65 km from Chernihiv is the small town of Mena, whose unique cultural heritage can be learned about thanks to the initiative of several caring women.

What do we know about Nova Kakhovka, except that there was a hydroelectric power station there, which was blown up by the occupying Russian troops in the summer? Does the average Ukrainian know that the city was built in the 1950s by the brightest Ukrainian architects, engineers and artists, who, with the assistance of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, created a unique garden city, the concept of which was sustained only in a few cities in the world? Most of these builders belonged to the flower of the Ukrainian national revival of the 1920s, thanks to which the architectural ensemble of Nova Kakhovka was sustained in the Ukrainian spirit. Among the artists working at that time was the artist-boychukist Hryhoriy Dovzhenko, who decorated almost 200 buildings in Nova Kakhovka with monumental panels - “stone embroidery”, which became a kind of attempt to record the history of Ukrainian ornament on the facades of buildings in the young Ukrainian city.