Projects Funded

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

Project	Grantee
A Collection of Testimonies from Ukrainian Teachers	Nadia Ufimtseva
Collecting testimonies from Ukrainian teachers – often persecuted as ‘agents of influence’ – in particular alumni of the Center for Holocaust Studies
Diaries of War: Documenting Life Experiences in Spring 2022	Bohdan Shumylovych
Using methodologies of lived experience and embodiment, this project documents experiences of war through creative collaboration and social analysis.
Elderly War-Affected People in Contemporary Ukraine	Hanna Bondarenko
Documenting the impact of war on Ukrainians aged 65-90, an oft-overlooked group many of whom are encountering war for the second time in their lives
Justice Initiative Fund	Stanislav Aseyev
Creating a memorial site to preserve the facts of Russian atrocities in the national memory of Ukraine
Kharkiv - My Favorite City	Yevhenii Telukha
Preserving the memories of Kharkiv’s citizens by charting their favourite places on an interactive digital map
Methodology of Documenting War Stories for the Virtual Museum of Russian Aggression	Olha Volianiuk
Revealing the peculiarities of developing documentary war stories via the presentation of case studies for the Virtual Museum of Russian Aggression
Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mykhailo Volkov
Following photographer Alexander Chekmenev’s search for a girl he photographed two decades ago to give her a promised print and to hear her story
Survive and Win: The Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022	Roman Mykhalchuk
Documenting testimony of Russian trauma and aggression from evacuees, volunteers, soldiers, government reps and local elites doing all they can to win
Testimonies from the Fortunoff Archive	Maryna Poliakova
Working with the Fortunoff Video Archive to make testimonies by Russian and Ukrainian speakers more accessible through editing and transcription.
The Heritage
A film about memory and change that serves as a portrait of the invading forces, seeking to capture reasons for actions seemingly beyond understanding
The Past Unsimple
A hybrid documentary project tracing elusive and eloquent memory narratives in the setting of the Ukrainian periphery
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women