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24 February 2021
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February 25th marks the 150th birthday anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian writer, public figure Lesia Ukrainka. The interest in her work does not fade even today. People say about her: "a noble lady, an urban European integrator, an unappealable patriot, an intellectual, a feminist" ...

And how do SumDU students know Lesia Ukrainka?

Not remaining indifferent to the writer's work, the 2nd year students of the Medical Institute and freshmen of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology took part in a poetic art challenge to celebrate the anniversary of Lesia Ukrainka.

SumDU has joined the project "All-Ukrainian flash mob of video readings", launched in 2019, for the second time. The library together with the media content production group of the University Media Center created a video in which students recited Lesia Ukrainka's poetry: "Contra spem spero!" (I hope without hope!) and "Stoiala ia i slukhala vesnu” (I stood and listened to spring) to the charming music of Myroslav Skoryk.

The poems of Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach-Kvitka) are familiar to everyone from an early age, her biography is studied in every school, people talk, write about her, and discuss her… The author of the famous poetic, prose, and dramatic works, had a flair for music, knew 7 languages, practiced translation, read European literature in the original. At the age of 19 she wrote a textbook "Ancient History of Oriental Nations". She was a principled feminist in life and literature. For her extraordinary strength of spirit and firmness of character, Ivan Franko called Lesia Ukrainka "the only man in the whole modern Ukraine."