Veronica Vovchuk, a Ukrainian girl from Uzhgorod, became the winner of the Queen of the World 2009 Beauty Pageant, which was held on December 3 at the ESTREL Convention Center in Berlin, Germany.

The first in Ukraine Museum of Honey will be opened in one of the districts of Zakarpattia ( Transcarpathia ). The initiators of its creation are the beekeepers of Mukachivskiy District, together with the Tourism Department of Uzhgorod National University.