«The beginning...»: an exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity was opened in Mykolaiv

On November 22, the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the events of 2013-2014 was held in Mykolaiv's House of Fleet Officers.

The event was timed to the 10th anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, reports the correspondent of NikVesti.

At the photo exhibition, more than 150 works of both famous Mykolaiv photographers and unknown people who were participants in the events on the Kyiv and Mykolaiv Euromaidans were presented.

«The task is to show what started it all. In fact, what is happening now in Ukraine, the war with Russia, did not start two years ago, not on February 24, and not even during the conflict in Donbas. And this conflict itself was the result of November 21, 2013, when the first few dozen people came out in Kyiv, on November 22 they came out in Mykolaiv and other various cities. The exhibition shows Kyiv's Maidan because there was a separate Mykolaiv tent and there were many active Mykolaiv people. And there is a separate part of the Mykolaiv Euromaidan, all the way to Leninopad. That is, the events from November 21-22, 2013 to February 2014», said Volodymyr Alekseiev, one of the organizers of the exhibition, coordinator of the humanitarian headquarters of the DOF.

Such an exhibition was planned even before the start of a full-scale war, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year changed the plans. The author of the exhibition, the head of the exhibition work department of the Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet Olena Puchynian said that she could not pass by this date. And the work of NikVesti «Euromaidan. Mykolaiv. Chronicle» helped her to collect the necessary material..

«I have had this idea for several years. A full-scale war came and I could not fully implement my plans, but I could not simply pass this date. I decided to show and remind our city that Mykolaiv was not aloof in those years that Mykolaiv was supported by the Kyiv Maidan. I needed to start with something, so I rewatched the film-chronicle created by NikVesti and wrote out all the participants of our Mykolaiv Euromaidan. I started looking for them on social networks», she said.

As Oleksandr Saikovskyi, one of the authors of the photos presented at the photo exhibition, said, the exhibition was previously scheduled for February 24, 2022.

«In fact, this exhibition was supposed to take place 2 years ago in the Mykolaiv Regional Universal Scientific Library on February 24. But we all know what happened on February 24, so it was postponed until better times», he said.

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