Perestroika | Memory of Nations

Perestroika - was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

Bohdan Stefura in his youth in an embroidered shirt

Богдан Стефура Bogdan Stefura

* 1957 †︎ 2024

Ukraine, Important cultural personality in Ukraine

Ukraine in 1986–1991, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Perestroika, The Revival of Ukrainian national culture 1989 - 1991, 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Yurii Storozhynskyi as chairman of the Elektron main plant trade union. Photo made for the newspaper "Trade Union Life", 1982

Юрій Сторожинський Yurii Storozhynskyi

* 1941

Victim of Nazi persecution in Ukraine, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

Ukraine in 1990-s., Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 7 more anniversaries

2015 - MBA graduation from the School of Management-Kyiv

Долінська Тетяна Tetiana Dolinska

* 1973

Ukraine

Ukraine in 1990-s., Perestroika, The Orange Revolution of 2004, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014)

Artemy Maidanik, Moscow, 1971

Артемий Троицкий Artemy Troitsky

* 1955

Russia, Emigrant

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, Perestroika

Yevhen Chystokletov at the Art-Alternatyva Festival, 2010

Євген Чистоклетов Jevgen Chystokletov

* 1961

Ukraine, Artists, Forced displacement from and within Ukraine

Ukraine in 1990-s., The Khrushchev Thaw 1953 – 1964, Perestroika, Ukraine in 1986–1991, The Revival of Ukrainian national culture 1989 - 1991 and 5 more anniversaries

Yevgeny Chichvarkin, businessman, Moscow, Russian Federation, 1990s.

Ing. Čičvarkin Jevgenij Чичваркин Евгений

* 1974

Russia, Politician, Emigrant

Perestroika

1984 - Ellina Shnurko, a photo from her high school graduation album

Елліна Шнурко-Табакова Ellina Shnurko-Tabakova

* 1967

Ukraine, Scientist

Ukraine in 1990-s., Perestroika, Ukraine in 1986–1991, The Ukrainian declaration of independence in 1991, The 1991 referendum in Ukraine and 6 more anniversaries

Nadezda Essen, Chernivtsi, 1970

Надежда Naděžda Эссен Essen

* 1944

Refugee, Ukraine

Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Perestroika

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