Opening the Resistance 2022 exhibition.

In the spring of 2022 we announced that we were gathering an exhibition of trophies. On July 9 it opened in the CHORNOBYL HUB courtyard. The idea was Yaroslav Yemelianenko’s.

The exhibits were brought by volunteer teams that supply military units: fragments of missiles and shells, equipment and personal belongings abandoned by russian soldiers on Ukrainian soil. Next to them are works by Ukrainian artists made from the remains of these missiles.

An ejection seat from a bomber shot down near Chernihiv, torn in half. The guidance unit of a Tochka-U missile made back in 1986 in Soviet Dnipropetrovsk. And a Tula samovar from 1895 found in a dugout near Hostomel: the invaders had been told they were flying to a parade, so they even brought family heirlooms.

Every exhibit has a QR code: you can send money to the very unit or volunteers who donated the item. The exhibition has been open ever since, admission is free and we take schoolchildren around free of charge. The Department of Culture and Tourism of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, the Kyiv city tourism department and the Omriiana Kraina foundation thanked the Hub for creating it.