Olesia Shutkevych

A unique Cossack-era wooden church has been rebuilt in the village of Mala Rostivka, Orativ raion. According to the extant data, the shrine was built back in 1776, restored in the 1830s, and closed a century ago, sometime after 1917. The locals say, however, that the mass was still clandestinely...

Last week, on the initiative of the Podillia Regional Oncology Center, Vinnytsia hosted an international conference on oncoplastic surgery and reconstructive surgery of breast cancer. In addition to speaking about multidisciplinary treatment of malignant tumors in the thorax, some leading foreign...

We met Vinnytsia Mayor Serhii Morhunov in a working atmosphere, finding a “slot” in his tight schedule full of briefings and routine meetings.Vinnytsia is often cited as an example of new dynamism. The city is building new kindergartens, producing its own VinWay trams, updating public...

According to the announcement, the film about Vasyl Stus, which won the Ukrainian State Film Agency’s (Derzhkino’s) 10th competitive selection, deals with bright pages in the life and a Sixtier poet and his mysterious death. As the authors noted, events “unfold during the KGB...

The nongovernmental organization Center of Visual Projects is planning to reproduce thirty architectural monuments and over a hundred secondary objects in the 3D format. Ten experienced designers and beginners from among Vinnytsia senior school pupils will be working gratis on mockups. The main...

For residents of the small town of Lypovets, the Vinnytsia region, Maksym Bevza is a true legend. He is an example for his former school’s students, and his successes are passed down to each successive class. The lad showed brilliant results in the External Independent Evaluation (EIE),...

Recently, pub owner Vitalii Humeniuk, who leases a barge on the riverfront, started offering this attraction to his patrons. A romantic boat was designed by his grandpa to confess his love to his future wife. Many years later, Humeniuk decided to give the gondola a second life, restored it,...

From April 25 till May 6, the art center of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky State Pedagogical University of Vinnytsia hosted the 19th International Photo Exhibition “Den-2017.” Over these few days, the exposition had hundreds of visitors. They came both individually and in organized...

Born and raised in the Vinnytsia region and living in Britain for many years, Olena staged an “ethno-provocation” in the London Underground. “It was more of an experiment or a check to see the reaction of people,” Olena specifies at once. “Every time I ride to the...

Volodymyr Koziuk has been traveling across villages for 20 years in search of old thatched houses. At first he painted and then began to photograph them. Some people were surprised – who needs this? But Volodymyr went on because he understood that the traditional thatched house as...