A large bookstore is returning to Khreschatyk in the capital. PHOTO
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In January 2024, a large bookstore will open on the main street of Kyiv. About this UP. Culture reported in the bookstore “Sens” that the institution will open.
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“Sens na Khreshchatyk” – this will be the name of the new bookstore and it will be located next to the Kyiv City Council at 34 Khreshchatyk Street. Previously, this building housed a three-story store of Ukrainian decor.
Other Ukrainian companies also joined the creation of the bookstore. Among them are Work.ua, Alterra Group and Projector Institute.
| “Sens” will be opened on Khreschatyk. Photo courtesy of “Sens” Bookstore |
As Oleksiy Erinchak, the founder of Sensu, wroteTwo years ago, we opened a bookstore-café in the neighborhood so that the neighborhood community would have a place to meet… Today we have the team, the confidence and enough audacity to implement a larger project“.
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| A bookstore will be opened on Khreschatyk. Photo courtesy of “Sens” Bookstore |
Erinchak is convinced that the opening of a new book space on Khreshchatyk should be an impetus for the development of the entire Ukrainian culture: “We are opening today, in the midst of a great war, because we believe that we should pay more attention to our culture. Culture doesn’t just entertain, teach or comfort – it becomes a mouthpiece for changes and a driving force for the development of civil society“.
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| A bookstore will be opened on Khreschatyk. Photo courtesy of “Sens” Bookstore |
This will be the second “Sens” bookstore in Kyiv. The first bookstore-café of the same name opened on the eve of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine in December 2021. Literally a week after the Russian attack, on March 1, “Sens” resumed its work for those people who remained in Kyiv. Later, the bookstore became a volunteer center. The bookstore became fully operational in May 2022, when most of the team returned to Kyiv.
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| The first “Sens” was opened before a full-scale invasion |
Bookstores on Khreschatyk
In different years, many different bookstores worked on the main street of the Ukrainian capital – “Planeta”, “Mystetstvo”, “Noty”, “Znannia”.
For several years there was a struggle for the premises of the last of them – “Knowledge”, which worked on Khreshchatyk for about 75 years. It was eventually closed in 2012. In 2016, a restaurant was opened here, later it was turned into a clothing store.
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| The “Knowledge” bookstore was closed in 2012. Photo: G. Salai |
The only bookstore that managed to survive in the immediate vicinity of Khreshchatyk was “Syaivo”. It is located at the beginning of Velika Vasylkivska Street. Although there was also a long struggle for his premises. However, the bookstore, which was frequented by Ostap Vyshnia, Maksym Rylskyi and Pavlo Tychyna, managed to survive and in November of this year it celebrated its 79th anniversary.
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| Bookstore “Light of the Book” |
Recently, two new bookstores were opened near the main street of Kyiv: in September 2023, the RID bookstore-cafe on Maidan and the bookstore-cafe of Stary Lev Publishing House on Mykhailivska Street in November.
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| RID bookstore |
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