Likitsary is a little village located deeply in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Almost two dozen people live there, all of them older than 60. „ In Soviet times, when we still lived here with our children and parents”, Mykhaylo Maychak is reporting, „the government tried to scared us away. Because of the russian launch station for missiles at the mountains across.”
The children had to attend a boarding school down in the valley. The gravel path which leads up through the forest to Likitsary never has been paved. In winter time with all the snow the village was cut off from the outside world. „The one who didn´t take care for enough food got into serious trouble”, he remember. At night it is pitch-dark in the village, no street-lights, no running water yet.
The children had to attend a boarding school down in the valley. The gravel path which leads up through the forest to Likitsary never has been paved. In winter time with all the snow the village was cut off from the outside world. „The one who didn´t take care for enough food got into serious trouble”, he remember. At night it is pitch-dark in the village, no street-lights, no running water yet.
After the fall of the Soviet Empire and the entry of the neighbour countries into EU especially the young habitans of Likitsary left the hamlet westbound in hope of a modern life, only the old ones remained.
Only recently a rich Ukrainian from Kiew bought an old, half-decayed farmhouse an rebuilt it into a holiday cottage. Now the old people hope that life returns to Likitsary.
Only recently a rich Ukrainian from Kiew bought an old, half-decayed farmhouse an rebuilt it into a holiday cottage. Now the old people hope that life returns to Likitsary.
