Tag: Ukraine

300-Year-Old Thatched Roof Houses in Vinnytsia Region

February 26, 2015

Volodymyr Koziuk started documenting thatched-roof houses 30 years ago. First he started painting them, then taking photos of them. “When I was searching for these houses, everyone laughed at me: ‘What a fool, spending time on old houses,’” says artist and philanthropist Volodymyr Koziuk. Volodymyr doesn’t regret all the time […]

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April 9, 2014

Kozak Village in the Luhansk Region

I read an interesting article in Ukrainian, in which the author uncovers the original purposes of the layout of an old Kozak village and the design of the houses. Below is my translation of most of it. The link to the original article and a few more photos can be […]