A platform about Ukrainian literature
A platform about Ukrainian literature: quotes, works, authors and artists, epochs, mythology, paintings, a dictionary and a chronicle. I am Poludne’s co-founder, the author of its idea and its curator, and its product and project manager. Here is what the platform can do, how to use it, and everything new as soon as it ships.
My role
since July 2025. Poludne’s own “About us” page says the same: Alona Mazurenko — author of the idea, curator of the platform.
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An interactive map of the historical lands of the Ukrainian word, from Priashiv to Kuban. Pick a region and see which writers were born there. Historical lands reach beyond today’s border, which is shown dashed. It is still a prototype: the links between authors and regions are being checked.
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Quotes, works, authors and collections
Every day the home page opens with a fresh edition of eight cards: readers’ favourite quotes, a themed series of the day, a work you might like and a painting of the day. Next to it are the stories “What’s here”, “Yesterday” and “Creature of the day”, and quotes can be picked by mood: wisdom, love, strength of spirit, hope and more.
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The heart of Poludne is thousands of quotes from Ukrainian literature. Each one is selected and checked against its original source, so the author and the work it comes from are always right next to it.
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A catalogue of works from ancient times to today. Each work has an annotation, its year, genre and epoch, quotes from it, readers’ reviews and a rating from 1 to 10, plus similar works and the collections it belongs to.
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Pages for writers and artists with biographical notes, their works and quotes. The home page shows the week’s most popular authors and those born this month.
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The heroes of Ukrainian works: who they are, which work they come from and what they say. Each has a story about the character and their lines, and mythological heroes such as Mavka are also linked to folk beliefs.
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Curated collections of works on one theme or era: from “100 landmark novels and novellas” to VAPLITE, MARS and the VUFKU era. Each week one of them is the “Collection of the week”. The Ukrainian literature school curriculum for grades 9, 10 and 11 is gathered separately.
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Epochs, myths, paintings and words
Twelve epochs of Ukrainian literature as twelve hours on a clock face: from the first chronicles to the twelfth hour — noon, today’s literature. The sun stands at your current hour. Each era has “The voice of the era”, “Generations”, “What to read” and “How it sounded”, and “An epoch in a minute” tells its story as a set of stories.
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Gods, spirits and myths with which our ancestors explained the world — with sources, to tell what is attested from what is invented. Every day there is a “Creature of the day”; the “Wheel of the year” shows the current season and feast, “Who lives where” places creatures in the sky, forests and waters, and “How the world began” gathers the myths of the peoples of our land and shows the threads between them as a cross-stitch chart.
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Paintings by Ukrainian artists whose works are already in the public domain. Each one says where it is kept and where the image comes from, and each can be viewed full screen.
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A dictionary of rare and forgotten Ukrainian words with short explanations: “obiistia” is a farmyard, “vydnokolo” the horizon, “bovvanity” to loom in the distance.
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When Ukrainian authors were born — from Poludne’s Chronicle, which holds thousands of events. The calendar shows who celebrates today, the nearest birthdays, this year’s anniversaries and every month on its own.
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Your library, the feed and search
Your shelves and treasure box, everything of your own in one place: what you have read, what you are reading and what you want to read.
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Poludne’s community: posts, reviews and discussions of Ukrainian literature. Readers rate works from 1 to 10, write reviews, suggest quotes and similar works, and the newest reviews also appear on the home page.
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One search for everything: authors, works, characters, collections and people from the community. Three letters are enough.
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Product and project management
We started Poludne from scratch and grew it to real traffic numbers. I am its co-founder and product manager: I am responsible for what the product becomes next — what we build, in what order, and how it sounds to a reader. And as its project manager I lead the team so that what we plan ships on time.
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