Alla Sadovnyk

Swans have been wintering in Shpaniv rural council area for 10 years already. The birds arrive to the mouth of the Ustia River in the late fall and fly away in the spring, as the weather becomes warmer. Despite occasional 30-degree cold spells, no bird has died there over the decade.As much as...

Two stray dogs, which had been hit by passing cars in Rivne, are using special wheelchairs now. A few more dozen crippled animals are waiting their turn. The idea to put dogs in wheelchairs belongs to Andrii Prokopchuk from Rivne. He founded Umka, a charitable foundation in Rivne oblast, which over...

Mykhailo ILLIENKO, the film director, told The Day this film’s box office returns amount to some 1.5 million hryvnias, and that this sum could have been considerably larger: “Most shows were in the morning or afternoon. Practically no night shows because this Ukrainian motion picture...

At the beginning of February, the annual conference of the historical and search organization “Search-Dnipro,” which is a part of the National Civic Association “People’s Memory Alliance,” was held in Dnipropetrovsk. The results of 2011 were summed up there: search...

In his almost 40 years Rostyslav Voronko, who comes from Radyvyliv raion, Rivne oblast, has managed to restore three German churches of the 16th-18th centuries and win the hearts of German art-lovers with his pictures. However, his name is scarcely known in Ukraine and he has never received...