Cherkasy Favorites

Favorite thing: This building of 16 floors, became an inhabited sector. Him to been built at the time of the construction of the trans - continental pipeline The union, and lets in testimony of friendship by the constructors of East Germany (ex RDA) who participated in the setting in service.

Favorite thing: Plochtchad Slavi is one of the quarter residential modern of Cherkasy. It has been constructed, on the strands of the stream in the first years of the independence, about ten years ago.

Fondest memory: Family's life suffers from the lack of lodgings. When Ukraine was part of the soviet union again, the more part of the lodgings belonged to the State, that was also in charge of their interview. The rents were inexpensive. Now, nor the State nor the workers don't have the necessary money to maintain the lodgings. The houses and the buildings are old and have need of renovations.

Although the system is reconsidered currently, it is going to be necessary numerous years so that the Ukrainians can get decent lodgings to an affordable price. While waiting, the families have the tendency to live heaped one on the other already too much in houses and apartments

Favorite thing: The cities in Ukraine, are endowed otherwise with magnificent public parks where friends and families like to meet and to entertain themselves.
Cherkasy doesn't depart to this rule, and the parklands and public gardens are numerous.

Favorite thing: The museum of Ukrainian popular art of Cherkasy is present to reveal the rich passes cultural and artistic of the region.

Fondest memory: The Ukrainian popular art is rich and colorful, as testify the decoration of the eggs or the fine black and red embroideries that decorate the traditional clothes of it. The texture and the wood carving also occupy an important place in the tradition.
In the domain of the painting, the Ukrainian art is especially characterized by its icons, paintings on wood very stylized religious character representative. One finds some in many Ukrainian homes. One of the most famous icons is the one of the Virgin of Kyiv, that dates the XII th century.

Favorite thing: The statue of the famous Ukrainian poet, Taras Chevtchenko, honors its memory in the center of Cherkasy.
DID YOU KNOW IT ?
Taras Chevtchenko is one of the first writers to have written in Ukrainian. Member of a looking for movement to free Ukraine of the Russian ascendancy, he was deported in Siberia.
The city of Winnipeg erected a statue in his honor and a museum carries its name in Toronto.

Fondest memory: Born serf of P. Engelhardt, March 9, 1814, in Moryntsi, Zvenyhora povit, region of Kyïv. Dead March 10, 1861 in St. Petersbourg, Russia. Until the XIX th century, the Ukrainian art was influenced a lot by the European styles. Taras Chevtchenko, painter, engraver and famous poet, introduced a new style of realistic paintings representing life and the Ukrainian landscapes then.

Among the others big Ukrainian writers, one will mention the dramatist and novelist Nikolas Gogol (1809-1852), poet Ivan Franko (1856-1916) and the dramatist and poet Lesia Ukrainka (1871-1913).

Favorite thing: The Palats Kulturi Droujba Napodiv is situated at the heart of the city of Cherkasy, very close to the big main artery.

Fondest memory: The song is at the heart of the Ukrainian tradition. The composers as Tchaïkovski and Rachmaninovs are besides often himself inspired of the Ukrainian popular songs for their music. Some of these songs date the XVI th and XV th centuries, time to which the kobzars (kind of itinerant minstrels) sang village in village, coming with instruments as the kobza (kind of lute).

Besides the kobza, two other instruments can be considered like typically Ukrainian : the trembita, that looks like a horn of the Alps, and the tsymbali or tympanon.. The Ukrainian folk songs are associated to the domestic events (marriages, funeral ceremony...), or have been composed for celebrate different times of the year : the koliadky and shchedrivky for Christmas and the New Year, the hihalky to sing the spring, and the kupalni for the nights of summer.
Ukraine has a long tradition of opera and classic dance that carries up to the XVIII th century. The Ballet of Kyiv is one of the most famous of the world.

Favorite thing: Cherkasy possesses a dramatic theater where is played regularly of the pieces of the Ukrainian or Russian index, and of the adaptations of the world index : the Tcherkaskiya Dramatitchniya Teatr.

Fondest memory: It is situated by a vast avenue that leads the entry of the city (since the bridge on the Dniepr), to the center city.

Favorite thing: It is in the Palace Chlouby, that the marriage ceremonies civilians are celebrated, as well as the big evenments of the city.

Fondest memory: This palace is situated in the historic center of the city, just on the heights of the strands of the Dniepr.