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Ukraine’s Traditional Vyshyvanka Embroidered Shirt Submitted for UNESCO Cultural Heritage Recognition

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Ukraine has submitted the tradition of the Ukrainian embroidered shirt, the vyshyvanka, for inclusion on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Deputy Prime Minister and Culture Minister Tetyana Berezhna announced on 21 May, marked in Ukraine as Vyshyvanka Day. The vyshyvanka has long been regarded as one of the most recognizable symbols of Ukrainian national identity. Different regions of Ukraine developed…

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The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine has submitted the dossier “Vyshyvanka in Ukraine: a socio-cultural tradition” to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This was reported by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. The UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee will consider the Ukrainian dossier on the inclusion of vyshyvanka in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritag…

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The UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage will consider the dossier “Embroidery in Ukraine: a Socio-Cultural Tradition” for inclusion in the list.

This was announced by the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Tetiana Berezhna.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to UNESCO submitted the dossier to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage. After that, the Ukrainian nomination should be considered by international representatives. Embroidered shirts are one of the strongest symbols of Ukrainian identity. It…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine submitted to the UNESCO commission a proposal for the inclusion of embroidery in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind, which is reported on the website of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. The Vice-Premier for Humanitarian Policy, the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Tatiana Berzhnya, noted that the embroidery tradition is one of the most common and living forms of Ukr…

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