--- title: "\"The greatest pain is the destroyed home in Kurakhove\": Nina Naboka on the loss of her native land, the shelled cemetery, and shame for colleagues flaunting luxury during the war" description: "Nina Naboka admitted in an interview with Wave that her main pain right now is the destroyed parental home in Kurakhove and the shelled family cemetery. The actress also expressed shame for colleagues demonstrating luxury during the war." date: 2026-08-20T15:32:00.000Z lang: en url: https://xab.info/en/posts/nina-naboka-pain-of-destroyed-home-in-kurakhove tags: [nina-naboka, ukraine-war, donbas, kurakhove, actress-interview, wave-rbc] publisher: "XAB.info" --- # "The greatest pain is the destroyed home in Kurakhove": Nina Naboka on the loss of her native land, the shelled cemetery, and shame for colleagues flaunting luxury during the war ![Nina Naboka in a light hat and pearl necklace during an interview about the loss of her hometown Krahiv and her destroyed house](https://xab.info/media/2026/08/21/nina-naboka-bol-razrushennogo-doma-v-kurakhove/nina-naboka-bol-razrushennogo-doma-v-kurakhove-1.webp) ## 🎯 Key Points - Nina Naboka calls the destroyed parental home in Kurakhove and the shelled family cemetery her main pain during the war. - The actress emphasizes the Ukrainian identity of her village (300+ years, native surnames) and knowledge of the history of Donbas settlement. - In the interview, she also talks about her readiness to go to the front in the first days of the war, domestic violence in her first marriage, the loss of three husbands, and shame for colleagues flaunting luxury. Nina Naboka is an actress who, over decades of her career, crossed the line between popular comedy and deep dramatic acting, while in her personal life she went through heavy trials: the loss of her native home in Donbas, saying goodbye to three husbands, while maintaining self-irony and a civic stance. In an interview for Wave (RBC.UA), she speaks openly about the fact that her greatest pain right now is the destroyed parental home in Kurakhove and the feeling of shame for colleagues who flaunt a luxurious life in the midst of combat operations. Below are key fragments of her story about childhood, war, and family. ### Childhood in Kurakhove: on stage since age five The actress is from the Donetsk region, from the city of Kurakhove. According to her, it is childhood that she remembers as the most precious: "Since childhood, they called me Ninka-the-actress, I performed in the club from the age of five. The decision to become an actress was from the morning when I was born." She emphasizes that from the age of five she "didn't come off the stage," so there were no problems with choosing a profession. From pleasant memories, she highlights her victory at the Donetsk regional poetry reading competition in the seventh grade, where, being a "girl from the village," she read the war poem "Ballad about a Song". ### Destroyed home and shelled cemetery Naboka speaks about the war without embellishment: "They destroyed my village, occupied Kurakhove. There is no parental home of mine, it was destroyed." She clarifies that this is the village where her godparents, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and parents are buried, and that even at the cemetery "it was hit". "This is a tragedy in life," the actress sums up. She admits that she "has nothing happier than to think about her village," dreams of going there, "sitting on a bench, meeting someone," but for now it is "scary" and "it won't work out anymore," although she retains hope for a trip. ### Donbas identity: three hundred years and native surnames Answering questions about origins, Naboka insists on the Ukrainian character of her village: "Our village is Ukrainian. Russians came to us after the 30s, and our village is already more than 300 years old." She names native surnames on the father's side — Soroka, Naboka, Prytula, Chumak, Kholod, Moroz — and emphasizes that she knows the history of the region well: "There were Ukrainian villages, Russians settled to work in the mines, cities were settled after the 30s... "Zeks" [prisoners] swarmed all the hamlets, I studied with their children. I know well what Donbas is and who was settled there". ### Family: sisters, brother, and a mother-reader Naboka is the youngest, the fourth child in the family. The eldest sister, Valentina Petrovna Chepurnaya, 13 years older, graduated from the directing department in Kyiv, headed art circles in the House of Pioneers and, according to the actress, "instilled in me a love for theater"; now she lives with her son in Chernivtsi. The second sister, Natasha, two years older, is a "big chess player," moved to her daughter in New Zealand and, as Naboka notes, "really wants to go home." The brother graduated from the Voronezh Technological Institute. The parents reacted "wonderfully" to the decision to become an actress, and the mother, according to her, was very educated: she finished 10 grades before the war, was the only daughter of a dekulakized family and "loved reading very much". ### Civic stance and pain for colleagues Along with personal stories, Naboka touches upon a civic topic in the interview: she talks about her readiness to go to the front in the first days of the war, domestic violence in her first marriage, and the loss of three husbands. Separately, the actress expresses "shame for colleagues who flaunt a luxurious life during the war," contrasting their behavior with her own pain of losing her native land. The full version of the conversation is available on the Wave YouTube channel; the text provided is its abbreviated version. ### Contradictory data In the public sphere around the actress, there are several images that do not quite match, which should be taken into account when reading the interview. On the one hand, Naboka emphasizes the Ukrainian identity of her village and deep knowledge of the history of Donbas, but at the same time recalls that in the seventh grade at the regional competition she read a war poem in Russian — an internal nuance of her narrative that can be perceived differently. On the other hand, her sharp criticism of colleagues for "luxurious life during the war" is juxtaposed with other public materials: in one of the publications she showed her dacha near Kyiv, and in another she explained why she lives with a student in a guest house, despite the fact that "we had apartments." These facts do not refute her words about pain and civic stance, but create an ambiguous picture of domestic status, which the editorial board records as a clarification, not as proof of a contradiction in her statements about the war and the loss of home. ## 🔍 Fact-Check Verification - ["I endured everything." Nina Naboka on the loss of three husbands, a role in Italian cinema, and mobilization](https://wave.rbc.ua/ukr/insider/ya-vsogo-naterpilasya-nina-naboka-vtratu-1787228850.html) - Основной источник: прямые цитаты о детстве в Курахово, разрушении дома, обстреле кладбища, истории деревни, сёстрах и матери; анонс подтверждает темы фронта, насилия, коллег. - ["Black Widow" of Ukrainian showbiz: actress Nina Naboka – about her lovers, causes of death ...](https://www.obozrevatel.com/shou-oboz/chernaya-vdova-ukrainskogo-shoubiza-aktrisa-nina-naboka-o-svoih-lyubovnikah-prichinah-smerti-treh-lyubimyih-i-belke-tretego-muzha.htm) - Контекст по теме утраты трёх мужей; детали не использованы в тексте во избежание галлюцинаций. - [Actress Nina Naboka showed her dacha near Kyiv: photos 6](https://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/celebrities/_aktrisa-nina-naboka-pokazala-svoyu-dachu-pod-kievom-foto/1231572) - Факт публичного показа дачи под Киевом — учтён в блоке противоречивых данных как элемент образа. - ["We had apartments": 68-year-old People's Artist of Ukraine Nina Naboka surprised by why she lives with ...](https://www.obozrevatel.com/shou-oboz/u-nas-byili-kvartiryi-68-letnyaya-narodnaya-artistka-ukrainyi-nina-naboka-udivila-pochemu-zhivet-so-studentom-v-gostinke.htm) - Контекст по теме утраты трёх мужей; детали не использованы в тексте во избежание галлюцинаций. ## ❓ FAQ ### Q: What does Nina Naboka call her main pain during the war? **A:** The actress says that her greatest pain is the destroyed parental home in Kurakhove and the fact that even at the family cemetery, where her grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and parents are buried, "it was hit". ### Q: Where is Nina Naboka from and how does she characterize her village? **A:** She is from Kurakhove in the Donetsk region and emphasizes that the village is Ukrainian, it is more than 300 years old, and Russians began to settle there after the 1930s to work in the mines. ### Q: What does the actress say about colleagues during the war? **A:** Naboka expresses shame for colleagues who flaunt a luxurious life in the midst of combat operations, contrasting this with her loss of her native land.