Public space is their first encounter with a new place for many people. This is especially true in crisis situations, when a person is forced into a different environment. As is the case, for example, in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion. About 400,000 internally displaced people have arrived in Transcarpathia as a rear region of Ukraine. A significant number of them settled in Uzhhorod as the regional centre and now they make up more than 35 percent of the city's pre-war population. Therefore, monitoring the linguistic landscape of the border city, researching it, and then developing recommendations for its adjustment and improvement seems to us relevant. In addition, the language landscape is a reflection of the state's language policy, a kind of its public expression. We intend to highlight these two important points in our report.The study will be also based on the analysis of in-depth interviews with internally displaced people. The interviews were conducted using the method of language biographies from 2021 to 2023 within the framework of the international scientific project “Debates on Linguistic Diversity – Language Management of Minority Languages in Post-Soviet Ukraine.”
