The exhibition "Polish Architects and Kharkiv. Polyphony of Stone Melody" The exhibition, whose author is Professor Lyubov Zhvanko, presents the profiles and designs of Polish architects who built some 90 buildings in Kharkiv in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Most of them have been preserved to this day and are architectural monuments - which is why it is so important not to forget these unique projects. All the more so as they are threatened at the present time by the hostilities waged by Russia on Ukrainian territory.

Working on the exhibition was, in the words of Prof. Lyubov Zhvanko, "a kind of investigation, an attempt to find answers to numerous questions and to solve mysteries related to the biographies of these great masters of architecture - not very well known in Poland, but appreciated and recognised in distant Kharkiv".

Photos for the exhibition: Vyacheslav Gorbonosov, Denys Vitchenko, Lyubov Zhvanko
Exhibition graphic design: dobosz.studio
Editor: Iwona Hardej
Translation into Ukrainian: Iurii Tkachuk
Translation into English: Małgorzata Matysik

Materials from archives in Poland and Ukraine were used in the preparation of the exhibition:
Warsaw Archdiocesan Archive, Warsaw, Poland
Kharkiv Region State Archive, Kharkiv, Ukraine
National Library in Warsaw, Polona Digital Library, Warsaw, Poland
University of Warsaw Library, Manuscripts Cabinet, Warsaw, Poland
Jagiellonian Library, Manuscripts Section, Cracow, Poland
University Library of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Volodymyr Korolenko Kharkiv State Scientific Library, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Vasyl Karazin National University Scientific Library, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Odesa Museum of History and History, Odesa, Ukraine

Exhibition venues:

from 12.11.2024 - Krzemieniec-Pochayiv State Historical and Architectural Reserve - Krzemieniec
6.09-31.10.2024 - Institute of Art History, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University - Warsaw
9.04-2.06.2024 - Jan Olszewski Historical Museum of Skierniewice - Skierniewice, Poland Jana Olszewskiego - Skierniewice
10.10-10.11.2023 - University Library - Toruń
28.07-31.08.2023 - Main Market Square - Lubaczów