MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine

As the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear disaster reaches its 37th anniversary, HURI’s MAPA team continues to expand its interactive resource on the explosion and its aftermath. On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet...

Thirty-five years after an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant unleashed a devastating amount of radioactive material, research on the disaster and its consequences continues to develop. As part of this ongoing work, the MAPA: Digital Atlas of...

The new MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine website offers a fresh new look as well as easier navigation to explore the program's resources, tools, and analysis. New and improved website; same URL and powerful resources It's easier than ever to get started...

From public discourse to political statements, people discussing Ukraine often talk about the East and the West. Indeed, there is a widespread belief that Ukraine has sharp regional differences, that the country is split in two along the lines of language...

Viktoriya Sereda, HURI MAPA Project Research Fellow, describes the research she shared in her Seminar in Ukrainian Studies presentation, which was held on January 30, 2017. The period prior to the Euromaidan can be characterized by the Yanukovych...

Поява персональних комп'ютерів та інтернету докорінно змінила життя сучасної людини. Сьогодні пізнання світу неможливе без застосування найновіших досягнень науки й техніки та без використання сучасних систем зв'язку. Глобалізація не лише дозволяє, але й...

MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine is an interactive mapping tool that enables researchers to display and analyze data based on geographical location. By presenting this information on a map, researchers can assess how location and combinations of other...

The “language issue” has deep historical roots in Ukraine, from suppression of Ukrainian during the Russian empire to Soviet policy and beyond. That tumultuous past is explored in depth in The Battle for Ukrainian (as we celebrated during our recent book...

«МАПА» – або «Цифровий атлас України» є пріоритетним проектом, над яким зараз працює Український науковий інститут Гарвардського університету. Під керівництвом директора Інституту професора Сергія Плохія, якому належить ідея цього унікального міжнародного...

After working on the MAPA’s Revolution of Dignity in the 2016-2017 academic year, the MAPA team returned to the Great Famine project (Holodomor) for the Spring 2018 term. The previous stage of the Famine project had already produced important insights...