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Vegreville egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, a Ukrainian style Easter egg. It is the largest pysanka sculpture in the world. World Largest Easter

The work is built of an

intricate set of anodized

aluminum two-dimensional

tiles congruent equilateral

triangles and star-shaped hexagons

fashioned over an aluminum framework.

Cel mai mare ou de Paște

din lume poate fi găsit în Canada la Vegreville,

Alberta. Construit în anul 1975,

este alcătuit din triunghiuri de aluminiu.

Peste 2.000 de astfel de

triunghiuri, unite prin 7.000 de

nituri, intră în structura acestui ou

uriaș care are un diametru de 5,6 metri.

Vegreville a town in central Alberta,

Canada. Founded in 1906, a large percentage of Vegreville's

population is of Ukrainian Canadian

descent

Acesta a fost proiectat de Ron Resch, un profesor de matematică din Utah

Oul de Paște din Vegreville este decorat în culorile negru, auriu și argintiu, fiind o reprezentare a ouălor tradiționale din Ucraina, care poartă numele de Pysanka. Cele două țări sunt strâns legate prin acest simbol păstrat cu sfințenie.Oul din Vegreville are o lungime de 7,83 metri şi cântăreşte 2,3 tone.Localnicii îi spun „Pysanka”, cuvânt care în limba ucraineană înseamnă „ou încondeiat”.

The current Pysanka Museum building was built in 2000 in the western Ukrainian city of Kolomyia. Previously the pysanka collection had been housed in the Kolomyia church of the Annunciation. The museum is part of the National museum of Hutsul-land

The central part of the museum is in the shape of a pysanka (Ukrainian

Easter egg) and it has become a calling card of

the city. In August 2007 the

museum was recognized as a

landmark of modern Ukraine.

The museum is not only shaped like an egg (14 m

in height and 10 m in diameter), but parts of the

exterior of and inside of the dome are painted to

resemble a pysanka.

Interior of the dome of the pysanka

At this time, the museum possesses a collection of

over 10,000 pysanky. The permanent

collection includes pysanky from the

majority of the oblasts of Ukraine. Many are

modern re-creations of traditional designs, but

there is also a fine collection of older

pysanky from the Ivano-Frankivsk region that

date from the 19th and 20th centuries

There are many examples of both pysanky and other forms of decorated eggs

from other countries (Romania ,Belarus, Poland,

the Czech Republic) and more distant lands

(Sweden, USA, Canada, France, Pakistan, Sri

Lanka, India).

An even larger pysanka has been

proposed and designed, but not yet

built. I saw this on line last year – a plan

to build a huge pysanka and

“multifunctional complex” in Kyiv. This would be the world’s biggest pysanka, if ever constructed. The

series of structures would be built on an island in the Dnipro.

village of Bratkivtsi,

L’viv oblast. It was

constructed to celebrate the

turn of the last Millennium and 2000 years of

Christianity. There is a

statue of the Virgin Mary

inside the big pysanka.

Kiev Pechersk

Lavra, also known as the Kiev

Monastery of the Caves.Together with the

Saint Sophia Cathedral, it is inscribed

as a UNESCO World

Heritage Site..

The sphere sculpture of 3000 paint Easter eggs made by children and gifted to Kiev Pechersk Lavra on October 22, 2011 in Kiev, Ukraine

Sound: Divna Ljubojevic - Kyrie Eleison (Doamne miluiește!)

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu

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