{"id":272977,"date":"2019-09-27T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/na-sumshhini-selo-vidznachilo-334-roki-z-dnja-zasnuvannja\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T23:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:45:15","slug":"na-sumshhini-selo-vidznachilo-334-roki-z-dnja-zasnuvannja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/na-sumshhini-selo-vidznachilo-334-roki-z-dnja-zasnuvannja\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Sumy region, a village marked the 334th anniversary of its founding."},"content":{"rendered":"
The picturesque village of Yunakivka is located on the border of the Sumy region with Russia \u2014 only 6 kilometers from the border. The village has a glorious centuries-old history. In the 19th century, Yunakivka was the center of the Yunakivka volost, and in the 1920s it served as a district center. Today, all this is history; however, the village still has important strategic significance, as the \u201cYunakivka\u201d border checkpoint is located here. The village is home to hardworking and talented people who know how to work and how to enjoy their leisure.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, Village Day in Yunakivka is celebrated on September 21 \u2014 the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God. From early morning, the area near the village House of Culture, located in the center of the village in a picturesque park, is lively and crowded. Everyone can find something they enjoy \u2014 music plays and songs are sung on the porch of the House of Culture, visitors can enjoy shashlik and other tasty food and drinks, buy sweets, take photos near the \u201cI Love Yunakivka\u201d stand, chat with acquaintances and guests, try their skills at the shooting range, and more. For children, there is plenty of fun \u2014 various attractions, competitions, trampolines, and cotton candy, which, by the way, was enjoyed not only by children but also by adults.<\/p>\n

Village head Hryhorii Skliarov welcomes guests, responds to greetings, talks with fellow villagers, and eventually invites everyone to the House of Culture to continue the celebration. The cozy and fairly large hall, which has been renovated with new windows and stage curtains and equipped with new drapes, fills almost completely. The ceremonial part is opened by the ensemble of the local House of Culture, performing a song with lyrics written by Hryhorii Skliarov. Yes, indeed, the local head not only skillfully manages the village but also writes poetry and plays the guitar well \u2014 he has a creative talent. For Village Day, he wrote a new poem, which he performed on stage, visibly nervous, and was greeted with sincere applause.<\/p>\n

Certificates of merit and gifts from the local authorities were awarded to village residents who work for the benefit of the community \u2014 truly worthy people. Afterwards, the head of the executive office of the district council, Mykola Okhrimenko, also presented letters of appreciation from the Sumy District Council and the district administration, and the head of the \u201cIskra\u201d enterprise, Anatolii Kushch, honored the best as well.<\/p>\n

The villagers were congratulated by agrarian Serhii Karpenko, who presented a football and expressed hope that a strong football team would also appear in Yunakivka. The deputy of the regional council and chief physician of the central district clinical hospital, Volodymyr Potseluiev, also came as a guest bearing gifts. He presented an icon as well as a children\u2019s computer for the youngsters. By the way, it is worth noting that Yunakivka has managed to preserve its medical outpatient clinic \u2014 there is a doctor, nurses, and an emergency medical aid point. Therefore, if anything happens (God forbid), villagers can always rely on the help of their medical staff, whom the local authorities also honored with letters of appreciation. And of course, one cannot fail to mention those who helped organize this celebration and who always respond to requests for assistance \u2014 local agrarians Anatolii Zakharchenko, Borys Tkachenko, and the same Anatolii Kushch.<\/p>\n

After the ceremonial part concluded, the musical program began \u2014 local amateur performers of various age groups took to the stage, as well as guests from Malyi Vystorop and Korovyntsi. The guests from Korovyntsi especially energized the audience \u2014 laureates of numerous regional and all-Ukrainian competitions: the folk song ensemble \u201cTernytsia,\u201d the male vocal ensemble \u201cKoloryt,\u201d a women\u2019s vocal ensemble, and soloist Diana Teslyk. This impressive artistic delegation was led by the village head of Korovyntsi, Serhii Shylo, who also sings in the ensemble. From the stage, he sincerely congratulated the residents of Yunakivka on the holiday and wished them all the best.<\/p>\n

Thus, Village Day was a great success! From the bottom of our hearts, we wish the residents of Yunakivka all the very best \u2014 as the saying goes, may it be from dew and water!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The picturesque village of Yunakivka is located on the border of the Sumy region with Russia \u2014 only 6 kilometers from the border. The village has a glorious centuries-old history. In the 19th century, Yunakivka was the center of the Yunakivka volost, and in the 1920s it served as a district center. Today, all this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[30696],"tags":[30791],"special-cat":[],"top_slider":[],"class_list":["post-272977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sumy-region","tag-sumskyj-rajon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272977"},{"taxonomy":"special-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/special-cat?post=272977"},{"taxonomy":"top_slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsisumy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_slider?post=272977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}