Telepyno school of I-III grades
By Alyona Prytula
2013
These fortresses are no doubt on the first place of 7
wonders of Ukraine. Kamyanets - Podilskyy town has
the frotification system that is unique all over the Europe
and Hotyn fortrees was the center of numerous wars and
fights.
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is a unique monastic complex,
included by the UNESCO into the list of the monuments
of the world-wide significance. The complex consists of
two parts: the above-ground (religious constructions
complex) and underground (caves).
Adventurous trip to Hoverla mountain will not live leave
any touris indifferent as this is the highest mountain in
Ukraine. An additional excursion can be made to the
Prut River waterfall, one of the Danube tributaries,
situated to the south of the main trail.
Rynok Square - the centre of the Lviv historicalarchitectural preserve - ia a grand esembly. It is dated
back to the 14th century and is formed by a complex of
44 buildings, different in style and period. Many of them
beras traces of Reneissance, baroque, Empire and
modern styles.
Date of birth: 22 April 1985 (Eupatoriya, Ukrainian SSR)
Kseniya Simonova is a sand animator from Ukraine. She started drawing
with sand after her business collapsed due to the 2008 financial crisis, and
had less than one year experience when she entered Ukraine's Got Talent.
She became the 2009 winner of that show, making a sand animation that
portrayed life during the USSR's Great Patriotic War against the Third
Reich in World War II. Simonova won 1,000,000 Ukrainian Hryvnia
(approx. USD125,000) for her first place in the show.
Date of birth: 12 January 1909 (in the village of Bolotnya in
the Ivankiv Raion, Kiev Oblast)
Maria Pryimachenko was a renowned Ukrainian village folk
art painter, representative of naive art. The artist was involved
with drawing, embroidery and painting оn ceramics.
Іn her childhood Maria was taken ill with polio, and this
painful disease influenced the girl's life. By reports of her
relatives, Maria grew а thoughtful and considerate person,
having compassion for nature and every living thing.
The works of Pryimachenko can be subdivided into thematic,
symbolic and ornamental pieces. Maria Pryimachenko has
developed a style of her own.
Her talent was noticed due to the communist slogan of the 1930s: any
person who “delves and spins” can become a poet and an artist. Her works
– pictures as well as pottery- and textile painting – were promoted by the
regime and sent to international exhibitions in Paris, Warsaw. Sophia,
Montreal, Prague.
During her life Maria Prymachenko painted more than a thousand
pictures. About half of them are now at Kyiv Museum of Decorative Art,
some 200 – in other museums of Ukraine and the ex-USSR, another 200
are owned by private collectors.
Maria Prymachenko was right-handed, but she painted all her pictures
with her left hand. She might have instinctively felt that this world and the
world of her imagination did not overlap. Maria died at the age of 89.
The year 2009 was announced by UNESCO the year of Maria
Prymachenko.
Date of birth: 11 October 1983 (Gorlovka, Donetska oblast,
Ukrainian SSR)
Ruslan Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chessplayer and former FIDE
world champion. In 1998, at the age of fourteen, he was awarded
the Grandmaster title, making him the youngest ever player at that
time to hold the title. In 2002 Ruslan became FIDE world
champion at the age of 18, the first teenager and youngest person to
ever become FIDE world champion.
Date of birth: 24 May 1973 (Lviv, Ukrainian SSR)
Ruslana is the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, a
World Music Award winning and MTV Europe Music Award
nominated artist. She is a singer, songwriter, producer,
conductor, and pianist. She writes, composes and produces
her own songs and music videos.
Date of birth: 25 June 1988 (Kovalilvka in Kolomiya, Ukrainian SSR)
Olesya Stefanko is a Ukrainian beauty pageant titleholder who was
crowned Miss Ukraine Universe 2011 and represented her country in the
2011 Miss Universe pageant, where she was 1st runner up. Olesya Stefanko
became Ukraine's highest placement in history. Olesya was born in
Kolomyia (village Kovalivka) in the Carpathian region of Ukraine. She was
named Miss Odesa National Law Academy in 2008 as a student at the
Institute of Prosecution and Investigation. After her victory at Miss
Ukraine Universe 2011, she began her modeling career. She's currently
pursuing a law degree in Odessa.