On March 21, 2019, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum hosted traditional events dedicated to the awarding of the Regional Awardin the sphere of architecture, heraldry, vexillology, and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko. This year events were dedicated to the 153rd anniversary of a talented architect who is among the creators of architectural gems of the city center of Kropyvnytskyi.
    In 2019, the Regional Award named after Yakiv Pauchenko was awarded just in one nomination “decorative and applied art”. A master of decorative and applied art Liudmyla Kryvenko has become the laureate for creative works in the techniques of patchwork, scrap sewing, and art-quilling that are based on folk traditions of textile mosaics that are actively brought into modern decorative and applied arts as folklore romanticism, original compositions made from fabrics of different texture using traditional methods of ancient folk, modern, and author’s techniques that has been shown at the national, international, and foreign exhibitions and festivals of patchwork and textile art.
    Justrewards – a certificate, pecuniaryreward, honorary prize of the Regional Council and the Regional State Administration, statuette of "Steppeeagle", were given by Oleksandr Chornoivanenko, the head of the Regional Council, the chairperson of the competition committee of the award, and Svitlana Lobanova, deputy head of the Regional State Administration.
    Tetiana Storozhenko, a nominee for the award, master of pysanka art, member of the National Union of the Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine, was presented with a certificate of acknowledgment. The artist submitted her creative work-reconstruction “Collection of pysanky (decorated Easter egg) of Yelisavethrad povit (district) Kherson huberniia (governorate), collected by V.Yastrebovbetween 1889-1895”, made in the traditional wax technique of decorative egg painting.
    During the official events, the artists were congratulated by the head of the Department of Regional Development, Town Planning, and Architecture of the Regional State Administration Viktoriia Kulikova, who also gave certificates of acknowledgment to both masters, pointing out the high artistic level of their works. Also, the Chairperson of the Board of the Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, by the way, a two-time laureate of the Award named after Yakiv Pauchenko, Liudmyla Kharlamova congratulated the masters. She came to the museum together with the students of the College of Construction from the Department of Architectural Design and Interior.
    Everyone present enjoyed the performance of Alina Leontiienko, the teacher of the Music School No.1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus. She performed a work by a prominent Ukrainian composer Borys Liatoshynski Prelude No.3 from the cycle Shevchenko’s Ordre, that became a significant accent of the musical event as a tribute to the Great Kobza Player, as well as, a continuation of a tradition of a talented architect Yakiv Pauchenko, whose house was filled with the atmosphere of creativity and art. It is in Yakiv Pauchenko’s house that his nephew, later a famous painter and pedagogue, Oleksandr Osmerkin spent his childhood.