VISUAL HISTORY / URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS
How key Prague and Poděbrady addresses of Ukrainian heritage evolved: from interwar lecture halls and cemeteries to contemporary facades and memorial plaques.
These are text comparisons based on the dossiers; this version contains no photographs. Disputed and unverified points are marked explicitly, and dates and addresses are given only as far as the dossier sources support them.
Vinohradská 1835/153, Praha 3 – Žižkov
Olšany Cemeteries: from the burial of Oleksandr Oles in 1944 to the exhumation of his remains in January 2017 and reinterment in Kyiv.
Mariánské náměstí 190/5, Praha 1 – Staré Město
The Baroque former Jesuit college that has housed the Slavonic Library (founded 1924) since 1929, and today’s National Library of the Czech Republic.
Ovocný trh 560/5, Praha 1 – Staré Město
The historic premises of Charles University and the Ukrainian academic world: Oleh Kandyba (Olzhych) studied here in 1926–1929. The Ukrainian Free University (UFU) is a separate institution, and the dossier does not tie its solemn Prague opening of 23 October 1921 to the Carolinum.
Jiřího náměstí 1/8, 290 01 Poděbrady
King George’s castle in Poděbrady and the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy (1922–1935): the dossier links the teaching to the castle, but neither the exact premises nor the date of the move is established.
Preslova, čp. 1268 (číslo 15 nebo 5 – rozpor), Praha 5 – Smíchov
The memorial plaque of physicist Ivan Puluj on house no. 1268 in Smíchov. Sources give the Preslova street number differently (15 or 5); the discrepancy is unresolved.