Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker '#' : location.hash;window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery = location.search === '' && location.href.slice(0 location.href.length - window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash.length).indexOf('?') !== -1 '?' : location.search;if (window.history && window.history.replaceState) {var ogU = location.pathname + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash;history.replaceState(null "\/celebrating-famous-jews-from-ukraine-ben-stiller\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=kZE4ddnuN1CIsI9c9NGtwM3xrol.I5PEh5w7wlFhtKI-1746492100-1.0.1.1-zTFXRTsT42qmz1k8HQFac6UegeRZRWSYI7iVEicLacA" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null ogU);}}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(cpo);}()); Zaborona’s photo editor Pavlo Bishko continues his archival searches in Galicia (you can read about them here and here) he came across places that preserve the memory of two bygone eras — hairdressing salons in Lviv and Khodoriv reminiscent of the Soviet and Austro-Hungarian empires — and tells us what these time machines look like in 2022.  Volodymyr Zayats has been working in the hairdressing salon in Khodoriv since 1984 He learned the skills of a hairdresser in the army He started with the haircuts of ordinary soldiers then he was entrusted with the service of officers After completing military service in Moscow He came to a barbershop on Shevchenko Street Volodymyr was so scared that he hid behind the curtain of the back room There are only three chairs in the barbershop teaching Volodymyr to cut hair — in the army he cut the military’s hair “under zero” or “under three mm” and he had to learn more complicated techniques in Khodoriv and now the chair is empty: no one works near it there are cards with the name and surname of the hairdresser glued with tape there is a card with the inscription “You are served by Mr For 38 years of work from Monday to Saturday the hairdresser from Khodoriv has gained a lot of regular customers a client with the surname Vedmid (‘a bear’ in English) came to Mr Zayats (‘a hare’ in English) on a bike “Ukraine” He has been getting his hair cut here for about 20 years Volodymyr says in the manner of a Soviet joke that “now the hare will cut the bear’s hair” Other clients waiting for their turn in the corner upholstered with wooden panels of the early XX century One customer says that everyone who goes to Mr Volodymyr says among themselves that they are going “to the hare.” Volodymyr tells his regular customers strange stories A film photo shows where healthy and sick places in the body are Volodymyr’s father was brought her photo the father said that the girl was alive (later it turned out that she ran away from home) Zaborona is not the first to take an interest in the old barbershop Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi visited the barbershop with his film crew He was documenting a trip to Galicia and became interested in the vintage interior of the hair salon a hairdressing salon was opened in the building the facade and interior of the hair salon have not changed except for a modern electric meter and waiting chairs Clients ask Zayats not to change anything in the interior of the institution and not to arrange renovation On Lviv’s Zelena Street there is also a hairdresser’s called “Perukarnya” (“Hairdresser’s”) Maria has been working here for 20 years (at the request of the heroine Maria says that she mostly works because her pension is not enough to live on The Lviv hairdresser’s is a bit smaller than the one in Khodoriv — there are only two chairs Maria’s sister has been working near the next chair for 40 years they hardly ever meet at work: when Maria’s shift ends The hair salon is a mix of low-quality Soviet furniture and kitschy plastic interior decoration of the early 2000s The old TV set of Lviv brand “Electron” has been standing in the corner for decades It plays a decorative role — the TV antenna has long been disconnected; it seems that in the 1990s it played songs from the TV hit parade “Territory A” — the most famous hotbed of Ukrainian music on television The hair salon is located just a 10-minute walk from the city center in an old building from 1910 built in the late Austro-Hungarian Secession style but is due to close in about a month: the attractive business premises have a new owner Maria says that she will not be able to work in a barbershop or a modern hairdresser’s because of her age she needs the right conditions and a separate room who has been getting his hair cut here for over 10 years The man is 81 years old — he works in the laboratory of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv when he learned about the closure of the barbershop Nostalgia either for youth or for childhood which has the last chance for memory and now will remain only in the photo Support Zaborona on Patreon so we can produce even more interesting stories unbiased journalism on socially important topics and aim to deliver reliable and transparent information to our readers Subscribe to Zaborona to get access to high-quality and vivid stories Choose how you prefer to support Zaborona so the editorial team can continue to produce content for you ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase 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.