Commemorating Leonid Havrysh, the former head of Volodarka, the Ukrainian market leader in the production and sale of classic men’s clothing, honorary professor and member of the Supervisory Board of KNUTD, on October 3, his birthday, the winners of the award named after him were honored.

The Leonid Havrysh Prize was established in 2018 and is awarded to artists for their achievements in various forms of art and culture. This is no coincidence, as Leonid Havrysh’s life is very colorful: a philanthropist and patron of the arts in the Vinnytsia region, Honorary Citizen of Vinnytsia, Honored Worker of Industry of Ukraine, Honorary Doctor of Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, Academician of the Ukrainian Technological Academy – and these are not the only life and career achievements of Leonid Tarasovych.

In his office – now the Leonid Havrysh Museum – the award was presented to the winners by the Rector of KNUTD, Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Academician Ivan Gryshchenko and the chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volodarka JSC, member of the Supervisory Board of KNUTD, Leonid Tarasovych’s son, Roman Havrysh.

This year’s prizes were awarded to Yulia Konovalova, an employee of the Pohrebyshche Local History Museum, and Oleksandr Hordievych, a photojournalist at the My Vinnytsia Publishing House and Honored Journalist of Ukraine. Yulia was awarded for her work in local history and ethnography, achievements in fine arts, and Oleksandr for creating a gallery of portraits of prominent Vinnytsia residents and an image of the picturesque Podillia in artistic photography.

Rector of KNUTD Ivan Gryshchenko congratulated the winners, thanked them for their work and wished them inspiration for further creative achievements.

And the memory of Leonid Havrysh will live on thanks to the initiators of the award, the staff of the Volodarka garment factory.

06.10.2023