Tetiana Avdashkova

“There are hotels for people, but we can also establish hotels for insects, as other creatures require certain conditions to thrive just as humans. The hotel is a structure providing bees with a place to nest,” Serhii Ivanov, entomology professor at the Taurida Vernadsky National...

The art of stained glass originated in Europe and appeared in Ukrainian tradition quite recently. For a long time only large cultural buildings like theaters, libraries, and museums were decorated with stained glass. Now even private homes are decorated with stained glass windows. Serhii Selezniov...

“The interest in graphics is the dictates of the present time. Graphic design is the basis for any work of art. In creative work of Sokolov graphics has a special place, he was an excellent graphic ar­tist. I think the exhibition of Sokolov’s art works will help to better define the...

Opening of the unique diorama of the first minutes of the Chornobyl tragedy took place in the “Wormwood Star” Museum in Yevpatoria on the Day of celebrating liquidators of the Chornobyl disaster. On this day, the author of the diorama Ivan Kudriavtsev was awarded the “Patriot of...

The young Ukrainian architects Kateryna Yarova and Andrii Rodych won the first prize in the Architecture category of the Creative Polygon-2012 competition in Moscow, having presented a single-family mansion design. This competition is a good start for young architects and a platform for self-...

SIMFEROPOL – The Holodomor Remembrance Day falls on November 24 this year. Thousands of candles will be lit all over the country in the evening. Or even hundreds of thousands. This is not only a display of respect to millions of deceased, but also a way to keep the memory of them in the...

“There is no Black Sea region, there is a Black Sea geopolitical fault instead. The Black Sea region is connected only by sea ferry operators’ activity. Virtually all coastal port cities, with the sole exception of Feodosia, are linked with each other by ferries today. All other fields are...

Six hundred years ago in Japan samurai learned to “draw” pictures with petals. This art was called oshibana and gradually spread throughout the world. Plants from the Crimea, the Carpathian Mountains, and Zaporizhia “live” on patterns of the Ukrainian landscape designer,...

Nearly 80 artists from Ukraine and Poland took part in the biennial and about 300 art works were presented there. Watercolor is a quite difficult technique, which requires an artist to work with a steady hand and be able to convey the ease of the feeling of the moment. Transparency is the main...

On Sunday morning, November 4, Simferopol cyclists crowded in Pryvokzalna square, waiting to take part in the First Streetcar Track Race (following line No.1, which ran in the Crimean capital from 1914 till 1921). The turnout was a pleasant surprise (over 70 participants). Another was the weather,...