Wedding in the Conditions of War as a Component of Modern Ethnoculture of Ukrainians

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the marriage of Ukrainians in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In order to cover the topic, sources of different informational nature and interpretation methods were analyzed. In particular, we processed official and unofficial Internet resources: informative and popular mass media sites, official web pages of state institutions and event agencies, and also using the method of participant observation we analyzed the open pages of social network users, where a large amount of photo and video materials of present day wedding themes is represented. The publication describes wedding practices among military personnel and critical infrastructure workers in frontline and near-frontline zones; it was noted about the common formats of marriage among the civilian population in the rear regions during the martial law; a review of state legal regulations enabling various options for official marriage registration for military personnel and ordinary Ukrainians was carried out; features of the functioning of traditional and new attributes of wedding rituals are characterized. The role of folk traditions in the formation of the national worldview is clarified, in particular, it is about preserving family values in order to raise the fighting spirit of military personnel, and the emotional and motivating aspects of the life of the members of the Ukrainian ethnoculture during the struggle against the aggressor are also noted. The publication examines trends in the popularization of Ukrainian ethnic culture, in particular, its wedding component in the information space.