The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has announced the addition of five new elements to the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. This includes: the tradition of cattail weaving, which is common in the villages of Shchitky and Pysarivka in Vinnytsia Oblast; the tradition of dressing grave crosses in Rivne Polissia; the preparation of the Ukrainian traditional dish “Holubtsi”, which is consumed throughout modern Ukraine and other countries; the culture of traditional Bessarabian sheep breeding, which is common in Odesa Oblast; the tradition of “Vasyliv wreaths” in the village of Lypivka in the Rohatyn community of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Cultural Heritage Expansion
These additions highlight the significance of cultural practices and traditions in Ukraine, which continue to be passed down from generation to generation.
Today, the National List includes 68 elements of Ukraine’s intangible cultural heritage.
Other 63 elements are:
- Tradition of Kosiv painted ceramics
- Krolevets weaving
- Opishnia ceramics
- Petrykivka painting – Ukrainian decorative and ornamental painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovs’k region
- Song tradition of Luka village in Kyiv-Svyatoshynskyi district of Kyiv region
- Technology of white-on-white embroidery in Reshetylivka village, Reshetylivka district, Poltava region
- Traditions of vegetable carpet weaving in Reshetylivka village, Reshetylivka district, Poltava region
- Ornek – Crimean Tatar ornament and knowledge about it
- Tradition of ornamental painting of Bubnivka ceramics
- Bortnytsia
- The tradition of Hutsul Easter eggs
- The tradition of cooking et ayaklak (Karaite meat pie). The experience of the Karaites of Melitopol
- The tradition of the “Driving of the Bush” rite in the village of Svarytsevychi, Dubrovytsia district, Rivne region
- The tradition of decorative painting in the village of Samchyky
- Oleshnya pottery of Chernihiv region
- Artistic woodcarving of Chernihiv region
- Hutsul carols and plesy of Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region
- The custom of performing the Arkan dance with Kovalivka in Pechenizhynska AH
- The art of making a sounding clay toy “Valkivsky whistle”
- Technology of making “wax” wreaths in Vinnytsia region
- The culture of cooking Ukrainian borsch
- Carpathian bed-making
- Borshchiv folk embroidery
- Technology of creating a Klemba shirt “with a flower”
- Easter festivities “Driving the Lord” in the village of Rozkoshivka, Teplytskyi district, Vinnytsia region
- The tradition of making Yavoriv pie
- Creating a three-dimensional spherical Christmas star in the village of Matskovychi
- Knowledge and practice of making Sakhnovshchyna loaf
- Traditional Kharkiv royalty
- New Year’s tradition of Bukovyna malanka
- Features of klezmer music performance in Podilskyi (Kodymskyi) district of Odesa region
- Christmas ritual “Moshu” (male caroling)
- Knowledge, skills, and practices related to the preparation and consumption of Bilya fish soup
- Museum of traditional folk art as an interactive space of intangible cultural heritage of Odesa region
- Milina – knowledge, skills and customs
- Dry masonry construction method
- Buzynnyk – an elderberry dessert dish, traditions of cooking and consumption
- Tradition of cooking a ritual dish “krupky” in the village of Mostove. Mostove village of the Andrushivka community in the Zhytomyr region.
- The art of making a Yavoriv wooden toy
- The custom and technology of preparing festive and memorial porridge in Avdiivka, Donetsk region
- The tradition of wickerwork in the village of Iza, Khust district
- International Christmas Festival “Carols on the Meisles”
- Hutsul bryndzya
- The culture of cooking and consumption of placinda in the villages of the Frumushyka River Valley
- Ukrainian Easter egg: tradition and art
- Bortnytsia in the Kyiv region
- The tradition of straw weaving in the Turia community of Volyn region
- The practice and cultural context of cooking “chiberek” and “yantyk” – traditional dishes of the Crimean Tatars
- Plum lekvar – the tradition of cooking and culture of consumption in Transcarpathia
- The rite of “sowing with a horse in the village of Vistriya, Chortkiv district, Ternopil region”
- Traditional ritual bread of Vinnytsia region
- Kobzarism
- Baking wedding ducklings in the village of Rychky
- The rite of cooking the dish “Zelekivska zlyvanka”
- Nadsyansky dialect in the territory of Mostyshchyna
- Hutsul bodnarka
- The art of making clay patterned textiles
- Bukovyna and Bessarabia taistra: traditions of making and use
- Practice of protection of Horyun culture by the “Museum of Horyun Culture” in the village of Nova Sloboda, Konotop district, Sumy region
- Polissia screwdriver pipe: traditions of making and playing
- Tradition of making and eating ceremonial bread for St. George’s Day in Krynychne village
- Obukhovychi weaving
