On March 1, 2021, during the events dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the gallery “Elisavetgrad”, a well-known philanthropist Mykola Tsukanov handed to the collection of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum art presents – paintings and printed issues: a painting by Chinese artist Liu Jian “Osmerkin Museum”, created by the author, then a Ph.D. student of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushynsky during the joint art project of the gallery “Elisavetgrad” and the museum “Art Plein air – 2017” dedicated to the 125th anniversary of .O.Osmerkin” and which was displayed at the museum exhibition on May 20 within the cultural and art event “A Visit to the Museum” to International Museum Day; pastel drawing “Moshny” (1977) made by a well-known sculptor-medalist from the town of Svitlovodsk, the Kirovohrad Oblast, Viacheslav Popov – a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and International Art Medal Federation, a laureate of the Regional Award in Fine Art and Study of Art named after O.O.Osmerkin in the nomination “national tradition” in 2013; catalog “Sea of Watercolors” of the Third all-Ukrainian and International Exhibition and Biennale in Odesa in 2020. A photo of O.O.Osmerkin and a reproduction of his watercolor painting “Nude” from the museum collection were published; multimedia edition on CD “Photo Archives of Andrii Dibrovnyi and Vasyl Kovpak from the archives of the Gallery “Yelisavethrad” which presents the history of our town then Kirovohrad, and now Kropyvnytskyi, in photo chronicles.
    It is not the first gift to the museum from Mykola Tsukanov – a well-known gallery owner, active popularize of Ukrainian visual art, an organizer of the national art plein airs, competitions of children’s drawing known beyond Ukraine, the author of printed issues about modern fellow artists: “Remedy for Depression”, “Provincial Newspaper”, a series of albums “Palette of Steppe Land” for which he became a laureate if the Regional Award in Fine Art and Study of Art named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in the nomination “study and history of art” in 2016.
    Mykola Tsukanov adds to the museum collection and archives of our town and is engaged in extremely important educational activities in the sphere of modern Ukrainian visual art.