The winners of the M. V. Hohol Annual City Award were three students of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”:
- Viktoriia Popova, a student of the Faculty of Humanities of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”. the winner of the IV award in the middle age category;
- Rostyslav Taranenko, a student of the Education and Research Institute of Information Technology and Mechanotronics of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, winner of the II award in the middle age category;
- Anna Boiko, a student of the Faculty of Humanities of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, winner of the III award in the older age category.
The winners were congratulated by the Secretary of Poltava City Council Oleksandr Shamota, the First Deputy of the Mayor of Poltava Ihor Fedii, the Deputy Mayor of Poltava Serhii Rekotov. The winners were given the Honored Diplomas of the Executive Board of Poltava City Council, monetary awards and souvenirs. The names of all the winners were published at the website of the city council.
“All of our students are extremely talented personalities, almost everyone write prose or poetry. Anna Boiko sings very well, writes poetry, songs and music for them, and, as the university stage have become too small for her, we decided to submit her work for the M. V. Hohol Award. It is crucial for a philologist to have the feel of the language, to be able to express one’s own thoughts; the words have to sound like music and find feedback in the hearts of others. Our students can do that,” the scientific advisor, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Germanic Philology and Translation of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” Anna Pavelieva commented.
Mykola Hohol is still an inspiring figure to modern people for creating literary and artistic masterpieces, and that’s how the poetry of one of the winners appeared.
“Who hasn’t re-read ‘The Night Before Christmas’ during the winter holidays? Who doesn’t enjoy looking at the wheat fields or the steppe driving past them in the twilight? Who is not mesmerized by the forest music at dawn? There is so much beautiful around us. The positive emotions are overwhelming. This is when I put my feelings onto paper. At the end, a few pieces of poetry were ready, and we decided to submit them to the competition,” the third-year Philology student Anna Boiko commented.
Congratulations to the winners! May they reach new creative achievements!
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