The International Contest for children "Caves in the Eyes of our Children", organized by the Editors board of the UkrSA “The Light” magazine and UkrSA Commission "Children and Caves" finished receiving drawings. The competition was attended by 174 participants aged from 2 to 16 years. Together they sent 182 drawings. The geography of the contest was 5 countries - Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Poland and Lithuania.

Well? We welcome the decision of the jury. In the meantime, we thank our sponsors for providing prizes, including:

In 2018, during the period from February, 01 to March, 31 Ukrainian Speleological Association (UkrSA) is holding the 6th International Contest of Kid’s Drawing "Caves in the eyes of our children".

UkrSA is an all-Ukrainian public organization of Ukrainian cavers. One of the activities of UkrSA is to work with children. An introduction to caving, trips, expeditions is an effective means of educating children and youth.

Since 2013, the UkrSA Commission "Children and caves" and speleological magazine "The Light" (which is published by the Ukrainian Speleological Association) successfully held the International Contest of Kid’s Drawing "Caves in the eyes of our children". During the five years of the competition was attended by 673 children from 19 countries (Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Hungary, Romania, China, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, India, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Sri Lanka, Serbia , Malaysia, Italy), who sent 744 drawings. All images posted on the website of the UkrSA Commission "Children and caves", and the winners are published in "The Light" magazine.

Dear friends and colleagues-speleologists!

Usually, the New Year is not only period of a loud celebration, the winter outings, carols and a vacations.It is a period of summing up. An analysis of how the year passed: what we did, what we achieved, what we managed to do, what we created and what went past.

And so, summed up - the results can be found in the winners section. Diplomas sent to print. Once they are ready, the prizes together with the diplomas will be sent to the winners.

1st place