Solutions from Ukraine: creative agency and historian join forces to popularize Ukraine's history with interactive Histogram website

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Internet users were shown a new interactive timeline of Ukraine's entire history.

Istorychna Pravda writes about this.

What is the problem?

History helps us be good citizens, understand the causes and consequences of today's situation, and develop our principled position.

"There are things without which we cannot take place as a nation. Therefore, history should occupy a certain place in the creation of society, of a specific person, but so should politics, culture, and the church," emphasized journalist, publicist, and historian Vakhtang Kipiani.

He says that looking for the intersection of history and modernity is important, topics that will make you think and start a discussion.

What is the solution?

To popularize the study of the history of Ukraine and to fill historical gaps, the creative agency SAPHIRA Agency, together with historian Ihor Poluektov, created the Histogram website.

They note that Ihor Poluektov is an enthusiastic historian who researches foreign archives and searches for hitherto unknown facts from the history of Ukraine.

How does it work?

The Histogram site has an interactive timeline showing all known events and gaps in Ukraine's history, ranging from the arrival of the first people up to the present day.

This timeline is not static but dynamic — it will change with each new historical discovery.

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Every enthusiastic researcher can contribute to filling the gaps and become part of the project. Historical discoveries are highlighted on the timeline and presented in articles with complete material about the event.

Histogram created a special project, "Heroes about heroes": modern heroes and heroines (military personnel, doctors, volunteers) tell new and little-known facts about the heroes of the past.

The site has published six audio fragments recorded by the Ukrainian military.

They read out excerpts from the articles of the initiative and call for reading the full text:

• Junior Sergeant Victor Pekar recorded the story of the battle of Orsha in 1514,
• Junior Sergeant Yevhen Belohurov – how the French newspaper Gazette in the early 18th century wrote about Ivan Mazepa.

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It should be noted that on the occasion of the project's official completion, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War presented the exhibition "The Trident of the Motherland," which shares the story of the Trident.