Podcast appearances and mentions of mike buryk

Ukrainian-British chef and cookbook author Olia Hercules discusses her family background and career and how she became a cooking celebrity in the UK. https://oliahercules.com/ Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

Ukraine Global Scholars is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization founded to help Ukrainian students get an education in the world's best colleges and universities. Yuliya Sychikova, CEO and co-founder, talks about why the program was established and how it works. Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

A Fall 2017 interview with Bruce Romanchak, who is an administrator with the Facebook Lemko Ancestry and DNA Group. He discusses how the group was founded, what it does and how DNA can be used to find distant Lemko cousins. https://www.facebook.com/groups/LemkoAncestryandDNA/ Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

Nick Rozar is a 26-year-old Ukrainian-American from Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder and owner of Hetmans, a company that produces wearable art. His wooden sunglass frames are handmade by Hutsul carvers in the Carpathian Mountains. Nick talks about his company and products and future plans. http://www.hetmans.com/ Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

An October 2017 interview with Dr. Mykola Bevz, chairman of the Department of Restoration of Architectural and Artistic Heritage at the Lviv Polytechnic National University in Lviv, Ukraine. He discusses efforts to preserve Ukrainian wooden churches in Ukraine and Poland. The discussion includes mention of the UNESCO World Heritage List, which includes 16 tserkvas in the Carpathian region. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1424 Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

The microbrewery Pravda Beer Theatre (http://www.pravda.beer/en/) was established by Yuri Zastavny in Lviv, Ukraine, in December 2014. It is now owned by the Fest company (http://www.fest.lviv.ua/en/) whose partners are Andriy Khudo, Yurko Nazaruk and Dmytro Gerasimov. The holding company is well known for its innovative local ventures including restaurants, food convenience stores, a bakery, a publishing house and public events among others. Yuri Zastavny talks about how the craft brewery was started, its award-winning beers and his plans for the future. Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for any additional information. Copyright (c) 2017-2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hannukah in Ukraine • Feature interview: Mike Buryk, host of two new podcasts about Ukrainian tech startups and Ukrainian culture & genealogy • Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian music!This hour is in English. Your host: Pawlina.Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio airs live in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. In English: 11am-12pm with Pawlina. In Ukrainian 12-1pm with Oksana Poberezhnyk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Hannukah in Ukraine • Feature interview: Mike Buryk, host of two new podcasts about Ukrainian tech startups and Ukrainian culture & genealogy • Proverb of the Week • Local community events • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian music!Join me - Pawlina - for Nash Holos Vancouver every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nash Holos (Our Voice) is a Ukrainian-Canadian radio program broadcast twice weekly in English with a Ukrainian-language segment on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It also airs in international syndication to over 20 countries. Its host and producer is Paulette (Pawlina) MacQuarrie. In this interview she talks about the how the program started, some of its special segments and offers her insight on the Ukrainian-Canadian community. You can find the program online at: https://www.nashholos.com/ . Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2017 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

Mariana Oleskiv, director of the Lviv Tourism Development Center, talks about some of the attractions in this old European city. For more information about travel and tourism in Lviv, go here. http://lviv.travel/en/index Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2017 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

An August 11, 2017 interview with Matej Silecky, director and producer at Kitsune Tale Productions. He is producing a documentary film called, "Baba Babee Skazala" (Grandmother Told Grandmother). It is the story of post-World-War-II Ukrainian emigres to the U.S. who were displaced persons in Europe. www.babababeeskazala.com Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for any additional information. Copyright (c) 2017 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

John Pihach, a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, is the author of the well-known Ukrainian genealogy classic, "Ukrainian Genealogy: a Beginner's Guide" (CIUS, 2007). He was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. He received a B. Sc. degree in physics from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), studied studio fine arts at the Vancouver Community College and spent many years wandering about Asia and Europe, including visiting Ukraine a dozen times. John has done research in the archives in Ukraine, Poland and Vienna and published twelve articles on Galician genealogy. He was the library chairperson for the East European Genealogical Society for a decade and a member since its founding. His new book, "Mudeater: An American Buffalo Hunter and the Surrender of Louis Riel", was published in 2017. Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2017 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

Nick Bilogorskiy is a Silicon Valley Ukrainian tech entrepreneur, cyber security expert and angel investor. He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, but emigrated to Vancouver, Canada, in 1996. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing science and philosophy from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification. In 2006, he headed to San Francisco for a cyber security job and has been here ever since. Nick is a founding team member at Cyphort and is responsible for cyber threat operations at the company. He was very active in the local Ukrainian community during the 2013-2014 Ukraine Euromaidan events that resulted in the ouster of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. In March 2014 He co-founded Nova Ukraine, a non-profit dedicated to humanitarian causes and efforts to help Ukraine become a prosperous and solidly democratic nation. Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for additional information. Copyright (c) 2017 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

Ron Kramer's Lemko Ukrainian-American family has deep roots in the Primrose/Minersville, Pa., area. His grandfather Wasyl Kramar arrived in the Anthracite region of eastern Pennsylvania coming from the Lemko region of Austria-Hungary, now southeast Poland, in 1897. Ron talks about his family roots, the local Lemko Ukrainian-American community and Ukrainian Seminary Day. Ukrainian Day is an annual event that began in the Anthracite coal region in 1933 and is now a fund-raiser for the South Anthracite Deanery of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia. It is a major homecoming for Ukrainians with family from the area. It will take place this year on Sunday, July 30th, in Primrose, Pa. Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for any additional information. Copyright (c) 2017 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

A 7/4/17 interview with Mark Howansky, who is the current president of the Lemko Ukrainian-American organization OOL (Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna). He discusses his family history, how and why OOL was established in the 1930's in the U.S. and the importance of preserving Lemko Ukrainian culture worldwide. Mark's photo at the 2016 Lemko Vatra in Zhdynia, Poland, was taken by Sofia Fedyna, the Lemko-Ukrainian singer and head of the SFULO organization. Please contact Mike Buryk at michael.buryk@verizon.net for any additional information. Copyright (c) 2017 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved