Small and remote as it is, the village of Parkhomivka, located 100 kilometres from the east-Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, is well known for its art museum that houses a unique collection of masterpieces, namely paintings by such world-famous artists as Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Kazymyr Malevych, Vasyl Kandinsky, etc.
The museum was founded in 1955 by Afanasiy Panas Luniov, a history teacher of the local secondary school, art collector and art connoisseur.
The current museum director, Olena Semenchenko, has been managing the institution since 2001, when 82-year-old Panas Lunyov resigned due to ill health. However, Ms Semenchenko is not new to the job as she contributed to the development of the museum when she was a young schoolgirl.
