Osnovy Publishing

Comprehensive set of visual and ideological characteristics made in tradition of modern documentary photography.

Explore how distinctiveness is getting along with gentrification in photographic series of Sasha Maslov—Ukrainian Railroad Ladies.

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If you feel an irresistible thirst for a journey, there is a quick and reliable way to fulfil this fair demand. National dishes, historical facts, symbols, mythology, pop culture and much more are in our Awesome Ukraine series.

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Nature and ideas behind Soviet Modernism within the lense of accelerated globalization, diverse local influences and political transformation.

Evgenia Gubkina and Alex Bykov explored a definition of the Eastern Block’s Modernism and centered it in the comprehensive study of post-war architecture—Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-Modernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955-1991.

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Balcony Chic is a photo book, which explores the architectural phenomenon of balconies.

The edition was designed by architect and artist Oleksandr Burlaka, who studied the history of the transformation of balconies.

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Всі ми хочемо, аби 2020 рік пошвидше закінчився.

Катаріна Собрал написала книжку «Мій дідусь», у якій час також швидкоплинний, але його, навпаки, хочеться сповільнити та насолоджуватись якомога довше.

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Ukrainian nonconformist art, which broke with its tradition, had its beginnings in the Khrushchev 'thaw' of the mid-1950s.

Artists began exploring hitherto forbidden styles and trends in Western art and Eastern philosophy, as well as Ukrainian art of the 1920s, and developing their individual visions and means of expression.

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Picture: Alla Horska, Self-Portrait, 1960

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is a documentary series by Sasha Maslov on racing between accelerated globalization and people’s distinctiveness.

Photographic set that unexpectedly turned into a piece of sociological research along with purely aesthetic one.

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What a fascinating year for our Ukrainian Young Book Design Awards!

The 2020 competition gathered almost 400 participants from 13 countries, including Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Austria, Portugal, Germany, Italy etc.

Thanks to support of the Український культурний фонд the artworks of our top 20 talents were composed into a unique online exhibition and the print catalog. The catalog showcases the shortlisted works from the best illustrators and designers.

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Усім маленьким чемним дітям Святий Миколай приносить під подушку розвивальні книги-картонки від Ерве Тюлле. Ці книги познайомлять дитину зрізними формами, навчать розрізняти кольори і при цьому стануть справжньою розвагою.

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Готуйтеся до Дня Святого Миколая разом із нашою «Абеткою». Це перша українська абетка, ілюстрована шедеврами живопису, графіки, скульптури та декоративного мистецтва.
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“Of course, our balcony was hand-made by my father. Back then, people also used to dig root cellars in slopes where they saved groceries for winter—apples, cucumbers, potatoes, etc.

I remember there was a big closet on our balcony. It was mostly impossible to open it because stuff always got in the way.”

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Socio-political aspects were put in the context by Alex Bykov, Oleksandr Burlaka, and Sasha Kurmaz in the second edition of the visual studies series on architecture and urban space.

Authors were processing the crisis of architecture as a professional discipline, manipulative interference with land resources, and personal experience.

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Soviet modernism is an opportunity to create an architecture that combines past and future.

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Picture: Museum of Local History, Cherkasy by Alex Bykov

A look at Ukraine's (un)orthodox architecture | ICON Magazine

Fantastic review of Orthodox Chic by Icon

iconeye.com A new photography book showcases the strange and surprising religious architecture of post-Soviet Ukraine

Відкрили передзамовлення на книжку «Сьома сила»!

Це видання про мандрівку довжиною понад 24 тисячі кілометрів, яку здійснив Кевін Генкок — президент Hancock Lumber Company. Подорож автора розпочалась з його рідного міста Каско, штат Мен, до віддаленої спеціалізованої школи для індіанців на краю плато Колорадо, а тоді врешті — аж до Києва.

На своєму шляху автор зустрівся з безліччю людей, зустрічі з якими породили низку інсайтів — як сучасні лідер(к)и можуть елегантно зламати вкорінену на всій планеті ієрархічну модель управління, а натомість утвердити нове зведення правил, що передбачатиме спільне лідерство, розосереджену владу й повагу до всіх голосів.

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Most aspects of the 20th century remain undocumented, unknown, or riddled with distortions. Armies of ideologues have had vested interests in hiding the truth, while freethinking intellectuals who could have provided accurate accounts of their time had neither the resources nor reasons to speak out. But the truth has always been in the work of artists of the 60s.

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Picture: By the Window by Stanislav Sychev, 1967

Inevitable results of prohibited affection and social pressure in poem Kateryna by Taras Shevchenko.

Taras Shevchenko raises important socio-political and gender questions, which makes this critically acclaimed work not only a breakthrough but also topical at all times.

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Balconies are no longer just part of the house or apartment. This is an independent space where you can express yourself and combine your own imagination with the past.

All examples of how people express themselves through balconies collected by Oleksandr Burlaka in Balcony Chic.

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Якщо ви впевнені в своїх творчих ідеях — вас точно помітить увесь світ. А для цього потрібно навчитись бачити потенціал у власних поглядах.

Книга «Творча впевненість» допоможе знайти сміливість плисти проти течії та втілювати неймовірні ідеї в життя.

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Chicken Kyiv is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cooking. Find more fantastic dishes to make at home in Awesome Kyiv.

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Now in the situation of the pandemic, our habitual travel patterns change into walking to the subway and back. With our Awesome series you can get anywhere in Ukraine without leaving home.

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Ukrainian Railroad Ladies by Sasha Maslov focused on the architecture and interiors of the buildings as well as the anthropological and social roles played by the crossings and the workers.

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Wealthy individuals are building their own gilded status-churches, often used as a backdrop for wedding photos, while poorer communities have been forced to make do with makeshift places of worship, including wagons, shacks, kiosks, village council buildings, or old garages, which often have a cross or a cupola fixed upon them.

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The Ukrainian balcony is often not a gesture towards the outside, but a conscious extension of the interior.

Now the architecture of personal expression based on balconies: beautiful, ugly, plastic, wooden, old-fashioned, modern.

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В «Абетці» літери українського алфавіту проілюстровані шедеврами світового живопису. З цим виданням дітям цікаво дізнаватися нове та розвивати свій естетичний смак.

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Orthodox Chic is a photography book of religious architecture in Ukraine made by Alex Bykov, Oleksandr Burlaka, and Sasha Kurmaz.

The Church is understood here not just through a spiritual lens, but also from the perspective of its economic and political status in a country looking for national self-determination as many of its resources become the site of a new struggle.

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“O brown-eyed maidens, fall in love
But not with Muscovites.”

These are the first lines from Taras Shevchenko’s poem Kateryna. It’s a masterpiece of Ukrainian literature, and you can read it in English with stunning illustrations by Nikolay Tolmachev.

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Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-Modernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955-1991 offers a rethinking of postwar Soviet architecture, with Alex Bykov’s photographs and Ievgeniia Gubkina’s analysis on the multi-faceted modernist architectural movement.

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Picture: Sanatorium Druzhba, Crimea

«Європа.Історія» — це книжка видатного англійського історика, професора Університету Лондона і нашого сучасника Нормана Дейвіса.

Прочитати її — означає подивитись багатосерійний екшн серіал із глибоким історичним екскурсом та комедією водночас. На сторінках книжки можна знайти описи побуту столітньої давнини, місцеві анекдоти та переказ найважливіших подій.

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This is one of the railroad ladies who spend her long shifts in the little house built specifically for her along the tracks.

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies by Sasha Maslov is a series of portraits of women who work as traffic controllers and safety officers at railroad crossings in Ukraine.

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