Thank you so much for posting this video. I spent three months in Kharkov, Watching this brings a tear to my eye because I miss Kharkov and my friends there so much. Talking on Skype to my friends helps but I wish I were back there. This video reinforces why I love the Ukrainian people, I want to celebrate with them. It will be a little while but I will be back. I love you Kharkov, God Bless.
My house is on Pushkin Street In Kharkov I enjoy going to Mafia restaurant sushi and Italian restaurant right there in Pushkin and having a coffee afterwards relaxing there
Such beautiful and elegant traditional dancing and costumes! The National Anthem has a moving, spiritual quality to it. Спасибо большое! Greetings to you and your family!
This video is breaking my heart. It's wonderful to see Kharkiv so happy and celebratory. But it's not that way now and I suspect it won't be for awhile. I wonder what it will be like this coming August 24th. Thank you for showing better times. I've never been to Ukraine but since this stupid war was launched, I've felt such a connection. I hope to be there soon to help in whatever small way I can.
Great video and it is great to see that the people of Kharkiv are patriotic and love their country Ukraine. As Kharkiv is quite close to the Russian border and also because of some rumours I have read, I thought that there may be a few pro Russians in the city of Kharkiv. But this video I think demonstrates that the people of this city, love their country Ukraine.
+Alex Dixon I think they was kind of pro-russians before pro-russian separatists didn't occupied their local governmental building. After that they realized, that they don't want to have the same " Russian world" as in Donbass now, and after this events they change their attitude to Ukraine so much. People which have what to loose, don't want to play in separatism.
+Olga Reznikova hmm, that is interesting to hear. Also, may I ask why is it that a sizeable group of people in Kharkiv initially had the thought of being pro Russian? Because obviously the cities in West Ukraine as well as other big cities like Kiev, Dnepropertovsk and even Poltava have always been Pro Ukrainian(well the vast majority of people from these cities were Pro Ukrainian). Is it because Kharkiv have a large ethnic Russian population? I am just curious. I have read that ethnic Russians make up around 17% of Ukrainian citizens/nationals.
I don't know right answer on your questions, but just can write you some my thoughts. In fact, life in Russia is not better than in Ukraine. Something is better, something is worse.. So there is no reason to joing to this country. If some people really want to do this - they can easily move to Russia and happily live there. There is no problem nowdays to do this. But Kharkiv, as most of East Ukraine is big industrial region. And a lot of people works in plants since Soviet time. But in USSR all people had the same salary - no metter, are you aero engineer, doctor, teacher, work in bank and have high education or clean room after school. Only one category had salary 3 times higher - workers with basic education. Not because of they work so much. Mostly time they just come to work and sit all day doing nothing. They had big salary because of policy of USSR - everything for worker class. So they had everything in USSR. After Ukraine become independant and of course we started to live in capitalism - situation changed. And to recieve a lot of money you need to work a lot. As more you work - as more you recieve. But workers who accustomed recieved money just because they comes at work become live worse and worse. And of course, blame Ukraine and Ukrainian power in all their problems. As Russia consider themself as neoUSSR, of course this workers try to return all their life before capitalism and are ready to become any country, just have a lot of money and don't do anything for that. But now really in Kharkiv there are a lot of people who works hard all this 25 years of independance, make some money, maybe create their own business, and they don't want to loose it because of some stupid separatism game. And I think, most people in Kharkiv belongs to second category, that's why their joining to Russia ends earlier, then started. But it's only my thoughts.
+Olga Reznikova Ok, I am getting a better picture on the reasons why certain Ukrainians feel the way they do and why others think differently. It seems the shift to independence and capitalism in the early 90's had a huge impact on people's life styles, so it might have been a shock to the system for some people.
I liked the band at the end of the video. I noticed those type of bands in videos of your city also. Sounds like a mix of Polka and New Orleans Jazz. Are these school bands? Is this music popular with younger people in Ukraine? Our school bands in the US are still mainly marching bands or small jazz bands.
Very happy Independence Day, my best wishes to all Ukraine¡¡¡ Unfortunately I'm very short of time this week, I will watch and coment your recent videos other day ;) Greets Ollia¡
+Olga Reznikova I knew that the Jews can be found all over Ukraine, but are there really 3 million muslims in Ukraine? Are these 3 million muslims Ukrainian? Tatars? Or immigrants who live in Ukraine? I also read that Ukrainian(Tatars) muslims live in the South of the country, mainly in Crimea. Are there Ukrainian muslims in the North, West and central regions?
Jews or judaist? Because you compare religion with nation. Not all jews are judaists. I don't know how many muslims we have in Ukraine really, but official statistic says that it's 3 million. Of course it's not only Crimean tatars. There are only 260 thousand of Crimea Tatars in Ukraine, and most of them live in Crimea. Other muslims are caucasians, afgans, arabian people, pakistans, uzbeks and of course ukrainians and russians. And they are not just immigrants, because in Soviet time all nations moved to different part of Soviet Union and after Ukraine become independant a lot of people just stay live here. Also I think, when ukrainian girl married with muslim husband she become (oftenly) muslim, and then their children become muslims and so on... We have a lot of mosques in all Ukraine: Odessa, Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lviv... I know that in my city Khmelnytsky muslims 5 years demand from government allow them to build mosque.. So probably we have big muslim community too... Oh, by the way, mosque in Kyiv is one of the biggest in Europe
+Olga Reznikova As far as I understand it, Jews are the people who follow the Jewish faith. There are many people(Jews) who follow Judaism all over Ukraine. As far as the muslims are concerned, I am sure that figure(official statistic) of 3 million that you quoted includes the immigrants living in Ukraine. The Caucasions(Azerbaijanis, Chechens etc.) may have been in Ukraine for a long time because of the movement of people during the Soviet times, but they are not Ukrainian in terms of being indigenous Ukrainian like yourself. The Arabs, Turks, Africans and Pakistanis are all relatively recent immigrants and they are obviously not Ukrainian. I would classify the Tatars as Ukrainian as they have been in Ukraine for hundreds of years. But how many ethnic Ukrainians like yourself are there in Ukraine? Are there ethnic Ukrainian communities in Ukraine that are muslim? If there are, what is their estimated population in Ukraine?
Yes, I told you, that there are real Ukrainian who are muslims. WHo they are - I don't know, but I think there can be a lot of Ukrainian woman who marry muslim husband and then changed their religion. And then their children are Ukrainians or at least half-ukrainians. but they also become muslims. That's my thoughts, but I don't know
Oh, I even don't know average opinion. Kravchuk was normal, Kuchma in second term had a lot of protests of business and some other stuff, but anyway. there weren't so much negative. Then was Yushchenko - the biggest dissapoitning for people, then Yanukovich, and you know how it finished...
Because when there was Orange revolution and people support him, mostly time they was against Yanukovich, and vote for Yushchenko just not voting for Yanukovich. But after one years Yushchenko makes Yanukovish prime minister of Ukraine. Also people choose Yushchenko because he promise us europen future, but he also didn't anything for that. Just helps Yanukovich recieve a power. Then Yanukovivh change constitution and all power was in Prime Minister hands, so Yushchenko was just like representative person,not more.
most people in kharkiv is pro ukraine? because i heard that there were a lot of pro russians protests there and even that they wanted to form a "kharkiv people's republic"
+Ubermorph Most people are proukrainian, that's why Kharkiv have peace now. There wasn't a lot protests, and also there was just few people who call for ceparatism. But as we see, people live in Ukraine and they are happy)
Thank you so much for posting this video. I spent three months in Kharkov, Watching this brings a tear to my eye because I miss Kharkov and my friends there so much. Talking on Skype to my friends helps but I wish I were back there. This video reinforces why I love the Ukrainian people, I want to celebrate with them. It will be a little while but I will be back. I love you Kharkov, God Bless.
+Roy Hollingsworth It's pleasure to hear that!
My house is on Pushkin Street In Kharkov I enjoy going to Mafia restaurant sushi and Italian restaurant right there in Pushkin and having a coffee afterwards relaxing there
Olga Reznikova I love Pushkin Street my home is there the other home is in Athens Greece
Such beautiful and elegant traditional dancing and costumes! The National Anthem has a moving, spiritual quality to it. Спасибо большое! Greetings to you and your family!
This video is breaking my heart. It's wonderful to see Kharkiv so happy and celebratory. But it's not that way now and I suspect it won't be for awhile. I wonder what it will be like this coming August 24th. Thank you for showing better times. I've never been to Ukraine but since this stupid war was launched, I've felt such a connection. I hope to be there soon to help in whatever small way I can.
Great video and it is great to see that the people of Kharkiv are patriotic and love their country Ukraine. As Kharkiv is quite close to the Russian border and also because of some rumours I have read, I thought that there may be a few pro Russians in the city of Kharkiv. But this video I think demonstrates that the people of this city, love their country Ukraine.
+Alex Dixon I think they was kind of pro-russians before pro-russian separatists didn't occupied their local governmental building. After that they realized, that they don't want to have the same " Russian world" as in Donbass now, and after this events they change their attitude to Ukraine so much. People which have what to loose, don't want to play in separatism.
+Olga Reznikova hmm, that is interesting to hear. Also, may I ask why is it that a sizeable group of people in Kharkiv initially had the thought of being pro Russian? Because obviously the cities in West Ukraine as well as other big cities like Kiev, Dnepropertovsk and even Poltava have always been Pro Ukrainian(well the vast majority of people from these cities were Pro Ukrainian). Is it because Kharkiv have a large ethnic Russian population? I am just curious. I have read that ethnic Russians make up around 17% of Ukrainian citizens/nationals.
I don't know right answer on your questions, but just can write you some my thoughts.
In fact, life in Russia is not better than in Ukraine. Something is better, something is worse.. So there is no reason to joing to this country. If some people really want to do this - they can easily move to Russia and happily live there. There is no problem nowdays to do this.
But Kharkiv, as most of East Ukraine is big industrial region. And a lot of people works in plants since Soviet time.
But in USSR all people had the same salary - no metter, are you aero engineer, doctor, teacher, work in bank and have high education or clean room after school. Only one category had salary 3 times higher - workers with basic education. Not because of they work so much. Mostly time they just come to work and sit all day doing nothing. They had big salary because of policy of USSR - everything for worker class. So they had everything in USSR.
After Ukraine become independant and of course we started to live in capitalism - situation changed. And to recieve a lot of money you need to work a lot. As more you work - as more you recieve. But workers who accustomed recieved money just because they comes at work become live worse and worse. And of course, blame Ukraine and Ukrainian power in all their problems.
As Russia consider themself as neoUSSR, of course this workers try to return all their life before capitalism and are ready to become any country, just have a lot of money and don't do anything for that.
But now really in Kharkiv there are a lot of people who works hard all this 25 years of independance, make some money, maybe create their own business, and they don't want to loose it because of some stupid separatism game. And I think, most people in Kharkiv belongs to second category, that's why their joining to Russia ends earlier, then started.
But it's only my thoughts.
+Olga Reznikova Ok, I am getting a better picture on the reasons why certain Ukrainians feel the way they do and why others think differently. It seems the shift to independence and capitalism in the early 90's had a huge impact on people's life styles, so it might have been a shock to the system for some people.
I liked the band at the end of the video. I noticed those type of bands in videos of your city also. Sounds like a mix of Polka and New Orleans Jazz. Are these school bands? Is this music popular with younger people in Ukraine? Our school bands in the US are still mainly marching bands or small jazz bands.
+Wizz Bang I think it's not school, it's just bands beyond school)) This is not pop music, it's national ethnic music.
What is the statue/monument at 3:34?
At 5:46 is it a poem?
Very happy Independence Day, my best wishes to all Ukraine¡¡¡
Unfortunately I'm very short of time this week, I will watch and coment your recent videos other day ;)
Greets Ollia¡
+amaromem1 Sure) YOu need to see short version at first)
also at 1:02, are those imams next to the orthodox priests? i thought that muslims in ukraine lived in the south only.
+Ubermorph No, muslims lived everywhere. There are 3 million muslims in Ukraine.
+Olga Reznikova I knew that the Jews can be found all over Ukraine, but are there really 3 million muslims in Ukraine? Are these 3 million muslims Ukrainian? Tatars? Or immigrants who live in Ukraine? I also read that Ukrainian(Tatars) muslims live in the South of the country, mainly in Crimea. Are there Ukrainian muslims in the North, West and central regions?
Jews or judaist? Because you compare religion with nation. Not all jews are judaists.
I don't know how many muslims we have in Ukraine really, but official statistic says that it's 3 million.
Of course it's not only Crimean tatars. There are only 260 thousand of Crimea Tatars in Ukraine, and most of them live in Crimea.
Other muslims are caucasians, afgans, arabian people, pakistans, uzbeks and of course ukrainians and russians. And they are not just immigrants, because in Soviet time all nations moved to different part of Soviet Union and after Ukraine become independant a lot of people just stay live here.
Also I think, when ukrainian girl married with muslim husband she become (oftenly) muslim, and then their children become muslims and so on...
We have a lot of mosques in all Ukraine: Odessa, Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lviv... I know that in my city Khmelnytsky muslims 5 years demand from government allow them to build mosque.. So probably we have big muslim community too...
Oh, by the way, mosque in Kyiv is one of the biggest in Europe
+Olga Reznikova As far as I understand it, Jews are the people who follow the Jewish faith. There are many people(Jews) who follow Judaism all over Ukraine. As far as the muslims are concerned, I am sure that figure(official statistic) of 3 million that you quoted includes the immigrants living in Ukraine. The Caucasions(Azerbaijanis, Chechens etc.) may have been in Ukraine for a long time because of the movement of people during the Soviet times, but they are not Ukrainian in terms of being indigenous Ukrainian like yourself. The Arabs, Turks, Africans and Pakistanis are all relatively recent immigrants and they are obviously not Ukrainian. I would classify the Tatars as Ukrainian as they have been in Ukraine for hundreds of years. But how many ethnic Ukrainians like yourself are there in Ukraine? Are there ethnic Ukrainian communities in Ukraine that are muslim? If there are, what is their estimated population in Ukraine?
Yes, I told you, that there are real Ukrainian who are muslims. WHo they are - I don't know, but I think there can be a lot of Ukrainian woman who marry muslim husband and then changed their religion. And then their children are Ukrainians or at least half-ukrainians. but they also become muslims. That's my thoughts, but I don't know
About National Anthem, for some reasons I like Ukrainian more than my own. Awesome.
I am an Indian . I want to study in kharkiv for aeronautical engineering is kharkov is safe for me?
+Kashish Sachdev yes. Good choice!
+Olga Reznikova can i have you contact number I want to know something about kharkov
you can write me on Facebook - facebook.com/olga.reznikova.129
But I don't live in Kharkov, so I don't know a lot about this city
+Olga Reznikova I have text you on facebook
Happy independence day to Ukraine.
+Marko pović Thank you!
You welcome. May I ask you what is the opinion of ukrainians about the first president Kravčuk and later Kučma?
Oh, I even don't know average opinion. Kravchuk was normal, Kuchma in second term had a lot of protests of business and some other stuff, but anyway. there weren't so much negative.
Then was Yushchenko - the biggest dissapoitning for people, then Yanukovich, and you know how it finished...
Why was Yuschenko a dissapointing?
Because when there was Orange revolution and people support him, mostly time they was against Yanukovich, and vote for Yushchenko just not voting for Yanukovich. But after one years Yushchenko makes Yanukovish prime minister of Ukraine.
Also people choose Yushchenko because he promise us europen future, but he also didn't anything for that. Just helps Yanukovich recieve a power. Then Yanukovivh change constitution and all power was in Prime Minister hands, so Yushchenko was just like representative person,not more.
most people in kharkiv is pro ukraine? because i heard that there were a lot of pro russians protests there and even that they wanted to form a "kharkiv people's republic"
+Ubermorph Most people are proukrainian, that's why Kharkiv have peace now. There wasn't a lot protests, and also there was just few people who call for ceparatism. But as we see, people live in Ukraine and they are happy)