The festival was held at the Forest Club Sherwood hotel and restaurant complex. The event was attended by well-known Ukrainian wineries: TM My Wine, SHABO, BOLGRAD, Cotnar, Villa Tinta, and Vladyslav Zakrevsky’s winery. Also represented were Honey Badger liqueurs and tinctures, White Church Distillery, Osnova cheese factory, Zinka TM, Kozatski Kozyrni Syry, producers of meat chips and snacks Snacks by Bandera, and others.
Interesting lectures for visitors were held at the festivals. Visitors were introduced to the world of winemaking: Liudmyla Boiko, chief technologist of the Honey Badger family enterprise; Stepan and Olha Kutsipak, owners of the Snacks by Bandera brand; Natalia Blahopoluchna, president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Winemakers and Sommeliers, head of the first Ukrainian sommelier school “Master Class”; Bogdan Panchuk, brand ambassador of Leleka Wines; Eduard Gorodetsky, founder of Tiras Winery; Natalia Burlachenko, sommelier and brand ambassador of Vinos de la Luz; Vita Oliynyk, representative of Zinka TM. The event was also attended by Ricardo Fernandez Nunez, the owner of Vinos de la Luz group of companies.
In addition to wine lectures, visitors were able to attend a master class “How to open champagne with a glass or modern sabrage” by Mykola Blagopoluchny, head of the Master Class sommelier school and director of the All-Ukrainian Association of Winemakers and Sommeliers.
The highlight of the first day of the festival was a soulful concert by Ukrainian singer PIANOBOY.
On July 30, the festival hosted a roundtable discussion on the development of winemaking and viticulture in Ukraine during the war. The participants were Ihor Vishtak, Director of the Crop Production Department of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine; Volodymyr Pechko, Head of the UKRSADVINPROM NGO; Iryna Kovaleva, Director of the V.E. Tairov Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Maksym Urakin, founder of the Experts Club. Maxim Urakin, founder of the analytical center “Club of Experts”, publisher, marketing director of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency; Yegor Belov, chef-sommelier of the InterContinental Kyiv hotel, winner of the All-Ukrainian Sommelier Competition 2018; Dmytro Saprykin, brand ambassador of Alcoline and Oleg Antipin, brand ambassador of SHABO; Konstantin Tintulov, commercial director and co-owner of Vinhol Oksamytne LLC.
The roundtable was also attended by Dmytro Natalukha, a Ukrainian politician and public figure, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the IX convocation, lawyer, human rights activist, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the IX convocation. Member of the parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People political party. Deputy Member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Co-chair of the group on interparliamentary relations with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The roundtable ended with a pre-premiere screening of the movie Wounded Land. This is a documentary about the stories of Ukrainian winemakers who have suffered from Russian aggression. The film was directed and co-produced by Roman Zayats, the founder of the Heartland project.
The festival has a charitable component. Charity auctions and fundraisers were held for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The event raised UAH 142,050! The main lot of the festival – a unique wine from Vinos de La Luz with a label of Ivan Marchuk’s painting – was sold for UAH 120 thousand. The funds raised were distributed as follows:
UAH 120,000 was donated for the treatment of cancer to Serhiy Kovalenko, a veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a well-known winemaker.
UAH 22050 was donated to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Consumer tasting was held during the two days of the event. Visitors of the event chose the best wine. Wines from TM My Wine won the Consumer Choice competition.
The event was organized by Focus event.
Cherkassy regional military administration on the eve of Rosh Hashanah recommends Hasidim to refrain from visiting Uman, but takes measures to strengthen security measures, according to the head of Cherkassy OVA Igor Taburets.
“In a month – Rosh ha-Shana. We recommend pilgrims to refrain from visiting Uman as much as possible, given the war, regular massive shelling of our country and possible provocations from Russia,” the head of the OVA said in a message in his Telegram channel on Tuesday.
At the same time, as Taburets notes, some of the believers, as last year, will still decide to come, so the authorities are taking the necessary measures to strengthen security measures for guests and locals. “Today on this issue held a meeting of the special commission with the participation of the Deputy Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel in Ukraine Mrs. Liron Finkelstein,” – said Taburets.
“First of all, we coordinate the work on security measures. They, like last year, will be strengthened . …We are working on other areas, having the experience of previous celebrations. We are talking about the provision of medical care, the functioning of catering establishments, the work of utility workers, anti-epidemic measures and others. The key priority is unchanged – the safety of local residents and visitors,” Taburets wrote.
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, which is celebrated for two consecutive days on the new moon of the fall month of Tishrei according to the Jewish calendar. From this day begins the counting of the days of the new Jewish year.
The V Summer All-Ukrainian Boxing Gymnasium took place in Uman, where boys and juniors from Ukraine and Kyiv took part.
The following boxers became champions from Kyiv:
🥇 Kirill Tkachuk, 2010, 1st category, 42 kg
🥇 Mykola Dobrolyubov, 2009, 1st category, 66 kg
🥇 Pasichenko Oleksandr, 2008, KMS, 48 kg
🥇 Adrian Krasnopilskyi, 2008, KMS, 54 kg
🥈 Konstantin Gayevsky, 2009, 1st category, 54 kg
🥉 Maidukov Mark, 2009, 1st category, 48 kg
🥉 Kravchenko Mykyta, 2010, 1st category, 57 kg
The President of the Kyiv City Federation Oleksandr Nehoda congratulated the young Kyiv residents on their victory.
“We have a good team and systematic work, which is aimed at constantly holding open rings where our boxers can gain combat practice,” said Oleksandr Nehoda.
According to the president of the boxing federation, the next events that athletes and coaches are preparing for are the World Gymnasium in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), which will take place on August 19-27, as well as the European Championships in Maribor (Slovenia), which will take place on August 15-26, 2023.
The gymnasium is held to stimulate the development of physical culture and sports among students of general secondary education institutions of the II-III levels.
About 5,000 Hasidic pilgrims have already arrived in Uman, Cherkasy region to celebrate the New Year according to the Jewish calendar (Rosh Hashanah), which this year will take place from 6 to 8 September, according to the Wikka Cherkasy publication.
“This year, pilgrims travel to Ukraine in advance, because last year, due to enhanced anti-epidemic measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, not everyone was able to attend the celebration of Rosh Hashanah in Uman,” the message says.
According to the newspaper, head of the State Migration Service in Cherkasy region Ivan Shapran paid a working visit to Uman and coordinated with the staff of the Uman department of the institution further steps to prevent and identify violators of migration legislation.
Israeli citizens can use a visa-free travel regime while on the territory of Ukraine for up to 90 days within 180 days.
The arrival of 5,000 to 10,000 Hasidim in the city of Uman, Cherkasy region to celebrate the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah is expected in 2020, and this causes great concern both within Ukraine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Oleh Nemchinov said.
“Today, a meeting of the State Commission on Manmade Disaster and Emergency Response was held. One of the key issues that were discussed was the planned mass pilgrimage of Breslov Chasidim in September 2020 to the city of Uman, Cherkasy region to celebrate Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year),” Nemchinov wrote on his Facebook page.
In this regard, the commission instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strengthen communication to inform foreign citizens about the restrictions in force in Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs to strengthen and ensure security during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the State Border Guard Service to develop a booklet of stay in Ukraine and distribute it at the crossing Ukrainian border, as well as inform about a possible ban on entry to Ukraine for several years in case of violation of lockdown.
“In addition, at the meeting of the commission, it was noted that in 2020, Ukrainian Christians and Muslims abstained from mass events during the celebration of their largest religious holidays,” Nemchinov said.
Raben Ukraine logistics company, a subsidiary of the international logistics company Raben Group (the Netherlands), has opened a new distribution center (cross dock) in Uman (Cherkasy region), the company’s press service has said.
The Uman distribution center, the 24th in the company’s network, will serve Uman, part of Cherkasy, Vinnytsia and Kirovohrad regions, and will make it possible to significantly reduce time for delivery of goods.
“Uman has a convenient geographical location, because it is located at the intersection of two major highways: E95, connecting the north and the south of the country, and E50, connecting the west and the east. The opening of a distribution center in Uman will help reduce delivery time by 24 hours,” director general of Raben Ukraine Inna Ocheretna said.
According to her, in the future the delivery of products requiring a special temperature regime from the new transportation center is being considered, which will cover the northern part of Odesa and Mykolaiv regions with services.
Raben Ukraine LLC, a subsidiary of the international logistics company Raben Group, has been operating in the logistics market since 2003. Its branches are located in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, and Rivne. It has about 70,000 square meters of warehouse space (including regions) and almost 600 vehicles in the fleet.
