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10 May 2007 17:27

Kateryna Yushchenko Presents Ukraine’s Hetmans to Sumy Oblast Children

May 10, 2007, the Sumy Oblast Local History Museum hosted a ceremony of donating the Ukraine’s Hetmans books to Sumy Oblast schools and libraries. The event was part of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund’s Cossack Fame for Little Readers project.

Among participants of the ceremony were Head of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Supervisory Board Kateryna Yushchenko, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health Protection Tetiana Bakhteyeva, UNICEF Representative in Ukraine Jeremy Hartley, Head of the Sumy Oblast State Administration Pavel Kachur and other representatives of the Sumy Oblast State Administration

Mrs. Yushchenko passed over to Head of the Sumy Oblast State Administration Pavel Kachur a certificate for delivering 850 copies of the Ukraine’s Hetmans books to Sumy Oblast schools and libraries. “I am very glad to bring the Ukraine’s Hetmans books to Sumy Oblast schools and libraries. I am happy to know that the descendants of the legendary Ukrainian heroes will be the first to get this book,” she said. Mrs. Kateryna expressed her hope that the richly illustrated publication will help children discover the captivating heroic and sometimes tragic pages of our history.

Accompanied by Director of the Sumy Oblast Local History Museum Vladyslav Terentyev, Mrs. Yushchenko was given a tour of the museum and spoke to its staff members.

On behalf of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, Mrs. Kateryna presented to the museum the National Arts Museum of Ukraine’s albums, Ukrainian Icon Painting in the Twelfth to Nineteenth Centuries and Ukrainian Portrait in the Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries.

In their turn, the staff of the Sumy Oblast Local History Museum gave to Mrs. Kateryna a Sumy Names directory and Bee Garden composition by folk artists.

The Cossacks Fame for the Little Readers project was presented February 27, 2007, in Poltava. The Cossacks’ Fame for the Little Readers project envisages presenting the Ukraine’s Hetmans books to schools in Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv oblasts. The book contains an intense and captivating story of our country in the Cossacks’ times, is richly illustrated, and is intended for junior and secondary schoolchildren, as well as all readers striving to learn more about Ukraine’s history. The Ukraine’s Hetmans books have already been passed over to Poltava and Kharkiv oblasts schools.

The Sumy Oblast Local History Museum was founded in 1920. Its main fund preserves 44,400 exhibits: archeological, numismatic, ethnographic, paleontologic collections along with valuable historical documents, rare books, newspapers, posters, leaflets, weapons, banners, memorabilia, crockery, furniture, etc.

Since 1960, the widely known in Ukraine and abroad Anton Chekhov Memorial House started its work as a branch of the Sumy Oblast Local History Museum in a wing of a mansion on the outskirts of Sumy, Luka. The museum’s main fund contains 1760 exhibits, in part, original photographs, documents related to Chekhov and his family, lifetime editions of his works completed at Luka.

This event was part of the schedule of Head of the Ukraine 3000 Fund Supervisory Board Kateryna Yushchenko’s and Ukraine 3000 Fund representatives’ one-day working trip to Sumy. Earlier they have visited the Sumy Suprun Boarding School for Orphaned Children and Children, Deprived of Parents’ Care, Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital, and Sumy National Agricultural University.