Helping Oleksandr Hlukhov, keeper of the Murashko Estate in Kyiv.

In the center of Kyiv, on Mala Zhytomyrska Street, stands the Murashko Estate - a landmark connected with the artist Oleksandr Murashko. Its last resident is Oleksandr Dmytrovych Hlukhov, a mathematician and associate professor at the National Aviation University. Together with his wife and daughter, he once saved an entire block of landmarks of national importance from being demolished for a shopping center.

There has been no heating in the house since 2007. And in the fall of 2020, in the middle of a pandemic and the cold season, his gas and water were cut off too. Yulia Nikitina wrote about it on social media.

Yaroslav Yemelianenko went to see him right away. He brought water, a gas stove and a fire extinguisher and arranged a supply of replaceable gas cylinders. The next day a picket was held outside the estate. We asked the city authorities to give Oleksandr Dmytrovych decent housing in the center, not on the outskirts.

Since then we have helped him constantly. When the gas runs out, Oleksandr Dmytrovych calls Yaroslav. His whole winter depends on these cylinders: a gas stove and a gas heater. Recently they went to the gas station together, hauled the cylinders together and talked for a long time on the way.

This is not Chornobyl. But the story is the same: a person holds on to a place that would disappear without them.