PRESENTATION "UMAN WRITERS"

The presentation of newly published handbook-anthology "Uman Writers” took place in the assembly hall of the new pedagogical university building. Among the attendants - not only students and lecturers, but university, city and district librarians, representatives of Education Department and methodical office, press, Natural History Museum and, of course, teachers.

Handbook is truly unique, because of nearly three hundred pages that contain the newest information about literary men, whose life and work were connected with historical Uman region means with current Uman, Mankivka, Talne, Zhashkiv and Khrystynivka region. It includes biographies and fragments of more than one hundred writers’ literary works. They are collected by the lecturers of Ukrainian Literature and Ukrainology Chair of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University. The main initiator of publication was the Chair Head, professor Natalya P. Syvachuk.

Authors, submitted to the handbook-anthology, are very different. Well-known compiler of one of the first Russian-Ukrainian dictionaries Myhailo Komarov and completely forgotten Klym Tkach, "official" playwright laureate Academician Oleksandr Korniychuk and died in Stalin's torture chambers, Petro Lisovyi, the Soviet system apologist Ivan Kulyk and "politically illiterate" (because she didn’t recognized that system) Dokiya Humenna; traveler and poet Stanislav Trembetskyi and life bedridden in his poor hut the poet Grygoryi Savchuk, etc.: all these different people are united by their involvement in Uman region, its nature, language, culture, customs, features of life.

The director of the Institute of Philology and Social Science, Associate Professor Valentyna Koval opened the meeting.

On the stage, but the leading word (Associate Professor Maryna Pavlenko and student Victoria Myhalchuk) performances of poets, whose creativity is represented in the anthology are sounded: Olga and Volodymyr Todchuk, Honoured Journalist of Ukraine Valentyna A. Kozytska, Volodymyr Cheredaiko, Lyubov Boychuk, Petro Polishchuk, Nina Myhailova, Natalia Zarudnyak, Vasyl Denysyuk, Olga Pavlenko.

Creative Tyholoz family from Talyanky of Talne district in the handbook was presented by only one representative - Sergyii Tyholoz (his son Bogdan Tyholoz and daughter-in-law Natalia Tyholoz are well-known in Ukraine for their scientific literary exploration), and his performance was a real discovery of this holiday.

From the youngest writers presented in anthology (among them - well-known writers Vira Baldynyuk, Oksana Luschevska and Yulia Gonchar) talented poetess Sofia Krymovska represented these writers.

Myhailo V. Redko and Mykola O. Zarudnyak (teachers of Antonivka and Yurkivka schools) performed songs and amateur band "Sofia" (leader Vasyl Semenchuk) performed it as well.

The meeting was finished by the head of methodical office Inna Trohymenko and the head of Ukrainian Literature and Ukrainology Chair of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, professor Natalya P. Syvachuk who said many good words about this extremely useful book, and about lecturers of Ukrainian Literature and Ukrainology Chair who have made many efforts to prepare the publication and its decent presentation.

MEETING WITH LARYSA SHABALINA

The meeting with poetess Larysa Shabalina was like a poetry holiday for students and lecturers of Ukrainian Philology Department. This famous poetess was born in a well-known in Uman region teachers family (father - Vasyl G. Shabalin (1938-2004) – teacher of physics and astronomy, an excellent teacher of USSR public education, a teacher and methodist; mother - Svitlana A. Shabalina (born 1940) an excellent teacher of USSR public education, a teacher and methodist) and that is nice that Laryssa is a graduate of Uman pedagogical university. She works as a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, fine arts, and since 2004 – as deputy director on educational work in Ladyzhyn school. The poems from poetic collection of L. Shabalina “Probudzennya” are sounded at the meeting (2001), and also - her new poetry. Particularly the audience was fascinated and touched by the songs performed by Larysa. An appropriate " insertion " was the speech of Larysa’s mother Svitlana, who shared the moments with her teachers' work, gave some professional advices and inspired students for future work in the school.

TO VASYL STEFANYK ANNIVERSARY

On May 12 university literary association named after Mykola Bazhan held a solemn meeting on the occasion of the 140-th anniversary of the famous novelist Vasyl Stefanyk (Born on May 14, 1871 in Rusov village, now Snyatyn district of Ivano-Frankivsk region).

The atmosphere of the event was heartfelt and soulful. Lecturers of Ukrainian Literature and Ukrainology Chair were speaking about Vasyl Stefanyk lightening even some very personal details of his life and work. Students were expressing their opinions about novelist’s works. At first, they, together with Maryna S. Pavlenko, who in her speech tried to reach mystery stories of Stefanyk, determined the basic features and secrets of his poetics, in particular - deeply psychological novel "Leseva familiya”. Then the students and lecturers were listening the analysis of partial texts of Stefanyk (including "Klenovyi lystky" and "Ditocha prygoda"), made by Tetyana Lopushan. Leonid V. Kozynskyi was speaking about Stefanyk as well. The audience tried to find an optimism in the works of Stefanyk (as they often show hard life of the Ukrainian peasantry), and, this task was managed quite successfully.

At the time, Vasyl Stefanyk said: "I wrote to set and pull strings of our peasant soul to create a great music of Beethoven. I did it successfully, and others - is literature ". It seems that after this meeting as these words can be paraphrased: the music of Stefanyk - was heard, and others - understanding of all its deeps and the implementation of some young poets mysteries of Stefanyk in own creativity - is a matter of the future.