Once upon a time, life was in full swing in the village of Ivkivtsi in

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Now finding a place where there are people has become a real quest.

In order to revive the village, Nazar Lavrinenko offers empty houses to the displaced people free of charge.

Although the village does not have gas, every householder has a stove and electricity, and water from a well.

There are schools and kindergartens in nearby settlements.

What people are encouraged to come to the village, in the material of

Nazar Lavrinenko shows the TSN house.

Once a grandmother lived in the house.

Now he wants to let immigrants into the two-room house.

You will have to cook in the oven or on a cast-iron stove, and heat with firewood, because the village is not gasified.

The well is located 20 meters away.

There is light in the house.

There is also a summer kitchen, a shed and a cellar on the bypass.

Among the offers is also a hostel in the premises of a former kindergarten.

There are three large rooms where three families can live separately.

Before the full-scale war, archaeological expeditions stopped there.

Nazar is very much looking forward to the immigrants.

It hurts him that his native, once flourishing village of Ivkivtsi is now dying out.

"The village is very large. Its area from Yarkiv to Lisovivka is 12 kilometers. In the other direction - nine kilometers. It is larger from house to house than the regional center of Cherkasy," says a resident of Ivkivtsi. 

Currently, less than two hundred people live in the settlement.

Life began to decline in the 60s, when the village was deemed unpromising.

Young people began to leave en masse, because there is trouble with work.

However, even in Ivkivtsi, he says, you can make money.

For example, relatives of Nazar's wife Tetyana have a business in the village - they grow jackrabbits.

For example, Oleksa Nef moved to the village from Cherkasy.

He keeps the farm for himself, as well as poultry for sale.

"An organic product that is grown on a free range. The bird lives and eats without chemicals," the man said.

However, he says that he will have to work a lot.

Nazar's wife Tetyana hopes that this will not scare away the immigrants.

She has her own interest in them coming: children will appear - friends for her children. 

However, there is no school or kindergarten in Ivkivtsi.

Several local children are taken by bus to neighboring villages.

"We have two institutions of secondary general education in our community, in which 293 students study. There are 54 children in kindergartens," said the head of the department of education, health care, culture, youth and sports of the Medvediv village council, Dyudmyla Gorban.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 44 displaced children have already appeared in the community from nine villages.

They are mostly from the east and south.

However, there is even a family from Buchi.

It is noteworthy that people choose communities with at least some infrastructure.

On the other hand, in almost empty Ivkivtsi, it is not that there is no school or kindergarten, but even the store is closed - the products are delivered by a car dealership.

That is why the settlers bypass this village.

Instead, Nazar is very sorry.

Like, it's actually good here.

Children, for example, will be able to play in its tourist complex.

There is also a man-made museum on the bypass.

Opposite - a mountain.

According to him, archaeologists often visited here.

Locals believe that the mountain hides many secrets and has considerable historical significance.

"We prove that this is one of the likely places of reburial of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi himself," he adds.

Nazar hopes that the beauty of the village will finally attract people who will breathe new life into his native Ivkivka.

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