Telegram Archive of the War

You can read more about the project here: [Telegram Archive of the War].

The full report on the two years of the initiative's work is available via the link: [Two year project report].

THE PROJECT TEAM

All participants in this archival project, except for the staff of the Center for Urban History, come from the previously occupied territories or were forced to leave their homes with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. Their professional backgrounds come from historical disciplines, journalism, and media communications. For security reasons, we have decided not to tell you more about them for now.

Project curator: Taras Nazaruk, archive coordinator, head of digital history projects at the Center for Urban History, doctoral student at FernUniversität in Hagen.

• Oksana Avramenko is a historian and graphic designer. Her participation in the archive began with the creation of a selection of channels and chats from the temporarily occupied Crimea. Later, her interests focused on socially vulnerable categories of the population (IDPs, refugees) and human rights protection during the war.
• Anna Rubanska is a journalist. Her areas of interest include Ukrainian refugees abroad, media, marketing, channels and chats of military units as a means of conducting information warfare.
• Dmytro Serbulov is a historian who started his cooperation with the archive by creating a collection of chats and channels from the south of Ukraine, but later expanded his interests to other topics (religion, ecology, animals).

Participated in archiving at the early stages:

• Roksolyana Holovata is a historian, editor of the Interactive Lviv project at the Center for Urban History, and a graduate student at the Ukrainian Catholic University and the University of Wroclaw. She has been involved in archiving some Telegram channels and websites.
• Oleksandr Kud' is a journalist, writer, and musician. He started working with the Archive in March 2022, but later mobilized to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He contributed to the formation of collections of chats from Kharkiv region and propaganda channels for the audience of Southern Ukraine.
• Karina Lazaruk is a graphic designer and researcher. She joined the archive in March 2022 and was engaged in archiving Russian propaganda and disinformation. Her participation in the archive grew into cooperation with scholars from UvA and INC, and the results of the collaboration were cited in Politico and published in Theory on Demand #44.
• Serhii Pakhomenko is a historian, associate professor of international relations and foreign policy at Mariupol State University. During his fellowship at the Center for Urban History in May-September 2022, he archived channels and chats about Mariupol.

PARTNERS AND SUPPORT