In November, a Holodomor drawing contest for children in grades
6 through 11 gets underway. The initiator of the contest is the
Main Administration for Education and Science at the Kyiv City
State Administration (KMDA). The competition will consist of
several stages and will be held in all schools of the Ukrainian
capital. The best works will be selected for an exhibition
scheduled for Nov. 18 at the Children and Youth Palace in Kyiv.
Kyiv’s Deputy Mayor Serhii Rudyk said during a session of the
organizing committee tasked with preparing public events in
conjunction with the anniversary of the Holodomor that the
drawings will be used in public advertising. The KMDA’s Chief
Advertising Directorate will add more touches to the artworks,
which will then be displayed on municipal billboards and light
boxes. Another competition on the same subject will be held
almost simultaneously, this one organized on the initiative of
the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, entitled The
People’s Memory. It is aimed a