The President of Ukraine Victor Yuschenko called Donetsk region the industrial center of Ukraine. The region celebrated its 75th jubilee this year. The head of our state was convinced in this at the exhibition center “Expo-Donbass” where a huge exposition of achievements of the region’s workers in the field of economy, industry, science, technique and education was expanded.Victor Yuschenko was especially interested in the people’s craft : embroidery, icons made of beads, network of rod etc. Donetsk blacksmith Maksim Cherni, who had forged a mini-copy of a palm tree and presented it to the President of the country distinguished himself. In a special way.

Everybody, who accompanied the President Yuschenko, get themselves familiar with great interest with the stands, for example, with the stands of the Donetsk State Institute of Artificial Intelligence., which was located in the yellow hall of the center “Expo-Donbass”. Pro-rector of the DonSIAI on Modern Technologies Svetlana Ivanova offered, in particular, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, people’s deputy of Ukraine of the 5-th convocation Pyotr Simonenko developments of the institute in the area of robot technique and together with her colleagues demonstrated the guests only some functions of the robot “Intelligence-12”, showed him training programs, published works.

More than 120 representatives of the Registered Cossacks were standing on guard at the monument for Taras Shevchenko. Here there were Cossacks of the Students the URC Cossack Division in their new snow-white forms headed by their commanders: the URC Major-General Oleg Kashin, atamans, chiefs of headquarters, heads of city organizations of Gorlovka, Mariupol, Makeevka, Donetsk regional Ataman of the URC, the URC Inspecot-General, Pro-rector of the DonSIAI the URC Colonel –Genera Guennadi Domashenko, the URC hetman Deputy, Pro-rector of the DonSIAI, the URC Colonel Valentina Semyonova, head of Rada of the URC Bereguinyas, Pro-rector of the DonSIAI the URC Major-general Valentina Furmanyuk.

The President of Ukraine appealed to the Cossack leaders. In his short speech he assured that he was convinced in the important role of Cossacks, especially the registered Cossacks with hetman Anatoli Shevchenko at head, in regeneration of spirituality and patriotism in the hearts and souls of the Ukrainians.Victor Yuschenko, filled with love towards the citizens of Donetsk, greeted heartily the URC Major-General Valentina Furmanyuk. He was meeting the head of the Bereguinyas of the URC and he kissed gallantly the hand of the woman in Cossack uniform.

After that the core of the events in which the registered Cossacks were in the center of attention, moved to the Donetsk Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet after Anatoli Solovianenko, where official solemn events took place. The Leader of the All-Ukrainian Party of Spirituality and Patriotism, Hetman of the Ukrainian registered Cossacks, Corresponding Member of NAS of Ukraine, Ph. Doctor of Theology, Ph. Doctor of Technical Science< rector of the DonSIAI, Full Professor Anatoli Shevchenko took part in the ceremony. The official part of celebrating the 75th anniversary of Donetsk region was terminated with the end of the President of Ukraine’s visit Victor Yuschenko to Donetsk. But, according to what the organizers had planned the festive events were going to last all the summer of 2007.