Oleksandr Solonets

An exhibit of the rushnyk (ritual embroidered towel) of Cherkasy unity has opened at the Cherkasy Oblast Local History Museum. It is a thirty-meter-long piece of homespun cloth, on which every district and its cities have embroidered a fragment of its traditional rushnyk. A lot of embroideries...

Mykola Telizhenko, a famous master of vytynanky art, has already created six works devoted to the Euromaidan and ongoing revolution. The Cherkasy artist intends to create about 20 vytynanky on this subject. He shared his latest works with The Day, showed sketches of future vytynanky of the...

Museum of Taras Shevchenko’s Stay in the Village of Moshny, a branch of Cherkasy Regional Local History Museum, was opened in early January in the village of Moshny, Cherkasy region. Uniquely, the museum is housed in an authentic mid-19th century rural house where Shevchenko lived in July...

Vitalii Nechaiev, aged 10, from Zvenyhorodka, Cherkasy oblast, was recently awarded the title of absolute winner of the 12th International Giuseppe Sciacca Award. This extremely talented boy received this prize in the Vatican. Let us remind that in 2011, Nechaiev was awarded the Pride of the Nation...

The park is an oasis of beauty and mystery. Taking a walk across Uman’s Sofiivka Park always brings out those special kinds of contemplations. It was built for a beloved woman. Don’t even dream to make the round of it in a single day. There is the Akheront River, across which a modern...