Dnipro is currently hosting a large quest festival called “(Not)Trivial Facts about Dnipro” — a citywide project that includes 88 different locations across the city. Participants can join various quests combining historical, cultural, and entertainment elements. The Jewish touch to this diversity was added by Lyceum No. 144 named after Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, whose 10th-grade students created a quest titled “The Jewish Face of a Ukrainian City”, highlighting significant locations connected to the Jewish community of Dnipro.
This quest tells the story of the Jewish dimension that is an inseparable part of both the past and present of our native city. The lyceum students, whose school is named after the great Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, began their quest at the very house where he lived during his final years in Dnipro — and from which he was arrested by Soviet authorities and sent to his death.
After completing the task associated with that location, the quest led them to the so-called “Pchyolkin House” — a well-known building in Dnipro’s secular life today, yet one with a remarkable history. The participants then faced new tasks and clues that took them to the mini-sculpture “Golden Rose,” the city’s famous synagogue, the Menorah Center, and eventually to the Jewish Lyceum itself — one of the top educational institutions in Dnipro, located on the street named after the great son of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
The quest, developed by the students under the guidance of Deputy Principal Tetyana Syrotkina, became an engaging part of the citywide festival. Its goal — to introduce students to Dnipro’s Jewish heritage through fun interactive challenges, while fostering teamwork, observation, and historical awareness — can be considered accomplished. You, too, can imagine yourself a student of the Jewish Lyceum and explore the quest materials at the link.
