European Heritage of Ukraine

Documenting the lost, overlooked and historically significant European heritage of Eastern Ukraine — through places, films and archival material.

Explore the Archive

Select a region on the map to discover its documented locations, heritage sites, and connected films. Three territories — Donbas, Kryvbas and Tavria — form the core geography of this archive.

Exhibitions

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Bringing history to the streets—physical and open-air expositions that make Ukraine’s erased European legacy tangible, visible, and impossible to ignore.

24 September – 10 October, 2026
European Heritage of Eastern and Central Ukraine
Dnipro, Oleksandra Polia Ave. 2V
The exhibition grows to reclaim the forgotten history of Central Ukraine. Explore a newly updated collection of historical photography documenting the profound European footprint in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and Kamianske — uncovering an identity that Soviet myths tried to erase.

Locations

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Archival photographs of the places the archive documents — towns, works, hospitals and railway stations as the cameras of their time found them. Each print opens that place’s record: what stood there, the films shot in it and the people tied to it.

Films

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The cinematic foundation of our living archive. These documentary films serve as the gateway to uncovering Ukraine's forgotten heritage and the deep European history behind each film.

EuroKryvbas
2026 · 71 min · Documentary
The documentary film "EuroKryvbas" updates Soviet myths and reveals that more than a century ago, the Dnipro region was an integral part of the European economy.
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Eurodonbas
2021 · 73 min · Documentary
The documentary Eurodonbas uncovers the region's forgotten 19th-century European legacy—built by international entrepreneurs and later erased by the Soviet Union — just before many of these historical sites were destroyed in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Historical figures

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Discover the visionaries, engineers, and industrialists who shaped the economic and architectural landscape of Ukraine, the region's rapid industrialization and left a lasting European legacy.

About the project

An initiative of the film company 435 FILMS and producer Anna Palenchuk, tracing the European presence in Eastern and Central Ukraine in the late XIX and early XX centuries.

Through places, films and archival material, we restore overlooked stories and the people who shaped them.