mentioned that the valuable collection has not been published so far, so on Viktor's behalf I invite to communication prospective publishers as well as partners who could contribute to his further work.
Mykhaylo Syrokhman
Zakarpattya's wooden churches guru, art critic, artist, teacher, author of a number of books,
photoalbums and guide books, the public action "Saving the churches of Zakarpattya" initiator, Uzhhorod
Mr. Mykhaylo gave us a good deal of sage advice and, above all, he provided us with moral support. Let's hope that his materials will appear at our website soon.
"The Churches of Ukraine. Zakarpattya"
Dmytro Kadnichanskyj
Ukrainian Regional Studies Union Lviv Regional Organisation
board deputy chairman, photographer
In 2001-2002, Mr. Dmytro took part in the "Churches of Turkivschyna" expedition as an organizer and photographer. For publication at this website, he gave us over 300 his own photos of wooden churches of Skole, Turka, Sambir and Staryj Sambir districts as well as detailed lists of monuments for the districts mentioned above.
Dmytro Malakov
historian, local lore expert, deputy director of the Kyiv History Museum
I'd like to thank Mr. Dmytro for his unfailing willingness to help, advise and suggest. He provided rare books by M. Sopolyha, "The pearls of folk architecture", and T.Gewryk, "Masterpieces in Wood", and articles by D.Scherbakivskyj and O.Hutsalo from the Collection of the Ukrainian Scientific Society Art Section published in Kyiv in 1921. The works are digitized and will enrich our electronic library later.
Also we express our gratitude to
- Bohdan Shumylovych, art critic, participant of the project of Yavoriv district (Lviv region) wooden churches cataloging, Lviv;
- Levko Skop, restorer, professor of Lviv Academy of Arts sacral art department, Lviv;
- Yulia Ivashko, author of a monograph dedicated to the wooden churches of Kyiv region, Kyiv;
- Mykola Yakymenko, local lore expert, Moshny, Cherkasy region.