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Ukraine: The race to save the country's artistic treasures - BBC News

Maria Prymachenko

Among the outstanding figures of 20th-century Ukrainian culture Maria Prymachenko, the Honoured Artist of Ukraine and winner of the Shevchenko National Prize, occupies one of the highest places. Her name belongs to the line of outstanding artists of naïve art, such as Henri Rousseau, Niko Pirosmanishvili, Ivan Generalic and Nykyfor Drovniak. 

Maria Prymachenko devoted nearly 60 years to her beloved occupation, painting. Her works are spread among Ukrainian museums and private collections. The largest part of her legacy, nearly 650 works, dating from 1936 to 1987, is kept in the collection of the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Applied Art in Kyiv.

Maria Prymachenko was born in the Kyiv region into a peasant family. In her childhood she suffered from polio, which left her an invalid for the rest of her life. But this severe illness did not break her spirit. Having learned embroidery from her mother during childhood, in the late 1920s and early 1930s the future artist started to work in the Ivankiv Co-operative Embroidery Association, where she brought her own interpretation to traditional ornaments as well as creating her own artistic designs. The Kyivan artist Tetiana Floru saw Maria’s embroideries in the Ivankiv market, and in 1935 invited the talented girl to work in the Central Experimental Workshop of the Kyiv Museum of Ukrainian Art. Here folk artists from the whole of Ukraine were assembled together for the preparation of the First Republican Folk Art Exhibition, which took place in Kyiv in 1936, and was later shown in moscow and leningrad(petersburg). In 1937 some of Prymachenko’s drawings were presented in the International Exhibition in Paris.

Residents of Ivankiv in the Kyiv region, after the retreat of the russian troops, decided on their own to make a crossing instead of the destroyed bridge at the entrance to the village

Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say

Roughly 25 paintings by the celebrated Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko were burned as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement posted to social media on Monday. The destruction of the artworks has not been independently confirmed by The New York Times. In a tweet, the ministry said that the works had been housed inside a…

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Ukraine bangunkan sumber tenaga baru

KIEV, 13 November:

Konflik berterusan antara tentera dan puak pemisah pro-Rusia, menjejaskan ekonomi Ukraine sehingga hampir menjadi muflis.

Bagi mengelakkan terus bergantung kepada sumber gas Rusia, sebuah kilang berhampiran Kiev menggunakan sisa sampah dan kayu untuk menjana sumber elektrik.

Sebuah syarikat kejuruteraan mendakwa, tumpuan utama adalah membangunkan projek sumber tenaga baru di Ukraine.

Antaranya, pembinaan loji janakuasa termal biojisim di Ivankiv.

Loji berkenaan akan membakar serpihan dan debu kayu untuk menghasilkan tenaga elektrik.