The Green Wedge: how Ukrainians settled the Far East (10.04.2022)
A street dialogue between Vitalii Dribnytsia and a Russian interlocutor, in which the conversation turns to the Green Wedge — the lands of Transbaikalia and the Far East, massively settled by Ukrainians in the early 20th century under the Stolypin agrarian reform (from 1906) — and the Grey Wedge — the Orenburg region and northern Kazakhstan. Dribnytsia mentions Ivan Bahrianyi’s novel, set on the Green Wedge. Only the beginning of the video concerns this theme; the rest is a separate argument about 2014. Used in the article on the colonial nature of Russia, for the section on the Ukrainian Green Wedge as the flip side of imperial colonization.
Key moments
- 00:45 Transbaikalia was called the Green Wedge — settled by Ukrainians in the early 20th century under the Stolypin agrarian reform
- 01:04 Orenburg Oblast and northern Kazakhstan — the Grey Wedge; Transbaikalia and the Far East — the Green Wedge
- 01:29 Ukrainians resettled there precisely during the times of the Russian Empire — from 1906, under the Stolypin reform
- 02:07 The writer Ivan Bahrianyi — a novel set on the Green Wedge in Transbaikalia (about the Soviet period)