On March 28, 2016 in Kiev the winners of the competition for the best design of symbol of the winner of Ivan Franko International Prize were announced.

The professional jury consisting of experts in sphere of awarding business, heraldry, faleristics and Franko study have chosen the winners.

In total, the jury accepted for consideration 12 works that met all the requirements and Procedure of the competition for the best design of symbol of the winner of Ivan Franko International Prize.

Dmitro Krugliak from Zaporizhzhya city and Sergii Lytvin from Poltava city shared the third place. They will receive a prize of 3 thousand UAH per each.

Oleg Lesiuk from Toronto (Canada) obtained the second place and a prize of 5 thousand UAH.

Since none of the design projects is complete and needs some improvement, the jury decided not to determine the first place.
It was decided to make the final design of symbol of the Winner taking into account the designes of the winners.

Management of the Fund offers to improve the design to Oleg Lesyuk – the Head of Ukrainian Union of Fine Arts of Canada, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and Association of Sculptors of Canada.

We remind that the competition for the best design of symbol of the winner of Ivan Franko International Prize was announced on January 27, 2016, and the works were accepted from February 15 to March 15, 2016.

The jury consisted of: Andriy Hrechylo, Doctor of Historical Sciences, head of Ukrainian Heraldic Society (chairman of the jury); Mykola Chmyr, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Member of the Commission of state awards and heraldry; Oleksiy Kohan, Honored Artist of Ukraine, graphic artist, member of Ukrainian Heraldic Society; Mykola Omelchenko, president of the club of collectors; Vitalii Shevchenko, journalist, writer, publisher, member of the National Union of ethnographers of Ukraine; Myhailo Shalata, literary critic, writer, Candidate of Philology, Franko scientist, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.