This was reported by Natalia Vintsarska, Spokesperson for the Kamianets-Podilskyi District Police Department, as quoted by Suspilne and relayed by Ukrinform. "Today, on February 5, an explosion occurred near the Territorial Recruitment Center in Kamianets-Podilskyi. Preliminary information indicates that one man has died, and four others have been injured," the report stated. The National Police in Khmelnytskyi region confirmed the explosion, stating that the incident took place around 13:00. Emergency services, a forensic laboratory, and the investigative-operational group of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Khmelnytskyi region are currently working at the scene. The cause and circumstances of the explosion are being investigated. Further details will be provided later. 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Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. marking the Khmelnytskyi region’s 2nd center of its kind9 October 4:45 PM EESTThis signifies the opening of the 41st Recruitment Center in Ukraine A similar establishment was inaugurated in the city of Khmelnytskyi towards the end of July Individuals have the opportunity to obtain all necessary advice at the following address: 1 Specially educated non-military recruiters are also available to offer comprehensive information by phone: +38(097) 482 5908 “This is a great initiative of the Ministry of Defence that will help attract motivated Ukrainians to defend our country We encourage all community residents not to hesitate but to come to the Center and make an important decision for themselves,” said Mykhailo Positko The Ukrainian Army Recruitment Center's operating hours are from 8:00 to 17:15 on Monday through Thursday and from 8:00 to 16:00 on Friday The Recruitment Center will not serve call-up papers individuals can discover here a role within the Defence Forces that aligns with their professional background in civilian life and personal interests “This acts as a starting point for anyone thinking about joining the Defense Forces on a voluntary basis people have the opportunity to get all the necessary information and discover the best ways to apply their skills in defense of the country The state now enables direct applications for mobilization to a proffered military unit and for a proffered role,” stated Oleksii Bezhevets recruitment officer for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence 20,150 individuals have reached out to Recruitment Centers of the Ukrainian Army Women account for 18% of the applicants looking to get into the Defence Forces the Ukrainian Army's Recruitment Centers network will be established Recruitment through these Centers is currently available in 18 regions Please visit the official website for contact information of 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You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page This was stated by the head of the National Police the latest one at 13:00 today in Kamianets-Podilskyi Someone approached the draft office checkpoint carrying a bag Three of the nine incidents targeted police officers," Vyhivskyi said the perpetrators have been identified and arrested The head of the National Police noted that since last year law enforcers have been aware that Russian intelligence are on a hunt for security and defense operatives The enemy has been coming up with various methods and ways to commit attacks against police operatives a police squad was called up to an apartment where an explosive device was disguised as a children's toy," said Vyhivskyi that this is a specific attack by Russian intelligence aimed to creating a false public narrative and sowing a negative attitude toward our country’s Security and Defense Forces," he stressed Vyhivskyi focused on the fact that as a rule Russians recruit younger people under the age of 20 who are not yet aware of all the accountability these are specifically people involved in drug trafficking," he said Russian intelligence operatives stop short of actually paying their recruits a promised reward "The latest two cases – the one Rivne and today's incident – indicate that they now tend to eliminate those they’ve recruited," the head of the National Police emphasized if they are aware of any potential terrorist attacks to report them to the SBU and National Police an explosion rocked the area outside a military draft office in Kamianets-Podilskyi one person was killed and four suffered injuries While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 This imposing stone edifice was originally constructed in the 14th century, and though it's been rebuilt and remodeled many times over the centuries, it is incredibly well-preserved. The castle is by far the primary reason for visitors to make the trek to Kamianets-Podilskyi, a city of 100,000 people situated along the Smotrych River in western Ukraine Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle was a crucial defensive bulwark in western Ukraine for centuries with an unparalleled record of repelling invaders from Cossacks to Ottoman Turks to Tatars It also boasts the unheard-of feat of successfully resisting a staggering 51 attacks by the Mongol hordes of the 13th and 14th centuries The castle at one time featured no less than 12 towers as it sits picturesquely sprawled over the hillside across the winding Smotrych River towers that any castle junkie could hope for After crossing the bridge you approach the entrance to the castle pay a nominal fee and you're inside. If you don't have your own vehicle to reach the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi there are buses available from all major cities of western Ukraine such as L'viv or Khmelnitskiy.  A well preserved medieval fortress in Vojvodina This Arab fortress was once the largest citadel in Western Europe This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins An 11th-century mountaintop fortress that played a crucial role in Italy's papal wars is now a vacation rental An annual goat race takes place within the walls of this medieval castle The ruins of a 15th-century castle that has seen its fair share of bitter feuds This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress as leaving the USSR consumed my daily existence I developed something of an obsession with our family tree I perused family albums (some of which wouldn’t survive emigration) and I pestered my parents with questions they didn’t necessarily feel like answering and in archiving vestiges of our ancestors’ Jewish Lithuanian and Soviet pasts I was finding some of the keys to our family’s refusenik present I discovered that a learned family history both filled one with pain and comforted with afterknowledge I was now more of a Bostonian than a Muscovite—and not just as measured by the length of lived time no longer a stateless person but a naturalized U.S and throughout 2000-2019 I visited almost every year I had first tried to write about my grandparents following the death of my maternal grandmother in 2009 She had immigrated to America with us and died in Providence Having lived as a new American for over twenty years she most regretted not having visited her brother’s grave in Moscow and not having learned to drive I included pages about my grandparents’ lives—before and after the Pale—in my book “Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story,” which came out in 2013 when the situation in Russia did not seem so disconsolate I had last visited Russia in the summer of 2019 with Tatiana As we washed the family gravestones at the Preobrazhenskoe Jewish Cemetery in St where both my paternal grandmother and many relatives on my father’s side rest I told myself—as I had for several previous summers—that it was probably going to be my last visit to Putin’s Russia and the COVID pandemic only finalized the “valediction”—although without “forbidding mourning.” After Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 I found myself in the grip of a renewed quest to understand how my grandparents and their family members used to live in or near the areas where Russia’s bombs and missiles were now annihilating life and memory I thought I had already achieved a knowledge of my late grandparents’ stories But the war in Ukraine had given me new optics while also forcing me to breach the moat of historical time that I had never imagined overcoming Like a middle-aged person accoutered with bifocals of historical clarity All four of my late grandparents came from the Pale of Settlement from what are now regions of independent Ukraine and Lithuania In their youth all four of my grandparents had made sweeping—and in many ways successful—transitions As were hundreds of thousands of Jewish families of the Pale ours was torn apart by winds of revolution As did tens of thousands of children of the Pale in the late 1920s and early 1930s all four of my grandparents actively sought a place and a career in a new world which during the first two Soviet decades still intoxicated the Jews with a promise of equality All four of my grandparents were culturally Russianized Over the decades of living outside the former Pale even their first names and patronymics had become palimpsests of acculturation a Jewish past still echoed in my parents’ birth certificates issued before World War 2 My paternal grandfather Peysakh Borukhovich became Pyotr Borisovich My maternal grandfather Aron Ikhilovich put on the tidy clothes of Arkady Ilyich And only old university friends from Kharkiv remembered my outwardly Slavic maternal grandmother Anna Mikhailovna as the once Jewish Nyusya Moshkovna Both of my mother’s parents grew up in the Ukraine (which has since blessedly lost its definite article) Around the time of my grandmother’s birth After living with the family of her father’s sister in the Podolian town of Horodok she left home as a teenager to go to junior college My maternal grandmother came of age when the Soviet Union was moving at a fast clip toward Stalinism my grandmother lived much of her adult life in the Soviet Union by pretending to believe in the official ideology she had weathered Stalinism and learned to be a survivalist My grandmother told me about being a student at Kharkiv Economics Institute in the 1930s an old Bolshevik and then President of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic my grandmother and two girlfriends stayed up all night sifting through photo albums in search of their pictures taken alongside Petrovskyi at a gala for top university students The pictures with the deposed Ukrainian leader were either eviscerated or burned altogether I spent a great deal of time alone with grandmother Anna Mikhailovna and curiously I don’t recall my grandmother’s Sovietness spilling into our conversations Perhaps I just don’t remember or don’t wish to remember What I do remember about my mother’s mother was the striking degree of her Russianization and assimilation While she remained “Jewish” in her official Soviet papers (“Jewishness” was defined as nationality or ethnicity she looked and deliberately acted Slavic and un-Jewish she concealed Jewishness in her public life grandmother Anna Mikhailovna forbade her elderly father to speak Yiddish and tried hard to hide matzos from the non-Jewish neighbors she made traditional Russian blinis during Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) the Orthodox Christian festival marking the last week before Lent Around Orthodox Easter (a week after Passover) my grandmother used to bake the traditional Paschal sweet bread (kulich) to blend in with the rest of the neighbors She had been raised in a Yiddish-speaking household with a father who until his death in 1953 started his days with putting on the tfillinand mouthing his prayers my grandmother had lost (or suppressed?) the ability to speak Yiddish almost entirely Only occasionally would I hear words like makhteneste (mother-in-law) or abisale (a bit) coming out of her mouth as though they lived a life of their own in the vaults of her memory virtually free of any Jewish or Ukrainian accent save for an occasionally mis-stressed past tense feminine verb her Russian speech with its languorous intonations still betrayed a long-term resident of old Moscow My mother’s parents were as different as two people could be and yet an “accident of fate” brought them together After graduating with a degree in economics my grandmother had been sent to my grandfather’s home town of Kamianets-Podilskyi to work in the regional planning department In 1939 my grandfather stopped in Kamianets-Podilskyi on the way back from a vacation in North Caucasus He called on my grandmother at her office to deliver a message from a fellow engineer from Moscow The suitor had proposed to my grandmother in a letter a year earlier and she replied that “her plans for the future were still wide open.” After calling on my grandmother my grandfather (a young engineer whom her co-workers described as a “tall There was a little party at the house of my grandfather’s sister Chaya-Sura (Surele to her family A few weeks later my grandmother visited my grandfather in Moscow for the May 1 holiday if we get married,” he told my grandmother “then they can’t force you to go back.” My mother probably owed her conception to the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact on August 23 1939 and the brief interlude of prewar calm My maternal grandfather Arkady died when I was eight after going blind (a complication of poorly treated diabetes and loving life) he still charged those around him with an intensity of mind and a generosity of heart that I have hardly encountered since his departure grandfather Arkady acquires Olympian proportions One of my strongest memories of him is coming to visit him as a child and finding him in his den playing cards with two old friends and treating his company and himself to the abundant zakuski crowding the side table next to his divan there was something incredibly mystifying and liberating to see my gourmand grandfather playing “Preference” with his pals Grandfather Arkady came from a solid Kamianets-Podilskyi middle-class Jewish family with roots in the nearby small town of Orinin were Zionists and escaped to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine to become halutzim while another brother and two sisters stayed in the Soviet Union my maternal grandfather moved to Moscow from Ukraine After two or three years of working as a stone-mason he had managed to obliterate his “bourgeois” past and get himself accepted to an engineering school both of his parents had already passed on: my great-grandmother Chana-Feyga in 1935 in their native Kamianets-Podislkyi and my great-grandfather Ilya (Ikhil) Polyak in 1933 in the faraway Birobidzhan an enclave on the Soviet-China border where he was building the Jewish Autonomous Province Grandfather Arkady went on to have a career as a communications engineer he never quite shed the skin of a Ukrainian Jew broadcasting itself through his overachievements through his distinctly Jewish view of history Something in the way my mother’s father carried himself left even me while also managing not to lose to the system at its games and machinations He was—not even through what he said but through what he didn’t say how he said it at the dinner table—the source of my mother’s early ideological dissent His inner opposition counterbalanced my grandmother’s Soviet conformism as the Soviet policies toward Israel became increasingly hostile grandfather Arkady was having to avoid a direct correspondence with his siblings and family there so as not to destroy his career and his children’s happiness He employed the services of a Leningrad-based Jewish woman taking advantage of a brief interlude that preceded the complete severing of diplomatic relations with Israel during the Six-Day War traveled to the Soviet Union and stayed in Moscow for over a week She and her brother hadn’t seen each other in forty years Being with sister Tsilya reignited grandfather Arkady’s desire to get his children out of Russia At the time my young parents were storming the career heights and wouldn’t hear of it Yet the first seeds of a Jewish yearning to emigrate had been planted in my parents’ hearts in 1965 Was it destiny or the legacy of my grandfathers’ origins that brought my parents together in 1962 actually the wedding of the future Prisoner of Zion Hillel Butman and Eva Beckman in Leningrad where my father’s people had been living since the early 1930s The wife of my father’s eldest uncle happened to be a cousin of my mother’s father and the wedding gave the Polyaks and the Shrayers a chance to remember their place of origin Natives of Kamianets-Podislkyi (Kamenets-Podolsk) lovingly referred to it simply as “Kamenets.” A place quite mythological to me when I heard about it during my Moscow childhood it had been absolutely real to both my grandfathers and my maternal grandmother Located on the banks of the Smotrich River close to the border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Kamianets-Podislkyi had been the capital of the Podolia Province and an important regional center of commerce On the eve of World War I there were 23,000 Jews had been living in the environs of Kamianets-Podislkyi since the middle of the nineteenth century a milling business was the Shrayer family enterprise who was born in 1875 in the village of Dumanov outside Kamianets-Podislkyi and died in Leningrad in 1946 was the last one in our loud dynasty of millers His first wife died in childbirth after giving birth to a little girl who only lived for a year were two and three when their birth mother died In 1906 my great-grandfather married Fanya (Freyda) Kizer who came from a poor family and was interested in socialism She raised her husband’s two children like her own Great-grandmother Fanya Shrayer and great-grandfather Borukh-Itsik had three boys In the 1910s the family moved from the countryside My father’s father grew up in a financially secure family where Judaic religious rituals were loved the Shrayer siblings had received instruction in Judaic law and custom and a solid European education and the Shrayer children were also exposed to colloquial Ukrainian and Polish my great-grandfather Borukh-Itsik didn’t shun modernity but respected traditions on the eve of the two revolutions that brought the Russian Empire to its collapse my grandfather’s father bought a white stucco house on Sobornaya (Cathedral) Street from an impoverished Polish count and installed his family in an upper–middle-class neighborhood In 1917–21 regimes and occupation forces came and went in Kamianets-Podislkyi: Provisional Government Still aspiring to the lifestyle of the urban haute bourgeoisie during the years of the New Economic Policy even my shrewd great-grandfather hadn’t anticipated the voracity and destructive pace of the Soviet experiment who had been active in the local Socialist-Zionist movement and interested in agriculture left Kamianets-Podislkyi and sailed off from Odessa for Palestine The family had been broken up and never recovered after his departure The presence of a son and brother in Israel would later become a verdict in the hands of the Soviet system In 1927 my Shrayer grandfather moved to Leningrad and started working there first as a plasterer and later as a hospital orderly when the country was about to close the door on the New Economic Policy and private entrepreneurship as it entered the Five Year Plan what remained of the Shrayer milling business was levied with excruciating state taxes and shut down The family in Ukraine had fallen into hard times the former Merchant of the First Guild Borukh-Itsik Shrayer having already spent two months in jail for allegedly concealing assets from the Soviet authorities was living in Leningrad in tiny rooms he shared with his wife and eldest children Yet even in Leningrad his business talents didn’t lie dormant He became a “requisitioner” for the film studios spending his days in a mad chase after clothes equipment and whatever else was needed to shoot a picture a life without Kamenets and against many Soviet currents emigrated from Ukraine in the former Pale—to Leningrad the Soviet world that all four of my grandparents encountered in the late 1920s To the young Jewish men and women born in the late 1890s and early 1900s the large Soviet cities beaconed with career opportunities and escape routes when the Shrayers made the move from the former Pale to Leningrad my grandfather and his siblings had all managed to whitewash their origins by working menial jobs and earning workers’ status It was a struggle—”friends” from Kamenets sent anonymous letters to their places of work and study denouncing them as “bourgeois elements.” Yet by the middle of the 1930s my grandfather Pyotr and his three siblings had graduated from colleges and universities to become Soviet professionals (“specialists”) In the late 1930s and 1940s grandfather Pyotr had the most glamorous career of the four of them Having joined the Party while studying mechanical engineering at the university he was favored for his practical talent and leadership skills rose to the position of chief engineer of Leningrad’s “department of trams and trolleybuses.” He volunteered for the Soviet–Finnish War of 1939 and during World War II he was transferred to the Navy and decorated for valor he saw his last war action at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) in April of 1945 my grandfather was dismissed from a prominent position at the transportation branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs because the Soviet policy toward the young Jewish state had taken a sinister turn and my grandfather had a brother in Israel The postwar years brought not only professional but also personal devastation only my mother’s mother Anna Studnits I loved my maternal grandfather Arkady Polyak but lost him when I was eight I only got a few glimpses of my paternal grandfather Pyotr Shrayer far too few to be able to judge his character but perhaps enough to appreciate how little of his outer composure and wit I have inherited But I never knew my father’s late mother as my parents wouldn’t meet for almost two years after her death when my father was serving as a military physician in Belarus She was only forty-nine when she left this world I like to think that the spirit of my Litvak grandmother looks gladly upon my family safeguarding us from the brutalities and betrayals of time And yet the noun “grandmother” tastes bitter on my lips when I speak of my father’s mother stranger and even bitterer in English than it is in Russian more acutely than I missed my late grandfathers I miss her every time I recognize in myself a trait that my father had inherited not from his father’s side and that I don’t know to be of my mother and her parents It must be from my grandmother’s ancestors that my father has taken an idealistic belief in universal fairness I felt my Lithuanian grandmother’s blood flowing in my veins and reminding me of Lithuania where we come from on one side of the family Bella Breydo (Broyde is an alternative spelling) was born in 1911 in Šiauliai (Shavel) and grew up in Panevėžys (Ponevezh) At the turn of the century the Lithuanian town of Šiauliai had about 10,000 Jews out of the total population of about 17,000 residents had descended from a long line of Litvak rabbis which may have included the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchok Aizik Broida Rabbi Broyde and his younger children fled from Lithuania to the town of Polatsk in the Vitebsk Province Grandmother Bella rebelled against her father and left home as a young woman an agitprop performance group founded in 1923 and touring the country all through the 1920s and early 1930s The blue-blousers preached an aesthetic of new proletarian simplicity of style disdaining the bourgeoisie and mocking its cultural accoutrements Grandmother Bella moved to Leningrad to study organic chemistry Daughter of a rabbi who scorned secular art Pushkin and Esenin were her favorite poets During my father’s childhood and youth his mother’s Jewish pride manifested itself in her contempt for ethnic prejudice and also in the culinary traditions that she faithfully followed while living in a communal apartment with Russian neighbors she made gefilte (stuffed) carp and noodle kugel refused to leave his home despite his children’s entreaties a Belarusian neighbor told my grandmother that the old rabbi was shot by a Nazi hand while praying over his sacred books My grandmother’s elder brother Eyno Broyde who had stayed in Lithuania and served as a bank executive in Panevėžys was most likely killed with his entire family in August 1941 dated “Panevėžys 1931,” has been preserved in the family archive alongside a later photo of my father’s cousin Ruvim Broyde marked “16 August 1940 Panevėžys” and inscribed in Russian: “For good remembrance to all of your dear ones I learned from my father that after the war his mother and her siblings heard an unconfirmed rumor that their brother’s family had escaped to South Africa where Lithuanian Jews had been immigrating through the Baltic seaports Grandmother Bella had even tried to locate them through the International Red Cross we immediately connected on the subject of her immigrant parents’ roots in present-day Lithuania and Ukraine a Boston-based obstetrician formerly of Johannesburg heard of the disappeared Lithuanian family members on my grandmother’s side he asked after the last name and offered to look into it through his relatives still remaining in South Africa In the summer of 2004 Karen and I drove across Lithuania first from the Latvian border in the north via Šiauliai to Vilnius then all to the way to Klaipėda (whence Lithuanian Jews used to sail to South Africa) down the Curonian Spit toward the former East Prussia (now Russia’s Kaliningrad Province) as my parents teetered on the verge of deciding to emigrate and I remember feeling that we had no living relatives there but only marked and unmarked graves The Lithuanian trip my wife and I took in 2004 was a journey through a map of Jewish death and not only because of the many Shoah sites we visited but mainly because we both felt that no living Jewish life connected us to Lithuania’s present Karen and I felt relief after our Helsinki-bound plane had taken off from Estonia’s capital travels would take us to many places of vibrant Jewish history including Recife-Olinda in Brazil’s Northeast but not to where our roots were in Eastern Europe My wife and I talked about a trip to ancestral places in the present-day Ukraine—to North Bukovina (Chernivtsi which was Cernăuți and still in Romania when her father was born) and to Podolia—my grandfathers’ Kamianets-Podilskyi and my grandmother’s Bar and Horodok in part because our daughters would soon be born and in part because neither of us was keen to go where death and genocide had destroyed our family’s past As today’s undergraduates love to say in their essays it was ironic that I started visiting Ukraine in the early 2010s—not because of family connections but because of my research on the Shoah in the occupied Soviet territories I was working on a book about the murder of Jews in Crimea and the earliest literary witnesses to the Shoah I was last in Ukraine in the autumn of 2013 just months before Russia’s annexation of Crimea and we spent time in Kyiv before flying to Crimea Whether it was because we never made it to Podolia or for other reasons that had not been clear to me at the time but I cannot say that I felt an emotional closeness to Ukraine—nothing comparable to the heady mixture of cultural love and political repulsion that I endured while visiting my native Russia I stopped going there because I didn’t want in any way to endorse Russia’s aggression And Ukraine as such was not enough of a draw for me at the time Most of the ties with Ukraine had been severed before I was born—and long before emigration And here comes the part I didn’t—couldn’t—anticipate either emotionally or intellectually As Russian troops sought to murder Ukraine and as Ukraine fought for her right to be And I also felt how from the deep roots of family history once ripped out of the former Pale but never completely severed from it branches of a newborn kinship with Ukraine were growing inside me—bursting through me As I went back to what had survived of our family’s memory of Ukrainian roots why we never visited Ukraine when I was growing up in Moscow and also her younger sister and an Israeli-born first cousin on my grandfather’s side My mother was born in Moscow on 19 May 1940 and three days before Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union On 22 June 1941 my grandmother and my mother happened to be in Kamianets-Podilsk on vacation staying in the ancestral home where my grandfather’s sister Sonya was living with her family escaped on what were the last trains before Kamianets-Podilskyi was occupied Kamianets-Podilskyi became the site of one of the largest massacres of World War 2 both local and the ones deported there by Hungarian authorities whom members of German Einsatzgruppen and police units Hungarian troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries killed in Kamianets-Podilskyi included relatives both on the Polyak side and on the side of Perets Limonchik to whom my grandfather’s elder siter Sonya was married Relatives on the Horodok side of the family were also murdered among them a cousin of my maternal grandmother’s with a young child my mother and father visited Ukraine and saw their close relatives who had returned to what in 1943 Vasily Grossman had called “Ukraine without Jews.” In the late 1940s and 1950s we still had family members in Kamianets-Podilskyi By the time my parents met and married in 1962 there were few relatives on either side left in Ukraine Some of the older survivors had died in the 1950s Those included my maternal grandfather’s sister Sonya who passed away in 1952 and rests in her native Kamianets-Podilskyi with other family members our native Kamianets-Podilsyi was stripped of its status as a provincial capital and absorbed into the newly created Khmelnitskyi Province evoked both the legacy of the massive anti-Jewish violence of 1648 and the more recent memories of the 1919 pogrom carried out by units of the Ukrainian People’s Army our relatives had left Ukraine in the late 1950s and early 1960s due to antisemitic professional restrictions and rampant popular antisemitism This was the case with my grandfather’s younger sister Riva (Revekka) Polyak a professor of medicine who moved from Chernivtsi in the former North Bukovina to Stavropol in the foothills of the Caucasus This was also the case with Israel Shrayer a professor of surgery who left Vinnitsa in the late 1950s and moved to Kemerovo in Siberia Relatives of ours ended up living in the Urals and on the Kamchatka An older unmarried cousin from Odessa made aliyah in the early 1960s when the future exodus of Soviet Jews was still a tiny creek All of the above helps explain why my grandmother Anna only spoke of Ukraine in the past perfect—both literally and figuratively—and never visited after the early 1960s at the funeral of another first cousin of my grandmother’s so solemn and so furrowed that it made me think of an Egyptian mummy Now that the war in Ukraine no longer augurs the possibility of visiting Russia I ask myself what’s left in my quest to assemble a family history And other questions: What would my next visit to Ukraine amount to It is strange (and almost incongruous) to think that Russia’s brutal neocolonial war brought me closer to my Ukrainian roots to lean yet again on the Dostoevskian cane of phrase I wake up every day and hope for Ukraine to regain her peace I want to visit the towns of Bar and Horodok the stomping grounds of grandmother Anna’s tender youth where my young grandmother Anna attended university in the 1930s I want to walk around Kamianets-Podilskyi and environs and see with my own eyes what remains of the family mills and of the cobbled inner courtyard of the stucco family home where in April 1939 my still unmarried grandparents Aron and Nyusya danced to wheezy gramophone music under the ripening Podolian stars And I want to stand in Odessa’s Practical Harbor and stare at the water that lapped at the shore when my father’s Uncle Munia sailed off to Jaffa in 1924 I want to hug the land of Ukraine with my feet and whole body Maxim D. Shrayer is a professor at Boston College. His recent books include “Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature” and “A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas.” Shrayer’s newest book is “Of Politics and Pandemics.” Early parts of this essay previously appeared in Maxim D. Shrayer’s Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story elections in the 39th World Zionist Congress nears conclusion—voting closes May 4—American Zionist Movement (AZM) Executive Director Herbert Block said there were few barriers of entry to voting in what Jewish leaders are describing as a consequential election We are here today because Jewish fathers and mothers wanted more than happiness from their children The bipartisan group includes Los Angeles representatives Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) and Ted Lieu (D-West LA) Speaking ill of someone once most likely leads to a second time It was established that the mayor of the city participated in the plenary session of the city council in voting on the appointment of a person who made voluntary contributions to Positko's election fund during the 2020 mayoral elections in Kamianets-Podilskyi.In addition it decided to set the maximum possible amount of bonuses for high achievements in work for this person as well as determined the amount of monthly bonuses In February, the Kamianets-Podilskyi City District Court of Khmelnytskyi Oblast found him guilty of committing administrative offenses related to corruption.The mayor of Kamianets-Podilskyi was fined UAH 6,800, and the relevant information will be entered into the Register of infringers. Entire content is available under licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Home page » Topics » Space Transformation » Kamianets-Podilskyi The long-standing city of Kamianets-Podilskyi is known for its fortress organic mix of cultures from various nations This story is about falling in love with the challenging hot air balloon business why flying in one in the sky is like yachting and what the prospects are for this industry in Ukraine Yurii Moshynskyi first saw a hot air balloon in Kamianets-Podilskyi He was captivated by the dream of being an aircraft pilot and around 2013 he started flying hot air balloons on his own he watched his fear of heights vanish before him and he is positive that Kamianets-Podilskyi stands a pretty good chance of becoming a ballooning center When Yurii first saw that hot air balloon ten years ago He started as a handyman for professionals and later was officially admitted as a full member of the Kamianets-Podilskyi’s ballooning center and I asked them to make such a gift for me on my birthday I invited myself into the basket as a passenger Yurii just wanted to come close to such an unbelievable process and together with that I slowly came to the conclusion that I had to move further and studied for and passed all the required exams and from 2013 onwards I was already flying as a pilot Yurii said that ballooning is the key thing for him these days — it gives him extreme joy: One thing I’m absolutely sure about is that you have to do something that gives you pleasure Today Yurii is a member of the Kamianets ballooning club It was founded nearly 10 years ago and has over 12 people in it besides piloting the balloon you need someone to maintain it — to bring it to the right place A new balloon alone costs around 30 thousand euros not including the spare parts and accessories the lifespan of the flying craft is limited to 500-600 hours Yurii says that the places where you can buy a balloon are also limited: — There are a few major manufacturers that make balloons In Europe there are five to six main firms (in Czechia and Spain) that have been making hot air balloons for decades Ukraine also had its own balloon production back in the day Yurii says it might have been changed following the events of 2013-2014: balloons were manufactured at a factory in Feodosia (in Crimea) after those notorious events we all are aware of I think they stopped making even parachutes The balloon which Yurii’s club members are flying on is equipped with two 60-litre tanks connected with tubes to the special device called the burner Once the air inside the envelope (the “balloon” part) is heated Yurii explains the simple principle of managing the flying craft: If you need to go lower you leave it as is Thanks to the fact that the directions of air currents slightly differ at various heights we can guide the balloon to the right or to the left Yurii explained that hot air balloons are considered to be the safest aircrafts since their required weather conditions are quite rigid You cannot fly under windy or rainy conditions That’s why the flights are performed on only sunny and calm days and they normally go without any problems or complications Balloon flights usually take place in summer as the ballooning season is dependent on the tourist season: — There is no difference whether you fly in summer or winter it is colder everywhere — it gets chilly on the ground as well and the other half we sit and eagerly wait for the summer to come you can find a radio station for communications a barometer-altimeter to show the height and the fall rate of the balloon and the GPS device to determine the coordinates and horizontal speed Yurii thinks people are the main factor that bring difficulties to controlling the balloon have negative feelings towards the aircraft Sometimes passengers are hard to deal with since it’s often their first experience on a balloon flight: But for now it is okay — somehow we manage to calm people and convince them to follow the instructions Yurii says no passengers have caused any real drama it takes two to three minutes for them to realize what is happening and even those who are afraid of heights lose that fear: they start taking selfies and putting themselves half out of the basket — that is when I get really worried Whereas with the local people it is completely opposite Joyful contemplation can shift to inexplicable negativity: — Last year it nearly ended up with a pitchfork standoff is this an everyday thing having a balloon landing by your house This year was the first time we had such a case The Kamianets ballooning club where Yurii works was based here not only because of the local enthusiasts Ballooning festivals are now an integral part of the Kamianets tourist culture because of the perfect blend of environmental conditions and the unbelievable beauty of the ancient architecture The tourist season opener is in May at the Podillia’s Championship festival and the season’s closing takes place in October at the Golden Omega festival: Although yachts only use one horizontal plane while we have got an endless number of different planes we also try to catch the wind just like yachts but we can catch it at the various heights That is why Kamianets is unique — its terrain gives very good manoeuvring feasibility Flying here is really exciting because of that Yurii is sure that Kamianets-Podilskyi may reasonably become Ukraine’s ballooning centre But a lot of efforts and resources are required to make this happen As an example Yurii points out the Japanese city of Saga He says that Saga is a unique location for flying a balloon There is a flat valley surrounded by the mountains on all sides: About 100 balloons take off — last year it was 115 — and they all take off simultaneously The city that seemingly had nothing to offer to tourists has found itself in a ballooning business Well played by the unique location and wisely put development strategies the city’s infrastructure is now all about ballooning They have a special “ballondrom” (the great stadium for the balloons to take off) and the whole city decorated to look the part: — Saga is like a tourist mecca for all the ballooning lovers even the manhole covers have balloon images on While the festival events take place they open an additional railway station called Ballondrom They set mobile booths and ramps to make a station right there near the Ballondrom Kamianets-Podilskyi has every chance to become a Ukrainian version of Cappadocia — Cappadocia wins again with its peculiar landscape Yurii says that Kamianets is not the only place in Ukraine developing its hot air balloon business thanks to growing domestic tourism in the country: because it all stands on whether you have passengers or not Although tourism serves as the engine for the development of the hot air balloon industry this enthusiastic fuel can’t last forever: there are lots of new people graduating from Kyiv piloting school who can already fly with a licence there are an estimated 60 balloons and 50 pilots of the Ukraine Ballooning Federation Yurii is convinced that the Ukrainian ballooning business has a great future We can make it as long as there is enough encouragement in the hearts of fans: Involved in the preparation of the material 14 volunteers Project support: Fundacja Euromaidan-Warszawa Use of materials is only permitted upon providing the source: Ukrainer.net Дизайн — Артем Зубкевич Розробка — Deluxcode Ukrainians are increasingly combining traveling around the country with visits to historical sites Many majestic castles in Ukraine have played a role in Ukraine's history RBC-Ukraine tells about the best Ukrainian castles to see in summer The Kamianets-Podilskyi fortress in the Khmelnytskyi region is one of the most famous and popular among tourists The castle is located on the ledge of the Smotrytskyi Canyon on the island and it is connected to the city by the Castle Bridge The first mention of the castle was in a 14th-century charter although archaeological research points to an older history of the building - from the 11th-12th centuries Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle served as a defensive fortress and residence for various rulers Now the fortress is part of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Historical and Architectural National Reserve Various events are held there; before the war The castle complex has 11 towers with separate stories and exhibitions women visited him and gave him handkerchiefs He allegedly used them to tie a rope and escape from the dungeon Photo: Kamianets-Podilskyi Fortress (pixabay.com) The Black Tower has a wooden wheel that was used to extract water from a well It was carved into the rock to provide the city with water in case of a siege Another of the most beautiful castles in Ukraine is Palanok Castle in Mukachevo This is one of the oldest defensive structures which was built on a 68-meter-high mountain of volcanic origin before the 11th century Underground passages were built in the fortress where the inhabitants hid during the siege three terraces divide it into three levels - the Upper Palanok survived many sieges and was at the center of the Hungarian-Austrian confrontation The history of the castle also has its legends the owner of the castle was once the Transylvanian prince Zsigmond Bathory who was called the bloody countess for the murder of young girls there is a well inside the castle that was dug by a devil He was cheated out of the payment and since then the sounds of his fussing can be heard from the well the Palanok Castle houses a historical museum and tours of the former stronghold are available Khotyn Fortress is one of the most powerful defensive structures in Eastern Europe built in the 13th and 14th centuries on the site of a Rus settlement (10th-13th centuries) The castle is located on the right bank of the Dniester River in the south of Khotyn district It is one of the largest and most beautiful fortresses in Ukraine it was expanded and fortified by order of the Turkish Sultan Mohammed IV the famous fortification towers and bastions were built The Khotyn fortress belonged to many state formations the castle lost its importance as a military facility the castle was actively used during the filming of historical movies It acted as a medieval castle: La Rochelle the Khotyn Fortress State Historical and Architectural Reserve has been established Lutsk Castle is considered one of the largest It was built on the site of the wooden fortifications of the Kyivan Rus princes The Ipatiev Chronicle mentions the Lutsk fortress in 1085 The construction was started by the Lithuanian Prince Lubart The defense structure once consisted of two parts: Upper and Lower castles The construction of the Upper Castle began in the 14th century and was completed in the 15th century The Upper Castle is well preserved to this day The Lower Castle - the Okolnyi Castle - began to be reconstructed in brick in the early 16th century but only parts of the walls and one tower have survived the fortress lost its defensive significance the towers and walls were dismantled for building material the castle was renovated when Volyn was part of the Polish Republic the castle was called Lubart's Castle in documents Photo: Lutsk Castle (wikimedia.org/Valentyne Kovalov) you can climb the tall towers from where you can see other sights of the city The castle has interesting museums and dungeons Another famous castle in Zakarpattia is the Schönborn Palace in Zakarpattia (in the village of Karpaty The estate originated from a wooden hunting lodge in the Berehvar tract owned by Austrian aristocrats Then the palace was rebuilt into a castle in the Neo-Romantic style The palace was built on the astronomical principle Four towers at the corners symbolize the seasons There are 52 chimneys on the roof of the castle: the number of weeks in a year The building has 12 entrances and 365 windows One more window is bricked up in honor of the leap year The windows were decorated with stained glass windows on biblical themes Bas-reliefs on ancient themes are still preserved Photo: Schönborn Castle in Zakarpattia (wikimedia.org) the castle belonged to the Schönborn family and later the Soviet government opened a sanatorium there Read also about the top 10 best fortresses worth seeing in Ukraine These are castles that have been well preserved to this day the national team of Ukraine will be based in the town of Wiesbaden which serves as the capital of the Hesse federal state The largest city in this state is Frankfurt located just 30 km away from the administrative center Among the twin cities of Wiesbaden is our Kamianets-Podilskyi our team will reside and train at the local stadium the national team will have convenient access to all three cities hosting the group stage matches where the Ukrainian team will play their opening Euro match against Romania (June 17) The blue-yellows plan to arrive there two days before the game As for the next two cities of the group stage the distance is practically the same — about 200 kilometers The Ukrainian national team will begin preparations for the final tournament on May 30 in another German city — Nuremberg they will play a friendly match against the hosts of Euro 2024 they will play a friendly match against the local national team The final game before the pre-tournament training camp will be a meeting with the Moldovan national team on June 11 in Chisinau the national team will arrive at the permanent location for Euro 2024 Home page » Topics » Professions » Motoball Motoball is an exclusively European sport originating from France which has gained enormous popularity in Ukraine during Soviet Union times Motoball tournaments and several motoball teams have survived until today only on enthusiasm of players In Kamianets-Podilskyi motoball has already been existing for 52 years and with a lack of local teams’ success in other sports the Podillia motoball club has become famous in Ukraine during this time There is a separate motoball stadium that you can find only in Kamianets-Podilskyi A motoball match is played on a football field with slightly different marks: the field doesn’t have a central circle and the goalpost area has a semi-circle shape Asphalt and gravel are usually used as a field cover the asphalt is lightly sprinkled with sand The ball used for the sport is several times bigger than a football Each team has five players including a goalkeeper There is almost no difference between a motoball bike and a regular cross motorcycle The main difference lies in the control levers The motoball motorcycle is equipped with a duplicated rear-brake pedal on either side of the bike Since a motoball player uses one leg to control the ball the front wheel is armed with arches for moving the ball The front of the motorcycle is also equipped with “plows” that make it impossible for the ball to get under the motorcycle gear-shift levers are connected directly to the handlebar to control the motorcycle easier The oldest motoball player and the Kamianets-Podilskyi team captain but now he earns his living by driving a minibus Volodymyr’s love for football on wheels has only grown with age a former Soviet newspaper that today is a Russian sports daily there was an article about “a big match under the walls of an old fortress” It described the Kamianets fortress and the motoball The city was known only for the motoball team and the fortress Many people were coming to watch the games in 2008 and 2009 — back then the team was winning almost every match — Currently there is a rapid team rejuvenation Because other teams have only two older men Keep up with the training.” As for now I work as a minibus driver in Kamianets For the last seven to eight years I have tried every job Volodymyr is still being recognized by fans on the street With an advent of the Ukrainian independence — During Soviet times we received wage rates Volodymyr started playing motoball in 1968 His oldest and middle brothers are football players I was supposed to be taken to study at the Dynamo School (Kyiv) we don’t want the third one.” Well… And then I retrained to play motoball Back then there was an all-union program that in every way encouraged creation of motoball teams and it so happened that many of his friends were involved with motocross And at 17 years old I was summoned to the Poltava military commissariat because my brother had been already playing on a football team of Poltava we became the champions of the USSR and won the USSR cup in 1973 And then in 1979 I was invited to come here Motoball has been played in Kamianets since 1966 Volodymyr recalls that at that time there was such a program that allowed for nearly each city to have a motoball team: motorcycles were brought and teams were created A special stadium for this kind of sport was built in 1982 Volodymyr tells us that he and his friends were levelling breakstone there The first game of the Kamianets team in the Premier League took place in 1982 on the pedagogical institute’s stadium In 1998 and in 2000 the German team Tornado from the town of Kierspe visited Kamianets-Podilskyi Volodymyr remembers that tournament pretty well — the champions of Germany against the champions of Ukraine Silver and bronze winners are four teams together Now you can compare — me driving a minibus Volodymyr says that in the 70s and 80s he had a lot of offers to go to Moscow and to Riga; people from the Baltic countries were interested in him he admits that nothing attracted him outside of Ukraine and trying to find time to practice with boys In Kamianets there has been a motoball team since 1966 a group of young players from this team became the champions of Ukraine among junior teams the boys from the team are growing professionally Volodymyr thinks that they need to train more that those who only started learning need to “catch the course,” to catch up with those who have played for a long time: — We invited two boys from Stavropol Krai and two from Voznesensk And then in 1981 with that team composition we We played with Volgograd here on the grass Besides this game we had 12 goals per game and more At that time I became the best scorer of the USSR Premier League Volodymyr says that he has had a lot of injuries during these 45 years that he has played motoball — his ligaments were damaged And during the Europe championship in Belarus he got hit in his head with a ball He says the ball flew straight to his head from under a motorcycle — he didn’t have time to react who at that time was sitting in the stands — Then for two days I was walking around thinking a motorcycle for motoball is smaller and narrower it can be used for driving straight through a rugged terrain a motorcycle piston has to be replaced right away as a nikasil coating wears off he has never been a motoballer before this His father took him once to watch games — in the 80s it was like matches of the Dynamo football club in Kyiv with whole families coming to watch That’s when Pavlo became interested in motoball but it didn’t work for him — he was in the army Since then he has been working with the team during Soviet times when we were getting the motorcycles in Kyiv were remaking and rewelding motorcycle chassis we were giving to others — an electric factory was working here at that time Volodymyr says that they had to remake motorcycle often by themselves: At that time we had to completely disassemble the frame and recut and reweld the plows They are also a protection for the motorcycle to hold it together as it is constantly in a collision Currently the Kamianets team has German motorcycles They are old and have to be repaid quite often: there was a production of “Kovrovets” from the town of Kovrov It was such a huge production that you could take as many as you liked you can’t compare those motorcycles to these that we have now — it’s like night and day Just you’ll have to change a piston and that’s all Pavlo shows us the workshop and says that they repair motorcycles in it The motorcycles are stored here in the winter since they have a liquid-cooled engine — Here you can see one of the engines being disassembled The motorcycle should be around 1.5 times older and we’ve been told that two more motorcycles will be enough In the past a motoball match lasted four periods of 20 minutes each Pavlo recalls that it all started in the 60s — back then goalkeepers stood with motorcycles: in order to save fuel a game lasts four periods in Ukraine In Europe they play three periods of 20 minutes each That’s probably because our Ukrainian rules are not adapted to European ones four periods of 20 minutes each were the best: there was enough time to match points or even to reach high scores Five minutes is a significant difference — you can score three goals during this time: — There is no such thing as a certain number of people And if a motorcycle is broken — a player raises a hand A substitute is performed only through the field center extra players were standing on a central line outside the field in order to get in immediately eight motorcycles require 40 liters of petrol says that the Podillia motoball club was formed by more than 50 people those who remained on the team approached him asking for help Serhiy indeed helped them: a charitable foundation which helps boarding schools in Podillia (approximately 15 schools and 2500 children) started to bring children to the matches for free they started to support motoball financially The man thinks that it is the pride and glory of Kamianets you should have seen one of the first motorcycles that belonged to the first team ever established here And that’s how we started our contribution as we are talking about hundreds of thousands of hryvnias The motorcycles used today are the new ones that we purchased for the team we ordered Ancer team wear from the United States in Ukrainian patriotic colours turns out that in 2014 we already played here the motoball Ukrainian Cup authorities didn’t help them a lot — they gave 10 to 20 thousand hryvnias for a year —  But at this moment it is the only team on the territory of Western Ukraine There are no teams on the territory of seven regions And we think that patriotism can no longer be bought by money they work for free to restore the team and to return to glory that they had before Serhiy says that they established the Kamianets-Podilskyi federation of motoball which is part of the Ukrainian Federation of motoball and comes to Kamianets for work as the foundation works there and it’s easier to interact in such a way this type of sport requires equity investments and takes a lot of time There were two motoball leagues in the Soviet Union — the Kamianets team played in the Premier League since 1982 The highest accomplishment was fifth place position in the tournament the team for six years was the champion of Ukraine Everyone wants to score an extra goal against Podillia Even the glory of grandfathers does not allow descendants to rest For the last few years the Kamianets team hasn’t been below fifth place — it is always in the first half of the tournament table But every year someone leaves and someone new comes The coach says that they visit educational institutions From potential players one needs only desire Since then there have been practically no breaks — constantly someone has been engaged in motoball Starting from 2007 we haven’t played only for one year What’s for sure is the team was not playing in the championship of Ukraine In 2013 this team that we have now started its recovery with support from the foundation This year none of the Kamianets motoballers got into the national team of Ukraine the team shows by its own example that the main thing is not to give up and to do what you love In this vlog we will get to Kamianets-Podilskyi watch the hot air balloons flying over the fortress see what’s going on inside the Kamianets-Podilskyi castle visit Otrokiv and the “sadyba” (homestead) of Stsybor-Markhotskyi Involved in the preparation of the material 13 volunteers Lawyers of the CSO “Association of Lawyers of Kamianets-Podilskyi” drafted the legal documents for the territorial defense of their community This success story is interesting because there is still no clear legal regulation in Ukraine for the functioning of voluntary defense associations by developing policies and procedures for them was able to regulate the work of the local center of territorial defense This can be an example to follow for other Ukrainian communities The first challenges faced by the Voluntary Formation № 2 of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Territorial Community are the lack of regulation of both the procedures for the legalization of the formation and the regulation of its activities Thus, on April 1, 2022, amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On the Basis of National Resistance” were voted on which stipulate that people can join volunteer formations at their registered place of residence there was no criterion for selection at the place of registration in this law quite a few volunteers live and work in the city and are registered in neighboring rural communities Students are registered in dormitories at the location of educational institutions Not to mention people who have fled with their families from areas of active hostilities the lawyers of the Association have established a system of document management and the system of internal relations and communication – and all this taking into account the peculiarities dictated by the specifics of the tasks of formation during martial law If you have notices an error on the web-site Print and place the Network's poster on a notice board in your entrance hall Become a volunteer and assist others in finding problem solutions 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for co-organizing the event and participating We invite you to the next talks," he added Tolstykhin Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Rivne Region, on the territory of the Dubensk community, the action "For a clean environment" was held, during which municipal workers and 3,000 residents cleaned about 40 unauthorized garbage dumps. activists collected 3.5 tons of garbage from the shores of the tourist Bakota They held the eco-action "Clean up the shores of the Bakot Bay" four times Local government and business joined the action but also become a powerful energy producer Strict measures will be taken to prevent violators from littering the coastal zone with impunity in the future Liquidation of landfills belongs to the powers of local authorities The use of materials posted on the EcoPolicy media platform is permitted only if the link to the EcoPolicy is provided and for online publications - the placement of a direct hyperlink to the page where the original material is posted The editors may not share the point of view stated in the author's material The advertiser is responsible for the accuracy of information published in promotional materials DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND SYSTEM ENGINEERING NAMES MYKHAILA SAMOKISHA Scientific and pedagogical workers                        Junior service staff the Department of Agricultural Engineering and System Engineering was created by merging the two departments "Machine Use in the Agricultural Industry" and "Agricultural Machinery and Mechanized Technologies" by the decision of the academic council of the university the department was named after Mykhailo SAMOKISH on the 90th anniversary of his birth The head of the department is Doctor of Philosophy in the field of technical sciences Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine Anatoly RUD The Department of Agricultural Engineering and Systems Engineering named after Mykhailo Samokysh teaches students of higher education in the following specialties: 208 – Agricultural Engineering 281 – Public Management and Administration the department has all the methodological support and a well-equipped diagnostic laboratory with diagnostic running drums for testing cars a diagnostic stand for determining the traction properties of tractors a diagnostic installation and a motor tester On the territory of the department there are: a pavilion of agricultural machines and mechanized technologies an agricultural machinery maintenance point a laboratory for the use and maintenance of agricultural machinery named after D.F a laboratory for technical maintenance and diagnostics of tractors and cars a methodological office and an office for diploma and course design Educational and methodical literature is published for which certificates of copyright registration for the work have been obtained the textbook "Machines and equipment in animal husbandry" was published and in 2022 - the textbook "Maintenance of machines and equipment" the textbook "Operation of machines and equipment" was prepared for publication Ocheretenko is the founder of Podilsk State Agrarian and Technical University; Podlesny Oleksynets Encyclopedia of the village; Kamianets-Podilskyi city organization of veterans There are five laboratories in the pavilion of agricultural machines and mechanized technologies in particular: the laboratory of tillage machines and tools the laboratory of sowing and planting machines the laboratory of machines for harvesting agricultural crops the laboratory of machines for primary processing of crops the laboratory of mechanization and electrification of agricultural production scientific and pedagogical staff of the department use technical means: multimedia equipment (projector with a personal computer and a screen) Innovative methods of conducting classes using 3D technologies are being widely introduced In the laboratory of technical maintenance and diagnostics of agricultural machinery unique equipment is installed for determining the technical condition of aggregates and nodes by a non-disassemble method for a complete complex of diagnostics of automobile gasoline engines the determination of power and fuel economy indicators without external loading devices is included the training laboratory "Machines for preparing and distributing fodder" is equipped; laboratory "Modern and promising technology of the enterprise "Elworthy" building 4; laboratory "Milking equipment and primary processing of milk named after V.D Laboratory of machinesfor the preparation and distribution of fodder While studying at the department of agricultural engineering and systems engineering named after Mykhailo SAMOKISH students of higher education have the opportunity to acquire the profession of mechanical engineer agronomist and various working professions In order to improve the educational process industrial practices of higher education students as well as professional development in the form of internships of scientific and pedagogical employees of the department are held Kamyanka Kamyanets-Podilskyi District; "Kolos VS" corporation of Borshchiv district Ternopil region; LLC "Adamivka Agro" of Khmelnytskyi district of Khmelnytskyi region; "VITAGRO" group of companies of the Kamianets-Podilskyi and Khmelnytskyi districts of Khmelnytskyi region; "Obolon-Agro" LLC village Chemerivtsi of Khmelnytskyi region; open joint-stock company Horodotsk enterprise "Agrochem" of Khmelnytskyi region Laboratory of modern and promising agricultural machinery of "Elworthy" enterprises The research work of the Department of Agricultural Engineering and System Engineering named after Mykhailo Samokysh is carried out on topics: RUD                                       – Research of soil hardness and development of tillage machines for  Anatoly Volodymyrovych          their loosening – Theory and methods of training future agricultural specialists of non-engineering specialties in the mechanization electrification and automation of agricultural production KOTOV                                 – Justification of the scientific basis of the intensification of heat and Boris Ivanovych                          mass exchange processes during drying of plants HRUSHETSKYI                   – Mechanical and technological basics of improving the digging- Serhiy Mykolayovych                 separating working bodies of machines for harvesting root vegetables PAVELCHUK                       – Development and improvement of working bodies of sowing and Yury Fedorovych                        planting machines KORCHAK                           – Development of energy-saving technologies and machines for soil  Mykola Mykolayovych              cultivation scientific articles are published in the Skopus and Web of seins scientometric databases as well as in professional and foreign publications; applications for obtaining patents are drawn up; reports are prepared for international Scientists of the Department of Agricultural Engineering and System Engineering named after Mykhailo SAMOKISH conduct farm contracting work and are involved in providing consulting services to farms of various types of agricultural formations under the leadership of Professor Anatoliy RUDY farm contract work was conducted on the study of soil compaction on the lands of the corporation "Kolos-VS" of the Borshchyv district of the Ternopil region and the private enterprise "Agrarian Company 2004" of the Khmelnytskyi district of the Khmelnytskyi region recommendations on soil loosening were developed and handed over to the customer with substantiation of the economic and ecological effectiveness of the implementation of these measures Farm contract work on the study of soil compaction on the lands of the private enterprise "Agrarian Company 2004" of the Khmelnytskyi district of the Khmelnytsky region continues successfully The scientific leader of the topic is professor Honored Education Worker of Ukraine Anatoly RUDY The amount of financing is 50,000 hryvnias A contract was concluded for soil density studies at the Romaniv Agro farm in the Khmelnytskyi district of the Khmelnytsky region for the amount of 25,000 hryvnias the department annually provides consulting services to farms of various types of agricultural formations in the amount of 30,000 hryvnias Contacts Address of the Department of Agricultural Engineering and System Engineering named after Mykhailo SAMOKISH: Khmelnytskyi region