Ethno-Festival "Petrykivskyi Dyvotsvit"

“Petrykivskyi Dyvotsvit” was a large-scale annual international ethnographic and folklore festival-fair that traditionally took place in early or mid-September in the village of Petrykivka, Dnipropetrovsk region. Founded in 2008, the festival became the region’s main cultural showcase, dedicated to promoting Petrykivka painting, inscribed on the UNESCO list, as well as to developing green tourism.

The event was originally conceived as an ethnographic fair modeled on the famous Sorochyntsi Fair in the Poltava region. Over time it grew into a festival-fair, and from 2017 it officially held the status of an ethno-festival. Each year it brought together not only masters of Petrykivka painting but also artists, weavers, potters, and other folk craftsmen from across the Dnipropetrovsk region — the village’s central streets turned into a fairground with workshops, folk ensemble performances, and a market of decorative crafts.

Over the years the festival set some notable records: in 2012 participants painted a 120-meter fence in the Petrykivka style, which entered the Ukrainian Book of Records, and later a 50-meter embroidered towel (rushnyk). In its most successful years the event attracted up to 30,000 visitors from the region and beyond.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion and the approach of the front line to the Dnipropetrovsk region, the festival has not been held since 2022.