PHOTO FACT

Perhaps not every average Russian knows that in many ways the “great and mighty,” as Ivan Turgenev put it, Russian language owes its revision to a Ukrainian native. However, Luhansk residents remember quite well that the author of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language Volodymyr Dahl, a.k.a. Kodak Luhansk (the Cossack of Luhansk) is their fellow countryman. The bust of the renowned lexicographer, ethnographer, and writer designed by Luhansk-based sculptor Mykola Mozhayev (in the photo) will be erected in Yalta, next to the Crimean branch of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University.