About the Hub
CHORNOBYL HUB is a cultural and educational space and a meeting place in the historic centre of Kyiv, on Andriivskyi Descent. Liquidators and people who lived through the events of 1986, historians, nuclear energy experts, guides, students, artists and journalists come here - everyone who cares about the recent history of Ukraine.
Yaroslav Yemelianenko, co-founder of CHORNOBYL TOUR, described the idea of the Hub in March 2016: a great deal of knowledge about Chornobyl had been gathered, but there was no common place to share it. For its first years the Hub was a circle of people meeting wherever they could. In 2019 it found a home of its own - a courtyard abandoned for about thirty years, which we cleared and fitted out ourselves.
What happens here
- open lectures, discussions and meetings with liquidators - free of charge
- training for Chornobyl Zone guides and Chornobyl University classes
- book presentations, photo exhibitions, screenings, concerts and plays
- a free coworking space for people working on the Chornobyl theme
- a volunteer headquarters: during the 2020 fires in the Zone and since the first day of the full-scale war
- the permanent Resistance 2022 exhibition
Who supports us
The work of the Hub is supported by serious international organizations and missions working in Ukraine. We have been thanked by the Kyiv city and regional state administrations, the city of Slavutych, universities, charity foundations, artists and musicians - you can see the letters on the Letters of thanks page.
Address
The Hub is located at 9 Andriivskyi Descent, and its entrance is from 11 Andriivskyi Descent. That is why both numbers can be found in different sources.
It is also home to the headquarters of the Volunteer Center CHORNOBYL - a charity that has helped the people of the Chornobyl region since 2009 and, during the war, soldiers and civilians.
9 Andriivskyi Descent, Kyiv (entrance from 11 Andriivskyi Descent)
CHORNOBYL HUB is a registered trademark, certificate No. 312268.
