Article(electronic)#1April 15, 2020
Borderland City: Kharkiv
In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 169-196
ISSN: 2292-7956
The article attempts to identify Kharkiv's place on the mental map of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and traces the changing image of the city in Ukrainian and Russian narratives up to the end of the twentieth century. The author explores the role of Kharkiv in the symbolic reconfiguration of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland and describes how the interplay of imperial, national, and local contexts left an imprint on the city's symbolic space.