ODESA, NOVEMBER 19th, 2012, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― The final of the contest “Tsvetaevski kostry” has been held today, 19 November, at Odesa Roerich Museum, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The contest organizer Margarita Kolobova reported today, 19 November, during the telephone interview.

According to Mrs Kolobova, ”this year only a quarter of a thousand people (comparatively with thousand people last year) participated in the contest. It happened because now we have no administrator of a charity site «AVE». People could not send their works. There were 10 finalists”.

The finalists were Vitaly Molchanov ― the 1st place and Grand Prix, Russia; 2nd place was devoted by Mark Lutskiy, Israel, and Inga Daugaviete, Australia; 3rd place was devoted by Anatoly Stoletov, Russia, and Yuriy Polissky, Ukraine. Vadim Negaturov, Odesa, received special prize ― monetary reward.

As reported before, the contest “Tsvetaevskiye kostry” was held in the framework of the 4th International Contest “Tsvetaevskaya Outumn” through 26 September ― 20 November in Odesa.

The organizers of the contest were public organization “United Odesa” and charitable foundation “AVE”. The contest was supported by the office of the federal agency in Ukraine Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia.