The Calendar. Helper, Souvenir, Adornment, Heritage

Every year, in the moment when the last day of the departing year passes into the first day of the one to come, we open a new calendar that will keep us company for 365 days. By a calendar we mean a periodical reference publication in the form of a table or a journal, with a numbered reckoning of all the days, month by month.

 

A Ukrainian calendar

What to See in Kropyvnytskyi, a Pearl in Ukraine's Heart

Kropyvnytskyi, with a population of 250 thousand, lies in the very centre of Ukraine, 300 kilometres from the capital, at the crossing of roads of European significance. In the regional centre there operate a railway station, an airport, two bus stations, more than a dozen higher-education institutions, museums, theatres, and parks, but the former Yelysavethrad can hardly be called a popular tourist mecca.

 

Kropyvnytskyi. The railway station

27 March, Theatre Day. A Tour of Ukraine's Theatres

Theatre Day, founded by the International Theatre Institute under UNESCO, has been celebrated all over the world since 1961. On 27 March congratulations go to all who are involved in creating vivid spectacles in the temples of Melpomene — stage directors, artists, actors, costumiers, decorators, producers, cashiers, sound engineers, cloakroom attendants and all theatre-lovers, spectators and students of theatrical colleges. And although this holiday is considered professional, and the date is not marked in red in the calendars, for the workers of the stage this day is always a working one, and the spectator is the most welcome guest.

Lviv. Solomiya Krushelnytska National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet