The Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry and vexillology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko was initiated by the Kirovohrad Regional Council (resolution from May 31, 2002, № 36) on the application of Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, Kirovohrad Regional Department of Ukrainian Heraldic Society and Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
    The award is given in three nominations: "architecture", "heraldry and vexillology", "decorative and applied arts". The award is given for:
      in the nomination “architecture” - for putting into operation facilities of architecture and town building, including industrial facilities, reconstruction, and restoration of historical monuments and monuments of landscape architecture, construction (restoration) of which has considerably influenced the shaping of the aesthetic environment of communities of the region, has set an example of usage of advanced modern technology, designs, and materials and has a significant historical and architectural value, etc.;
      in the nomination “heraldry and vexillology” - for realized projects: symbols of territorial communities of the region (coat of arms, flags, logos, decorations of different degrees, etc.); renewal of historical symbols of the region (on conditions of practical application by regional territorial communities); symbols which are employed on architectural objects, put into operation in interiors and objects of landscape architecture, have a significant historical and artistic value, etc.;
      in the nomination “decorative and applied arts” – for carpet and textile works, the three-dimensional composition from metal, wood, clay, stone, glass, etc. which are employed on architectural objects put into operation, in interiors and objects of landscape architecture, which have a significant historical and artistic value, etc.
    According to the resolution from August 22, 2017 No.362, the award is given on March 21, on the day of birth of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko. The winners receive the title of “Laureate of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry, vexillology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko”, certificate, pecuniary reward, the honorary prize of the Regional Council and the Regional State Administration - a statuette of "Steppe eagle".

List of the objects (works) submitted for the Regional Award in Architecture,
Heraldry, and Vexillology, and Decorative and Applied Art
named after Yakiv Pauchenko in 2020

in the nomination “heraldry and vexillology”
    Symbol (coat of arms and flag) of the village of Krasnosilka and Rozumivka of Oleksandrivskii district, Kirovohrad region. Author: Biloshapka Vasyl Viktorovych – a member of Ukrainian Heraldry Society, the National Union of Journalists and Local History Experts of Ukraine, Committee of Kirovohrad Regional Council for Implementation of Symbols of communities, villages, towns, district of the region, director Oleksandriia District Local History Museum, a laureate of the Regional Local History Award named after Volodymyr Yastrebov (2002) and the Regional Award in Architecture, Heraldry, and Vexillology, and Decorative and Applied Art named after Yakiv Pauchenko in the nomination “heraldry and vexillology” (2005) (the village of Oleksandrivka, Kirovohrad region)

    Symbols (coat of arms and flag) of the village of Pavlysh, Onufriivka district, Kirovohrad region. Author: Postryhan Vitalii Viktorovych – a teacher of History of Hub Institution of General Secondary Education “Pavlish lyceum named after V.O.Sukhomlynskyi”, laureate of the Regional Local History Award named after Volodymyr Yastrebov (2011) (the village of Pavlysh, Onufriivka district, Kirovohrad region).

in the nomination “decorative and applied art”
    Monumental panels in the mosaic technique: “Old Testament”, “Christinization of Kievan Rus”, a triptych “John the Baptist”, “Most Holy Mother of God”, and “St. Righteous Elizabeth”2017-2018 made on the area of the Cathedral Church of Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the town of Kropyvnytskyi
    Author: Kryvko Oleksandr Volodymyrovych – an artist, a teacher of the municipal institution “Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin of the town of Kropyvnytskyi”, the head of the Department of Architecture and Construction of the Kirovohrad eparchy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, churchman of the Church of Siant Nicholas (the town of Kropyvnytskyi)

    Works – the panels made in the traditional techniques of decorative and applied art (art needlepoint and cross stitch, 3D applique from color ribbons)
Author: Muntian Valentyna Vasylivna – Merited Artist of Folk Art of Ukraine (the town of Kropyvnytskyi). The exhibition of demonstrational materials of the contenders for the award is shown in the exhibition hall of the museum.