Larissa Babij

Larissa Babij is a Ukrainian-American translator, writer, and Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais method) teacher based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her translations of Ukrainian artists–thinkers have appeared in Krytyka and The Evergreen Review. She is also a freelance interpreter between Ukrainian and English, specialising in movement/performance and military training. Her book A Kind of Refugee, based on her wartime dispatches on Substack, will be published by ibidem Press in 2024.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Victoria Amelina, Three Poems
Kateryna Iakovlenko, A Voice from Underground

Contact: larissa.babij@gmail.com

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Legacies of Chornobyl

• Issue 6 (March 2026)

The explosion that destroyed the Chornobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 also reshaped political, ecological, and cultural landscapes around the world. This issue of the London Ukrainian Review marks the fortieth anniversary of the disaster and examines its evolving global impacts.

Sasha Dovzhyk
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Nuclear Roulette: Serhii Plokhy in Conversation

• Issue 6 (March 2026)

Author of The Nuclear Age, historian Serhii Plokhy, discusses how Chornobyl catalysed Ukrainian independence and reveals the nuclear industry’s structural vulnerabilities. The conversation explores how nuclear disasters transform politics across decades and geographies with a focus on the weaponisation of civilian nuclear infrastructure during Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Sasha Dovzhyk
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