KHARKIV RESIDENT’S STORIES: BEFORE AND AFTER 24 OF FEBRUARY 2022

This article focuses on the documentary evidence of Kharkiv residents collected as part of the activities of the Kharkiv Young NGO, which preserves the cultural heritage of Kharkiv and documents, stores, and publishes oral history testimonies about various pages of history.Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, about 100 stories have been collected in which Kharkiv residents share their stories and life experiences.An important point in the publication of documentary witnesses to the war is the posting of some of the records on the German educational portal Copernico.This text analyzes the issues related to the life of Kharkiv residents in the first months of the full-scale invasion, focusing on the changes that narrators highlighted in everyday life and worldview.The article pays special attention to the choice of words and definitions to describe everyday life and the sudden changes in life after February 24, 2022.Words such as "normal", "ordinary life", "nothing special" have changed, life has become difficult to describe and has become characterized exclusively by words: "everything has changed", 'everything has changed radically'.Everyday practices, observations, and self-reflection of Kharkiv residents became the focus of our attention.Special attention in the article is paid to the choice of words and definitions to describe everyday life, sudden changes in life after February 24, 2022.Words such as "normal", "ordinary life", "nothing special" have changed, life is difficult to describe and has become characterized exclusively by words: "everything has changed", 'everything has changed drastically'.Everyday practices, observations, and self-reflection of Kharkiv residents became the focus of our attention.