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Research team
William Noll
Ethnomusicologist, cultural historian, co-founder of the NGO "Oral Research Center". Researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University. In the 1990s, the American ethnomusicologist William Knoll lived in Kyiv and worked at Kyiv University. Shevchenko and Kyiv Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky. Having founded the NGO "Center for Oral History and Culture Research", he coordinated the collection of an archive of musical practices from rural instrumental performance in various regions, women's singing groups (ritual singing) to kobzars and lyreniks. He also conducted ethnomusicological research in Poland, Slovakia, and Moldova, as well as among Ukrainian American musicians in Philadelphia. The author of the monograph "Transformation of civil society. Oral history of the Ukrainian peasant culture of the 1920s-30s" and numerous studies on the traditional music of Eastern Europe.
Valentyna Borysenko
Ethnologist, doctor of historical sciences. Head of the department of archival scientific funds of manuscripts and phonorecords of the M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The author of numerous ethnographic works, in particular about wedding customs and ceremonies.
Lidia Lykhach
Co-founder of the NGO "Center for Oral Research of Oral History and Culture", founder and chief editor of RODOVID publishing house, founder and curator of RODOVID Gallery (Kyiv). Head of the "Cultural Heritage of Ukraine" project to create electronic catalogs of more than 80 museum and private collections.
Researcher and collector of peasant art. Co-author of the books: "Ikony Shevchenkov Krai Ukrainian Folk Icons from the Land of Shevchenko" (RODOVID, 1990); "Roman Petruk" (RODOVID, 2007); "Pure Art" (RODOVID, 2017)
Antonina Palahniuk
Journalist, interviewer, graduated from postgraduate studies at Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko, worked in regional youth newspapers and leading TV channels of Ukraine. In particular, she was the host of programs on ICTV. She participated in ethnographic expeditions, oral history projects for the study of professional art and changes in the cultural structure of the Ukrainian village in the 1920s-1930s, and recorded interviews in Vinnytsia and Kyiv. Editor of RODOVID publishing house and author of the book "Hanna Shabatura" (RODOVID, 2004)
Vladyslav Paskalenko
Graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic University. He is an engineer by education, but all his life he is fascinated by history, ethnography, researches song and music culture and is interested in the culture of the Ukrainian village
Serhii Kryvenko
Historian, archivist. Employee of the State Archives of the Cherkasy region. Co-founder and board member of the Cherkasy regional organization of the All-Ukrainian Union of Local Historians. Member of the editorial board of the volumes "Rehabilitated by History", "Book of Memory of Ukraine: Cherkasy Region" and a member of the Cherkasy City Toponymy Commission. Author of numerous articles and compiler of collections of documents on the history of Cherkasy region.
Larysa Novikova
She graduated from the Faculty of Musicology of the I.P. Kotlyarevsky. The sphere of scientific interests is the folklore tradition of Slobid region. Numerous expeditions to the districts of Kharkiv region became the source-based basis of further research: scientific articles, radio and television broadcasts, phono-collections and educational materials. Associate Professor of KhNUM University since 2002. Member of the National Union of Composers. In 1992-94, she joined the "Transformation of Civil Society" Project... This expedition provided an opportunity to acquire a conceptual core in the vision of the folklore of Slobid Ukraine: in the dynamic context of historical time. The materials of the project became the basis of scientific articles of specialized collections of Ukraine, were included in the information circle of prefaces to the author's educational materials, numerous reports at conferences and symposia on professional issues in the field of ethnomusicology.
Vira Zaichenko
Former researcher of the Chernihiv Historical Museum named after V.V. Tarnovskyi, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, Knight of the Order of Princess Olga of the III century, member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine
Author of monographs "Embroidery of the Cossack Elite of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"/ "Broderie de L'elite Cosaque Des XVII - XVIIIE Siécles" (RODOVID, 2001)
"Embroidery of Cossack Elders of the 17th - 18th Centuries" (RODOVID, 2015, small series), "Embroidery of Chernihiv Oblast" (RODOVID, 2010),
"Cossack sergeant's embroidery of the 17th - 18th centuries. techniques" (RODOVID, 2006),
"Embroidery of Chernihiv region. TOWELS" (Pedigree, 2018)
Author of more than 100 scientific publications on decorative arts
Mykola Kornienko
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Together with his wife Halyna Kornienko, they created the Tymoshiv Museum of Folk Art (late 1980s) in the Chekra region, for which they collected thousands of art objects: ceramics, textiles, icon painting, folk and naive painting, furniture, etc. In the 1990s, the collection of the Tymoshiv Museum of Folk Art moved to the regional center and became the ethnographic department of the Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local History. Researcher of Ukrainian peasant art, folklore, curator of folk art exhibitions. Co-author of the book "Ukrainian Folk Icons from the Land of Shevchenko" (RODOVID, 1990)
Halyna Kornienko
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Together with her husband, historian Mykola Kornienko, she deliberately went to work in one of the villages of the Cherkasy region to devote herself to the study of folk art and Ukrainian folklore. In the late 1980s, the Tymoshiv Museum of Folk Art was created, for which thousands of art objects were collected: ceramics, textiles, icon painting, folk and naive painting, furniture, etc. In the 1990s, the collection of the Tymoshiv Museum of Folk Art moved to Cherkasy and became the ethnographic department of the Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local History, with Galina Kornienko as its director. The author of the book "Traditional Clothing of Cherkasy of the late 19th - early 20th centuries" (RODOVID, 1993)
Platform team
Valentyna Klymenko
Communications Manager
Lidia Lykhach
Head of the platform
Anastasia Bilousova
Editor
Taras Dykovskyi
Digitization of Archives
Hisham Akl
Development
Maria Panchenko
Content Manager
Anna Kovalenko
Editor
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