Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – January 6, 2021 – Culture
Ladomiria Ethnopark is a very modern and progressive place. He started working in Radyvyliv two years ago and still continues to amaze visitors.
The Ladomiriya project has been actively developing its complex on the revitalized industrial territory in the town of Radyvyliv, Rivne region, for two years now.
At the end of the year, an open-air museum was opened here, which in the future should grow into a large-scale open-air museum.
The initiator of the Ladomiriya project, the head of the Volyn Research and Revival Center NGO, Volodymyr Dziobak, held a tour and press conference on November 15, where he presented the program for the development of the ethnopark for 2021. District journalists also visited the event. History.
During the tour, guests were introduced to the first restored by authentic technology wooden peasant houses, old looms and their new copies, elements of national costumes and costumes of different regions of Volyn. In recent months, the ethnopark team has been diligently restoring old buildings to the open-air museum.
The Ladomiriya collection includes old and new looms. The new ones are designed according to the structure of the old ones and differ only in new details. The weavers who now work in the museum and on the machines did not know how to weave until they came to work.
“Volyn haze” – the first project and business that we revived. He is the heart of Ladomiria. This is a unique technology of weaving ultra-thin linen fabric, which had three main purposes: wedding clothes, the first day of harvest and the big holidays in the summer. And now there is a demand for haze, “says Volodymyr Dziobak.
The procedure of submitting documents and negotiations on the inclusion of the haze and the technology of its production in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites is underway.
In the ethnomapark “Ladomiriya” authentic clothes from all over Greater Volhynia are sewn and they have already been collected for the whole Museum of Authentic Costume, in the collection of which the “bows” in which our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers went are reproduced.
Last year’s main project was the Ethnobrands Workshop, which invited Ukrainian designers and fashion designers, taught them ethnic cuts, and ancient techniques for creating traditional clothing.
In addition to clothes, Ladomiriya reproduces authentic jewelry, in particular, Volyn dukachi. These are coins around which there are various ornaments, frames. Dukachi was used both as an element of a necklace, and as an ornament for clothes, and even for decoration of Christmas trees.
The collection of the ethnopark has a lot of ancient chests, which were brought from all over Volyn. Each of them has its own history, region and secrets.
The ethnopark is actively building its open-air museum: there are already two large two-hundred-year-old houses and cages (a separate building from the house for storing things and served as an additional living space).
“A year and a half ago, Taras Maksymenko called me and told me that there was a house in Rivne that was about 200 years old and said that if it was not taken away, it would be destroyed. We started negotiations with the owners, but the paperwork in state structures slowed down. Officials thought we would neglect that house. But our previous experience allowed us to buy and take it here. Of course, some elements of the building were rotten over time, but our technologies and desires helped us to restore them,” Volodymyr Dziobak shared with the guests.
There is another wooden house from Kosiv district on the territory of the open-air museum. Vladimir bought it from his uncle’s uncle, which “killed two birds with one stone”: he replenished the museum’s exposition and helped the owner of the house financially for treatment.
Ladomiriya is also engaged in book publishing and the revival of the intangible cultural heritage of Volyn. With their participation, a lot of cultural and educational events and evenings were held. Starovolyn cuisine is also being recreated, and the initiator of the project, Volodymyr Dziobak, hopes that these dishes will be included in the menu of the best restaurants in Ukraine. The ethnopark also supports various archeological excavations.
After a cognitive tour of the ethnopark, Volodymyr Dziobak invited everyone to a press conference attended by patrons of the museum. Among them was the mayor of Radyvyliv.
“The project has been going on for 10 years and I try to support it in every possible way: whether it is lighting, or improvement of the territory, or some help in the project itself. But we did not invest in the city budget. It is completely business” says Mykola Karapetyan, Radyvyliv Mayor.
Volodymyr Dziobak’s plans are grand and very interesting. The primary goal of the ethnopark is to open it to visitors and tourists on a regular basis. It is planned to improve the territory and establish Ladomiriya as a powerful tourist hub in a complex with an agricultural cluster, one of the features of which will be the planting of a hectare of territory with “Ukrainian bamboo” – paulownia, which grows quickly and is not capricious to weather conditions.
A total of 13 museums are going to open in the ethnopark. Already in 2021, the Amber Period Park will open, which will show the geological development of the territory of Greater Volhynia for a million years.
A team of Ladomiriya enthusiasts is working to fill the buildings that are already in the open-air museum with furniture.
“With the help of photos, drawings and memories until June, we want to recreate the atmosphere of that time and life in Volyn houses. There is also an agreement to transport a number of old houses and even one windmill to the park,” Volodymyr notes.
Nobody will stop at sewing and replenishing the collection of the Museum of Authentic Clothing, so there are also plans to produce eco-furniture in the Ukrainian style. This month, the ethnopark presents a unique ethnic collection of furniture using authentic painting technologies.
There will also be an eco-farm on the territory of the ethnopark – mushroom growing and an aqua farm – for breeding the king catfish. These products will be used to prepare meals in future Ukrainian food and eco-hotels.
The estimated investment for the implementation of all ideas is $ 25 million. The initiators often finance the project on their own, earn some money, attract patrons and constantly seek grants.
Ladomiriya Ethnopark is not only about the past, it is also a very modern and progressive place that is interesting for adults and children, Ukrainians and foreigners.
