Scientific and education project “Ukraine South” of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

The article considers and analyzes the information activities of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the framework of the scientific-educational project “Ukrainian South” (2020-2021), dedicated to revealing little-known pages of the history of Southern Ukraine and refuting Russian imperial myths about this region. Within the framework of the project, historical information-analytical materials on this issue and information on the time of foundation of the southern Ukrainian cities of Dnipro, Mariupol, Pervomaisk, Ovidiopol, Odesa were prepared. With the support of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, a collective monograph “Essays on the history of the development of southern Ukraine in the XV-XVIII centuries” was published in a circulation of 600 copies. The monograph reveals various aspects of the history of settlements in the southern region during this period and the mechanisms of symbolic appropriation of space used by the Russian Empire. In December 2020, the monograph was presented in Kyiv, Dnipro and Odesa (including online due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic). A series of animated videos about the history of steppe Ukraine under the general name “South without myths” has been created. The series includes 5 videos: 1) “Ukrainian South. History of Bіlhorod-Dnistrovsky”; 2) “Ukrainian South. I am a Mazepa admirer”; 3) “Ukrainian south. Early history of Odesa”; 4) “Ukrainian south. The Nekrasov Cossacks”; 5) “Ukrainian South. Khan Ukraine’. The videos were released in January-February 2021.