On July 1, 2021, an exhibition “Architects and Architectural Studios in the Kirovohrad Oblast” to Architect Day of Ukraine was opened in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The exhibition is presented on the museum website in the section Some Exhibitions. It is the creative project of the museum and Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, organized to Architecture Day of Ukraine that was initiated to support the initiatives of architects and city planners, their creative unions, workers of design organizations, and local city planning and architecture agencies according to the Decree of President of Ukraine from June 17, 1995 No. 456/95 “On Architecture Day of Ukraine” and is celebrated annually on June 1.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of the works created between the 1990s and 2010th by the leading architects in Kropyvnytskyi – members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine among whom are the laureates of the Regional Award in Architecture, Heraldry, Vexillology, Decorative and Applied Arts named after Yakiv Pauchenko in the nomination “architecture”. These are the architectural projects of Merited Architect of Ukraine Yurii Peniaz, Iryna Drofa, Hanna Kovtun, Tetiana Peniaz, Alla Pyrohova (LLC “Modern”), Volodymyr Rak, Tetiana Rak, Roman Rak, and Rodion Rak (LLC “ABRIS” Lybideia”), interior projects of Nataliia Strazhnikova, as well as architectural drawings and landscapes with the monuments of architecture by Iryna Kukharenko who has presented personal exhibitions of the author’s works “Vernissage” (2012), “World of Watercolors” (2017), and “Graphic Works by Iryna Kukharenko” to Architecture Day of Ukraine (2020) in the museum.
    Architects from Kropyvnytskyi visited the event – the participants of the exhibition and the head of the Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, Merited Architect of Ukraine Yurii Peniaz, who read the letter from the National Union of Architects of Ukraine congratulating on Architecture Day of Ukraine and handed the Certificate of Appreciation and Letter of Acknowledgement to the museum director Vita Chernova and the leading researcher Andrii Nadezhdin for the active cooperation with the Regional Center of Architects.
    The curator of the exhibition, leading researcher of the museum, Merited Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadezhdin demonstrated the exposition of the virtual exhibition online, handed the Letter of Congratulations from the museum, and presented a themed booklet of the exhibition to each participant. The architects signed one of the booklets as well as the poster of the exhibition for the museum.
    At the end of the event, the architects enjoyed taking photos near the portrait of a talented Yelisavethrad architect Yakiv Pauchenko in the memorial hall, as well as outside his great house, which is currently a museum to his nephew, Professor of Painting Oleksandr Osmerkin.