The Batkivschyna sails into New York: a photo report

Photos by Roman Woronowycz

Capt. Dymytrii Birioukovitch comes onto the deck from the captain's quarters.

Petro Vaschyk, a member of the Batkivschyna crew as well as of the Kozak Brotherhood of Ukraine, entertains the crowd on Pier 86 in New York City.

Sailor Serhii Lohachev secures a sail.

The ship's cook, Leonid Deriagyn, wears the Batkivschyna's official sailor's uniform.

Petro Vaschyk with New Yorker Volodymyr Procyk. [Photo by Roma Hadzewycz]

Several crew members relax as the vessel approaches New York.

The Batkivschyna approaches the USS Intrepid alongside which it subsequently docked.

Roy Kellogg, one of the founders of the Discover Ukraine expedition and the person responsible for land operations, directs the Batkivschyna's approach in New York as a crowd awaits.

The captain and an assistant track the vessel's progress to New York on sea charts.

Capt. Dymytrii Birioukovitch with The Ukrainian Weekly Kyiv Bureau Editor Roman Woronowycz near the Batkivschyna docked in New York. [Photo by Roma Hadzewycz]

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 9, 2000, No. 28, Vol. LXVIII

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