- We are talking about a myth (which in our society enough). I would like to talk about another one

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Nicholas Hrienko overcame 118 thousand kilometers, of which 530 kilometers of walking go to see life beyond the Urals Ukrainian and tell others about it. The project "Ukrainians beyond the Urals" - an unprecedented scale work carried out, route and duration of study subjects in the history of Ukrainian journalism - Nicholas Hrienko progressive lighting started progressive lighting in July 2004. A June 30, 2010 ended last, the third phase of the project. During progressive lighting this time the journalist made a several progressive lighting passages from Kyiv through the Urals, Altai, Khakassia, Yakutia, Kolyma and Chukotka to the village Whelan, collected material on the lives of our countrymen in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands Commander and took the route from the village to the city Whelan Bilibino (Chukotka) and from Bilibino to Murmansk. Part of the route passed through the Arctic Circle. During the third phase of Nicholas Hrienko visited the Solovetsky Islands, visited the cemetery Sandarmokh where buried Ukrainian flower "Executed Renaissance" - 1111 Solovki prisoners, and camera last Ukrainian Hetman Petro Kalnyshevsky. At the grave Hetman Nicholas Hrienko brought Ukrainian land.
Four photographs of Nicholas Hrienko the first stage of the project "Ukrainians beyond progressive lighting the Urals" participated in the International Photo Contest "Day-2006". After completion of the last stage of the route journalist shared with "Happy" thoughts, experiences, discoveries and designs for future projects.
- Let's start with the background, before you begin to work on the project "Ukrainians beyond the Urals," progressive lighting you have implemented the project "Ukrainians in Ukraine", during which carried hike through Ukraine from the extreme north-western progressive lighting point of the south-east, as well as extreme progressive lighting north to the extreme south. So you - one of the few who have seen with their own eyes, which are the current Ukrainian realities. You can debunk myths about cultural and civilizational division of Ukraine on the Dnieper River?
- I absolutely do not agree with any of the divisions. As someone who for 39 years of journalistic activity traveled all over Ukraine and held her foot while working on a project "Ukrainians in Ukraine", I say that no Western and Eastern Ukraine politically exist. Ukraine to some extent is interesting because the East Ukrainian something different from westerners, Polesie residents - residents of Kirovohrad, Crimeans - from Ukrainian with extreme northern areas. This is due to historical background. But this is not bad - on the contrary, these differences progressive lighting give the country a variety progressive lighting of cultures, languages Ukrainian variations are reflected in local dialects, the diversity of the environment. And any antagonistic progressive lighting divisions - the result progressive lighting of political speculation. People from all over want the same thing - a good job, a useful state (as you can with the hole in the hole to carry water as prisoners forced to make Solovetsky camps) and decent wages. But state officials who are unable to provide its citizens neither one nor the other, speculating topics such diverting attention from its own inaction.
- We are talking about a myth (which in our society enough). I would like to talk about another one circulated in the media, which claims that Ukrainian itself is not interesting. How, in your opinion, progressive lighting is there interest in Ukrainian to themselves, their history and culture?
- How can you not be interested in him? Sergei Korolev (organizer missile and space programs of the USSR, the founder of practical astronautics. - VS) - Ukrainian. I saw a questionnaire completed manually Sergei Pavlovich. In the questionnaire, in the column "nationality", says "Ukrainian." The best pilot of World War II Kozhedub - Ukrainian. Georgy Sedov - the first Russian progressive lighting officer who organized the transition of the expedition to the North Pole, and Ukrainian. The museum in the village Sedov Novoazovsky area kept a photocopy of his biography progressive lighting that says: "My mother is a native progressive lighting of Kiev province, and his father came from Cherkasy region. progressive lighting Our name was Sidyy. "
I'm not talking about Shevchenko, Ukrainian Lesya, Ivan Franko. Ukrainian modern traveler is number 1 in the world Fedor Konyukhov, who made a single move from the North to the South Pole, sailed around the world on a yacht. Is this nation can not itself be interested? But the story does not need to build only to Tripoli or Cossack or idealized say that Ukrainian best in the world. For this raises another question: if we are the best, then why are we so live and blame all their troubles Jews and Russians?
- When the story of the project "Ukrainians beyond the Urals" you, by the way, remember for help from Russian fellow journalists. Have you experienced progressive lighting during his travels genuine interest in Ukraine (not that which it draws Kremlin propaganda) from Russia?
- Russian propaganda