07 January 2014, 08:30
To the citizens of Cherkasy Oblast
Dear friends!
I sincerely congratulate you on an outstanding event – the 60th establishment anniversary of the Oblast.
Cherkasy Oblast is Ukraine’s heart that pounds in its geographical center on the both banks of Dnipro-Slavuta. It is a home of the apostle of the Ukrainian word and the national philosophy of humanism of Taras Shevchenko.
The life-giving sources of spirituality of Ukrainian people, refreshed by glorious Cossacks’ traditions, lead here to bow to the holy place of Ukrainian people – the Chernecha Mount, where Kobzar has found his eternal rest. They also help truly realize greatness Bohdan Kmelnytskyi, founder of the Ukrainian statehood. For, only here you can feel the depth of filial love to Ukraine with all your heart and soul.
At the same time, Cherkasy Oblast is the center of national revival that possesses an enormous economic potential. Due to the well-developed agricultural sector, Oblast produces a wide spectrum of food products and contains the most powerful chemical enterprises of the country.
Cherkasy region may be especially proud of its talented, sincere, good, hardworking and wise people that establish material and spiritual values and bring up the new generation.
Today I have the opportunity to thank you all for conscious work and personal contribution of each of you into the development of the region. May the number of your achievements increase, may the good things in your life multiply, and may all your dreams and hopes come true!
With all my heart I wish citizens of Cherkasy Oblast sound health, welfare, peace, prosperity and harmony in each family for the years to come.
Volodymyr RYBAK