Viktoria Kobyliatska

The path will be created soon owing to the efforts of the 5th Wooden Sculpture Festival’s participants. This year’s event commemorated Taras Shevchenko’s legacy, offering the sculptors a chance to trace the poet’s life journey in their works. The festival organizers were the...

The clown team’s leader Viktoria Doroshenko organized a holiday for the kids, holding an art therapy session with visiting artists. She invited artists from Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk to Cherkasy. Ivan Mykhailov and Volodymyr Hryvinsky joined the children in creating pictures and introduced...

A former student of the History Department at Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University Vitalii Pasholok discovered a unique artifact near the village of Zhuravka, Shpola raion. It is a ritual stone pestle made in a shape of a head of a horned snake. Today the artifact is exhibited in the...

The plaque commemorating prominent cooperative movement figure, financier, civic activist and statesman, the first minister of finance in the government of the UPR Khrystofor Baranovsky was unveiled in the village of Dzenzelivka, Mankivka raion, Cherkasy oblast, on July 27.He lived in the village...

The Kholodny Yar uprising anniversary celebrations were held over the April 20-21 weekend in Cherkasy region. Approximately 1,000 people arrived there on April 21. The rally was “sponsored” by opposition parties, which seized the opportunity to express all the grudges they held against...

A small museum “Vasyl Symonenko’s Working Room” is located in a hundred-year-old house in Cherkasy. Even though it exists for 15 years, it is still not very popular. Locals come there every once in a while. Instead, the museum room is often visited by foreigners, who travel long...

Members of the Cherkasy City Council backed the decision of the municipal toponymic commission to rename Engels Street to honor Chornovil. The council’s resolution was carried by 35 votes out of 38 councilors present on Thursday, December 13. The Communist councilors Viktor Bilousov and...

These days Breslover Hasidim are celebrating the arrival of the New Year (Rosh Hashanah). This year they celebrate it on September 16 through 18. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVS) Department in Cherkasy oblast, approximately 30,000 pilgrims from 25 countries of the...

Danylo Narbut lived in Cherkasy for 33 years. First he worked in the Cherkasy Taras Shevchenko Theater, then retired and painted a lot. The memorial museum promised to open one large room of changing exhibits. Besides, the museum has a room dedicated to Danylo Narbut’s father, outstanding graphic...

The white grand piano has been installed in the inner center of Cherkasy near the regional state administration building. Everyone is welcome to play it, while live music concerts will be hosted there every weekend. Moreover, the piano is connected to a musical fountain nearby, so that sad music...