Mykolayiv: Private Territory Has Won
The results of the Audience Choice Contest were announced at the exhibition of the best works from The Day’s Fifth International Photo Contests at the Mykolayiv City Exhibition Hall.
Three hundred ballots were distributed among the spectators, with which they could vote for the works they liked most. Last Monday the voting boxes were open, and representative of the exhibition’s organizers, deputy head of the Ukrainian Press Group Valentyn Pustovoit announced the voting results in the presence of local journalists.
Mykolayiv residents have given most voices (47) to Mykola Lazarenko’s Private Territory (in the photo). The author of this photograph, The Day’s photojournalist, received an audio system from the Mykolayiv City Administration, which was passed to the newspaper’s representative by Mayor Volodymyr Chaika. Incidentally, the Mykolayiv choice has coincided with the one by The Day’s editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna: earlier Private Territory was marked with her special prize at the Day 2003 photo contest. Generally, our colleague’s works There is Nothing Better in God’s World than the Dnipro, If You Only Where at Home... and A-Mark where mentioned most frequently on the ballots.
Mykolayiv residents also favored other photo artists’ works. Here are the ones that formed the top five together with Mykola Lazarenko’s photo: Violin Player by Anatoly Pokhyliuk (31), In the Mood by Volodymyr Tukhvatshyn (28), True Sancta Simplicitas by Vasyl Artiushenko (21), and Yevhen Kravs’s Ostap Khmil. Sknyliv (18).
Mayor Chaika thanked the exhibition’s organizers, saying, in part, that The Day is appreciated by Mykolayiv residents for its impartial coverage of events in our country and abroad, and expressing his hope that this Day’s action in Mykolayiv would not the last one.
In addition, as a part of the Books from The Day’s Library to Children action, the Mykolayiv Oblast State Administration and the City Council purchased two- volume collections including Ukrayina Incognita and Dvi Rusi [The Two Rus’s], which were published in a limited edition and are dedicated to blank pages in the history of Ukraine and its relations with Russia. The books’ presentation in Mykolayiv oblast was held during the photo exhibition’s opening ceremony. Deputy mayor Tamila Buhayenko passed the purchased books to pupils of the Boarding School No. 3 for their school library. Representatives of the Boarding School No. 5 also received the two-volumes. Moreover, the books will given to libraries and educational institutions of the city and oblast.
The Day’s action was covered by all major television channels of Mykolayiv.
