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We collaborate with pleasure with experts engaged in study of monuments and wooden architecture in particular.
This collaboration is reciprocally interesting. Thus, we get exclusive information (scientific publications,
drawings etc.) for the "Wooden churches of Ukraine". By publishing on the web the scientists
make their materials available for the search in the internet, and so, their audience is being strongly enlarged.
We are going to provide more information concerning the experts cooperating with
us and trends of their investigations. At the moment, we express our sincere gratitude for the collaboration
and their support of our project.
Ph. D. (chemical sciences), the author of the "Myslene Drevo" project, 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,
Ph.D. (architecture), professor of the National University "Lvivska Politekhnika" restoration department, 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.
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.
Engineer, architect, historian of architecture, urbanism and town-planning,
headmaster of The Society for the Research of Wooden Churches and Belltowers,
and the author of its website (kostelyazvonice.wz.cz), Prague, Czech Republic
Karel Kuča is engaged in the research of wooden sacral architecture, especially of belltowers in
the Czech Republic since 1983. He has published the catalogue and the evolutionary typological review of them.
He is coordinating the expeditions of the Society all over Europe, particularly, Scandinavia, Britain,
Ukraine and other countries. Mr. He is a founder of the Society
of revival of villages and small towns, and an author of numerous books on the history of architecture and town-planning.
During his travel to Zakarpattia in May 2006 Karel Kuča together with his colleague Tomaš Hlavaček
visited hundreds of monuments, from the well-known masterpieces and to the small wooden belltowers
of the stone churches. He kindly provided us the entire archive of his photos, and some of them
have already appeared on our website. In our part I was glad to provide photos and other material for the
encyclopedic book "Wooden Churches and Belltowers in Europe" and in such a way to promote
Ukrainian wooden churches to be presented in their wide diversity.
The perfectly designed two-volume edition was published in summer 2009.
We congratulate its authors Karel Kuča and Jiří Langer!
Preview of the contents and some pages of the edition is
here
The publishers` price of the two-volume edition is 2443 CZK.
Special thanks to Mr. Ing. Kuča for his great assistance in the processing of Schengen multivisa for me,
which helps me, in particular, to discover wooden monuments of Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Website of the Society for the Research of Wooden Churches and Bell-towers
Viktor Hromyk
architect by education, author of the
"Wooden Churches of Lviv region" website, 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 with a official statues of national importance.
In fact, not just visiting but making for every object:
- good photos 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,
- a scheme of approaches to the locality and church.
In 2007 Viktor Hromyk created his own website
"Wooden Churches of Lviv region".
We are in contact with him changing our information and consulting each other.
Mykhailo Syrokhman
Zakarpattya's wooden churches "guru", artist, teacher, author of a number of books,
the public action "Saving the churches of Zakarpattya" initiator, Uzhgorod
It seems that in Zakarpattia he is known by everybody who is related in any way to the architecture or
art critics. Whatever wooden churche you come to, whatever question you ask there
you still hear: "You know, there is a man by the name of Syrokhman in Uzhgorod, please contact him because
only he can tell you everything about our church!"
Mr. Syrokhman gave me many pieces of advice and materials. Some of them you can already see in our website.
Mr, Syrokhman is an author of numerous articles, several boooks
anf photoalbums, i.g.
"The Churches of Ukraine. Zakarpattia". Recently, he published a guide-book
"55 wooden churches of Zakarpattia" (Kyiv, 2008).
Olga Mer`je
Ph.D. (architecture), Assoc. Prof. of
of the National University "Lvivska Politekhnika", architect of Heritage Department
of the Institute "Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsija", Lviv
In 2009 Olga defended her dissertation work on the architecture of catholic wooden churches of the
Lviv region from late 17th to early 20th cc.
For our website she provided a lot of her materials including
photos, drawings, pictures, articles, descriptions of the catholic churches and chapels in Lviv region.
Some of them are already presented on our site.
From November 2007 to February 2008 on the order of Lviv regional state administration Olga Mer'je was making up the inventory
and certification of 13 wooden catholic churches of Lviv region. We hope that all of them will
be included to the Register of monuments of architecture of Ukraine.
Dmytro Kadnichanskyj
Ukrainian Regional Studies Union Lviv Regional Organisation
board deputy vice-chairman, photographer
In 2001-2002, Mr. Kadnichanskyj was taking part in the "Churches of Turkivschyna" expedition as an organizer and photographer. For our website, he gave us over 300 of his photos of wooden churches of Skole, Turka, Sambir and Staryj Sambir districts of Lviv region, as well as the detailed lists of monuments for these districts.
Dmytro Malakov
historian, local lore expert, researcher, Kyiv History Museum
I'd like to thank Mr. Malakov 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.
Also we express our gratitude to
- Bohdan Shumylovych, art critic, participant of the project of Yavoriv district (Lviv region) wooden churches cataloging, Lviv;
- Yulia Ivashko, author of a monograph dedicated to the wooden churches of Kyiv region, Kyiv;
- Mykola Yakymenko, local lore expert, Moshny, Cherkasy region.
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