A Letter From Kharkiv
Ukraine’s second city, once capital of Soviet Ukraine and a centre of socialist experiment in the 1920s, has been shelled for months. How will it survive the scale of destruction?
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Ievgeniia Gubkina is the co-founder of the Urban Forms Center in Kharkiv, and the author of the Slavutych Architectural Guide (Dom Publishers).
Ukraine’s second city, once capital of Soviet Ukraine and a centre of socialist experiment in the 1920s, has been shelled for months. How will it survive the scale of destruction?
The authors of a new book on Soviet Modernism talk to Tribune about decommunisation, demodernisation and the fight to save the remnants of late Soviet architecture in Ukraine.