The artist Ihor Solodovnikov from Cherkasy found an unique archive of photographs of his grandfather Ivan Lytvyn in the attic. The grandson digitized the whole grandfather's archive.  It was about 5,000 photos, which were published. They preserved the faces of Ukrainian peasants and still living folk traditions that did not fall into the lens of official Soviet photographers.  

We can see the real post-war and closed Ukrainian village in Soviet collective farms and how the peasants actually lived.  Lytvyn's photographs create an unique and realistic image of time in one of the turning points in Ukrainian history- in the late 1950s and early 1970s.

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