
Ukrainian Pysanka and Kobzar - Lirnyk traditions may be inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists next year
In 2023, for the first time, Ukraine prepared and submitted three nominations for inscription on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. Two of them will be considered next year: the international nomination to the Representative List, prepared jointly with the Republic of Estonia, "Ukrainian Pysanka: Tradition and Art", and the nomination to the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices "Practice for the Safeguarding of the Kobzar-Lirnyk Tradition". The nomination "Technology of white-on-white embroidery in Reshetylivka, Poltava region" will be considered in the 2025 cycle.
"I hope that the UNESCO Lists will be replenished with our two elements of intangible cultural heritage at the end of 2024. Such a decision will show that Ukrainian heritage is a source of invincibility and courage of the people in the struggle for independence and the future," said Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.
Earlier, the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO) has already been inscribed with: Petrykivka Decorative Painting as a Phenomenon of Ukrainian Ornamental Folk Art; Tradition of Kosiv Painted Ceramics; Ornek - Crimean Tatar Ornament and Knowledge about it. The List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding includes the following elements: Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovsk region and the culture of the cooking of Ukrainian borshch.