Stories of the unbreakable. Anise

30 October 2024 year in the Chernihiv regional historical museum named after. VV. Tarnovsky, a museum meeting "History of the indomitable. Anisiv". Volodymyr Ignatenko, the headman of the Anisiv district, was invited to it, Nataliya Ignatenko, director of the Anisiv Lyceum, Maryna Zvonnyk, head of the Anisiv Center of Culture, head of the NGO "Northern Gorlitsa" Kateryna Avdeyenko, volunteer Valentina Prokhorenko.

Anisiv is a village, about the existence of which, definitely, everyone knows. A village near Chernigov, 20 km, and in a straight line, through the meadow - 7 – 8 km. У березні 2022 year about this village was not only heard, and many, even among those present in the hall, had to look for ways of salvation, which just passed through Anisiv. This path was called "the road of life". When there were fierce battles near the city, the enemy occupied the settlements of the surrounding communities, the only road ran through Anisiv, which connected the city with unoccupied territories. Everything necessary for military needs was delivered along this road, volunteers carried humanitarian aid, and the same volunteers took people out of the city. Endless convoys of cars moved through the village, buses with people, who dared to leave the city. The road is full of deadly dangers, often accompanied by explosions led to the village, and then to Kulikivka, Kyiv and further throughout Ukraine. But it was important to overcome this short distance in 20 km. On sorry, happened, that lives were lost on it from enemy debris and mines.

Initially, transport from Chernihiv moved along the bridge over the Desna, along the track through Kolychivka to Nizhyn. However,, through shelling, and then the battles in Kolychivka, occupation of Lukashivka soon the road ran through the field. Often on the road, people walked with suitcases under fire, backpacks, children in strollers. Through the off-road, those carriages sometimes left the broken road right in the field. It was a really scary sight. When the "refugees" reached the village, there, local residents provided them with assistance, and then the volunteer buses took them away.

In addition to the "road of life", Anisiv became an outpost. Ukrainian heavy equipment worked under the village and on its territory. The defense of the city was led by units 1 separate tank Siver brigade from positions, who were near the village. On sorry, people died in the village due to powerful enemy shelling, houses were destroyed, the farm was destroyed by aerial bombs.

About all the stormy events of February-March 2022 year, which took place in the village, the invited guests mentioned. Their emotional stories did not leave anyone present indifferent.

Today is about terrible events, that took place in the village during the active phase of hostilities in Chernihiv Oblast is evidenced by a small chapel on the "road of life", erected on the initiative and at the expense of the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk. Ruslan Martsynkiv delivered humanitarian aid to Chernihiv, near Anisovo came under fire and was wounded. Влітку 2022 year, a chapel was erected at the entrance to the village above the road as a sign of gratitude to God for the saved life. Moreover, not yet rebuilt destroyed houses remind of those terrible events, modular houses in the yard and fences thickly cut with debris from cluster charges.

Residents of Anisov do not just live, heal wounds, and creatively and proactively participate in the development of their village. So the guests talked about the present: how the life of the peasants is restored; about their tremendous volunteer work; about communications in the military and assistance to them; about the state and contribution of the local lyceum to the development of its community and beyond.

They also visited the event: Serhiy Kramarenko, Acting Head of the Chernihiv District State Administration, мешканці Чернігова, ЗМІ.

Svitlana Zemlyanska, senior researcher