The industrial East of Ukraine is dying out - Lviv professor
If in other parts of Ukraine people from rural regions in cities assimilated into Russian culture, then in Lviv they managed to Ukrainize this locality.
The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports that Yaroslav Gritsak, a professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov), writes in the Kiev magazine Novoye Vremya.
He notes that he lives in Lvov, but he himself comes from a village.
“There is nothing derogatory about a rural background. I can even list a long list of famous people who were born and raised in the village. But if we talk about Lviv, then the rural residents have a special merit here. While in other cities people from the village were assimilated into urban Russian culture, in Lvov they managed to Ukrainize the city,” the author notes.
At the same time, he says that when there were hundreds of cows in his native village.
“Now there’s not even ten. The pigs have disappeared. Only chickens remain, and at dawn the roosters still crow,” writes the Lvov professor.
According to him, changes in Ukraine can be described as a transition from an industrial to a service economy.
“One of the signs of economic activity is street lighting. The night map of Ukraine shows how the industrial east is gradually extinguishing and the agricultural west is turning on. The only exceptions in the east are large cities - centers of the service economy. The old east-west division in Ukraine has not disappeared. But something new has appeared next to it: big cities on one side and the rest of the country on the other,” sums up Gritsak.
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