Odyssey of Kharkiv's "Big Science": the City's Unique Laboratories Captivated the Heart of a French Photographer

Collage by Olena Zelenina.

When you pick up this book, your fingers feel the unusual texture of the cover. This is not Braille — it is embossing in the form of an old punched tape that once launched the first Soviet computers. Above it is a photograph resembling either the control panel of a bizarre spaceship or a gigantic mechanical piano, where instead of keys, there are hundreds of multi-colored toggle switches, signal lamps, and round dials.