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Names from Ukraine’s cultural sphere are also well known. For instance, the brilliant opera singer Solomia Krushelnytska conquered the world’s opera stage in the first decade of the 20th century. Most recently, the Ukrainian singer Ruslana Lyzhychko broke into the world of music when winning the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest. Many Ukrainian artists have gained recognition far beyond the borders of their country. Our young artists are spreading the fame of Ukrainian arts schools. One work of art by the young Ukrainian artist, Kateryna Kosianenko, recently won the first prize at the Autumn Exhibition (Salon D’Automne) in Paris. The film of the young director Ihor Strembytsky “The Wayfarers” won the “Golden Palm” of the Cannes Film Festival. We are certain that Ukrainian sports and cultural stars will definitely enrich not only Ukraine’s, but the world’s treasury.
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Solomia Krushelnytska. Voice that belongs to the mankind
In the first decade of the 20th century, only four singers were renowned kings of opera: Enrico Caruso, Mattia Battistini, Titta Ruffo, and Fiodor Shaliapin. And only one woman was honoured to join them – a genius Ukrainian singer Solomia Krushelnytska >>
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Мikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov (in Ukrainian: Bulhakov) is a unique phenomenon in 20th century Russian culture. His famous novels the "The White Guard" and "The Master and Margarita", as well as his story the "A Dog’s Heart" have become subjects of admiration by many generations of readers >>
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Olexandr Dovzhenko. Controversial film director
The best Ukrainian silent motion pictures were Olexandr Dovzhenko's three films, which won him the reputation as “the first poet of cinema” – “Zvenyhora”, “Arsenal”, and particularly “Zemlia” (The Land, 1930) >>
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Kazimir Malevich. А new world of pure forms
Even if you are not expert in the arts you might have heard of Kazimir Malevich and his ‘black square on a white background’. This picture was considered truly revolutionary because it introduced world to the notion of pure forms >>
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«Battleship Potiomkin» of Sergey Eisenstein
Sergey Eisenstein was not born in Ukraine and it wasn’t here where he started his career as a film director. But the movie which brought the director world fame and which became a classic of world cinema was shot at the Odesa film studio and tells about historical events which took place in Odesa >>
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Sergey Paradzhanov
The world fame showered at Sergey Paradzhanov after screening in 1964 the film ‘Tini zabutykh predkiv’ (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors), the adaptation of renowned Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's novel >>
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