Ukrainian Venezuelans are
Venezuelans of
Ukrainian heritage. The Ukrainian diaspora increased after 1945 due to a second wave of political emigrants. In the latter half of the 1940s and early 1950s, these Ukrainians were resettled in many different countries creating new Ukrainian settlements in Australia and Venezuela. In Venezuela the population is estimated to be around 10,000 Ukrainians.
Notable people
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Ivan Belsky (1923-2003),
painter and
graphic artist.
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Lya Imber
Lya Imber (1914–1981) was a pediatriacian.
Biography
Imber was born in Odessa, Ukraine on 17 March 1914 and died from cancer in Caracas, Venezuela on 23 September 1981. She was a prominent pediatrician vice president of UNICEF, and the fir ...
, (Odessa, Ukraine, 1914 - Caracas, 1981), the first woman in Venezuela to obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine (Paediatrics & Child Care Specialist) and the first female member of the board of the Medical School of the Federal District.
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Sofia Imber, journalist.
* , botanist and university professor.
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Stefanía Fernández Krupij,
beauty pageant
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titleholder who won the
Miss Venezuela 2008 and
Miss Universe 2009
Miss Universe 2009 was the 58th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Imperial Ballroom in Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, The Bahamas on August 23, 2009.
At the end of the event, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela crowned Stefanía Fernández of V ...
titles. She earned a
Guinness record
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by being the first Miss Universe winner who was crowned by a
compatriot.
[Most consecutive wins of the Miss Universe contest](_blank)
Community.guinnessworldrecords.com (2009-09-30). Retrieved on 2012-05-12.
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Vasyl Krychevsky
Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky ( uk, Василь Григорович Кричевський; January 12, 1873 in Vorozhba village, now Lebedyn Raion – November 15, 1952, in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, gr ...
, was a
painter,
architect
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,
art
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
scholar
A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researc ...
,
graphic artist, and master of
applied art
The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing."Applied art" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. Online edition. Oxford Unive ...
and
decorative art.
See also
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Ukraine–Venezuela relations Ukrainian–Venezualan relations are bilateral diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Venezuela, which were established on 9 January 1992 with the recognition of Ukraine's independence by Venezuela.
History
1990s
On 9 January 1992, Venezuela ...
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Ukrainian diaspora
The Ukrainian diaspora comprises Ukrainians and their descendants who live outside Ukraine around the world, especially those who maintain some kind of connection, even if ephemeral, to the land of their ancestors and maintain their feeling of Uk ...
References
{{Portal bar, Ukraine, Venezuela
European Venezuelan
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...