On May 15, 2026, the House of Artists, home to the Kharkiv branch of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, hosted the official opening ceremony of the representative office of the Eastern Regional Scientific and Art Centre of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine — an event of great significance for the cultural and academic development of the region.

Oleksandr SOBOLIEV, Rector of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and Head of the Eastern Regional Scientific and Art Centre, emphasised the leading role of the Academy and the unlimited potential of its staff.

The event was further marked by the off-site session of the Bureau of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine in Kharkiv, chaired by the President of NAA of Ukraine, Viktor SYDORENKO. He highlighted the importance of establishing the Eastern Centre’s representative office as a powerful hub for creative activity in the region.

The meeting was attended by leading figures from the artistic and academic communities: Vice-President of the NAA of Ukraine Oles SANIN, Full Members of the NAA of Ukraine Oleg VEKLENKO and Vasyl SHEIKO, Honorary Academician Viktor KOVTUN, Corresponding Members of the NAA of Ukraine  Liudmyla SOKOLIUK and Volodymyr MYSLAVSKYI, as well as Vladyslav KUTATELADZE, Scientific Secretary of the Eastern Regional Scientific and Art Centre; Kostiantyn CHERNIAVSKYI, Chairman of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine; Ihor TULUZOV, General Director and Artistic Director of the Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Mykola Lysenko; Maryna TOKAR, First Vice-Rector of KSADA; Nataliia HOVORUKHINA, Rector of the Kharkiv I.P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts; and Oleksii ZHYTNYTSKYI, General Director and Artistic Director of the Fred Yashynov Kharkiv State Circus.

During the ceremony, Viktor SYDORENKO presented awards from the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine to prominent representatives of Kharkiv’s cultural and artistic community.