Sorochyntsi Fair or Sorochynsky Fair (, , translit. ''Sorochinskaya yarmarka'') is a large

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held in the village of

Velyki Sorochyntsi Velyki Sorochyntsi (; formerly referred to simply as Sorochyntsi) is a village in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It formerly had town status. It hosts the administration of Velyki Sorochyntsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas ...

near

Poltava Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Po ...

in the

Myrhorod Raion Myrhorod Raion (; translit.: ''Myrhorods'kyi raion'') is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Myrhorod. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Uk ...

(

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) of

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. It was held five times a year during the

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, then went into a 40-year moratorium during Soviet rule. It has been held annually since its revival after Ukraine became independent in 1991, except 2020. Following a Presidential Decree of August 18, 1999, the fair holds the status of Ukraine's national trade fair. The fair is a large showcase for traditional handicrafts made by skilled craftsmen, including

Reshetylivka Reshetylivka () is a city located in Poltava Raion of Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine, and formerly the administrative center of Reshetylivka Raion. Population: The city is located from Reshetylivka railway station. History Reshetylivka ...

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, rugs,

Opishnia Opishnia (; ) is a rural settlement in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the right bank of the Vorskla, a tributary of the Dnieper. Opishnia hosts the administration of Opishnia settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Uk ...

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, as well theatrical performers who re-enact scenes of village life from famous Ukrainian stories. In August 2007, the fair was opened by

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.Traditional Sorochyntsi Fair officially opened in Velyki Sorochyntsi (Poltava region) today / News / NRCU
The historic Sorochyntsi Fair features in a number of Ukrainian and Russian works of literature and music, including "

The Fair at Sorochyntsi ''The Fair at Sorochyntsi'' (, ''Sorochinskaya yarmarka'', ''Sorochyntsi Fair'') is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on Ni ...

", a short story by

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

, and ''

'', an opera by

Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; ; ; – ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five (composers), The Five." He was an innovator of Music of Russia, Russian music in the Romantic music, Romantic period and strove to achieve a ...

References

External links

Sorochyntsi FairYakim Davydenko. In Sorochintsy at the fair. Photo essay. Kharkiv, Prapor, 1978

Photos of Sorochyntsi Fair 2010

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