“...a Brick is already Building a Temple”: Survival Experience of Residents of Lukashivka Village during the Russian Occupation (record and publication by K. Lytvyn)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2024.06.066Keywords:
Russia’s war against Ukraine, oral history, Russian occupation, war everyday life, survival strategies, episodic memory, autobiographical memory, Chernihivshchyna (Chernihiv region), Lukashivka villageAbstract
The purpose is to supplement the source base of spoken historical evidence about the inhabitants’s conditions of survival in Lukashivka village (Chernihiv region) during the Russian occupation. The presented interview is the recollections of the head of the agricultural enterprise “Naporivske” (Lukashivka village), who was in the village until the morning of March 9, 2022, when enemy troops entered the territory of Lukashivka, and after evacuation, tried to do everything possible to help the local population survive.
The main research method is interviewing based on a questionnaire developed and tested during 2022—2023 at the time of recording spoken history testimonies in the Chernihiv region.
The scientific novelty consists in the introduction into scientific circulation of spoken historical evidence about the everyday life of the civilian population of the Chernihiv region in the first months of the Russian full-scale invasion, in particular about the features of self-organization and population’s mutual assistance at all levels, the ability to hold up well and not lose faith.
Conclusions. The published materials are an important component of the source base of the modern history of Ukraine.
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