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Fact pack
Every figure we publish about the Rushnyk of Unity — Rushnyk of Victory, with the document behind it and how far that document goes. Cite from here.
The register
Three states: confirmed means we hold the document; reported means the project's team told us and we have yet to see paper; planned means an intention.
- Length of the joined clothThe Book of World Records certificate No. 26-2405-002UA · 2026-05-24The certificate reads 160 m 50 cm. The cloth keeps growing, so this is its length on the day of the record.
- 160.5 m
- Confirmed
- Individual rushnyky joined into oneThe Book of World Records certificate No. 26-2405-002UA · 2026-05-24
- 103
- Confirmed
- Organizations that added a panelThe Book of World Records certificate No. 26-2405-002UA · 2026-05-24
- 89
- Confirmed
- European record registered, in TallinnThe Book of World Records, Tallinn, Estonia; certificate No. 26-2405-002UA · 2026-05-24Awarded by The Book of World Records, a private registry. Guinness World Records is a separate body and has awarded nothing here.
- 24 May 2026
- Confirmed
- The 2014 Kherson rushnyk — a separate clothBook of Records of Ukraine, diploma of 04.04.2014, scan held by the project team · 2014-04-04Unrolled across the Dnipro bridge in Kherson on 28 March 2014 by pupils of around 1,100 schools. A different cloth from the one travelling now, and worth keeping distinct.
- 735 m
- Confirmed
- Countries of Europe crossedUAFest organizers, September 2026; the list is being checked with the project’s author · 2026-09-21Canada became the 15th country in September 2026. The certificate states no country count; the list is being reconciled with the project's author.
- 14
- Reported to us
- Embroiderers, from children to grandmothersThe project’s organizers, May 2026 · 2026-05The certificate counts organizations and panels, and leaves the number of people out.
- 120+
- Reported to us
- Left the United Kingdom for CanadaThe project team, UaFest working chat, 21.08.2026 · 2026-08
- 30.08.2026
- Reported to us
- North American premiere at UAFestUAFest — Riverside Park, Carleton Place, Ontario · 2026-09
- 13.09.2026
- Confirmed
- Guinness World Records attemptA goal stated by the project’s team · 2026-08A goal the project's team has stated: the record is to be set in Ukraine. No application, date or adjudication is confirmed.
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- Planned
The documents
Scans we hold. Ask us for full-resolution files and we send them the same day.
Who stands behind the project
An independent check found no single rights-holding legal entity: the project is co-organized, and the chain of title is still being established. UAFest organizes and produces the North American premiere. Our memorandum with the project says exactly that, and anyone citing us should say it too.
- Association of Ukrainian Organizations in Estonia
- Co-organizer · the project's strongest institutional partyEstonian reg. code 80127690, Tallinn
- Andrii Yatsenko
- Project author and director — named on the record certificate
- Viktoriia Bebko
- Project curator — countersigns the participation certificates
- NGO “Shchaslyva Natsiia” (Kherson), Tallinn Bible Church, Kirovohrad Regional Taxpayers Organization
- Co-organizers of the original 2013–14 rushnyk
- Ukrainian Community of Lanark County (UAFest)
- Organizer and producer of the North American premiereOntario Corporation 1000983432, Carleton Place
What we will happily tell you we do not know
- Which single organization or person holds the rights to the project. This is being established; UAFest holds no exclusive representation for the Americas.
- The exact list of countries. We print 14 in Europe, with Canada as the 15th; the certificate counts organizations and panels and names no country count, and the list is being reconciled with the project's author.
- The route beyond the confirmed stops. Cities across Canada, the United States and Latin America are named in the team's working plan, and none of them is agreed.
- Whether a Guinness World Records attempt will be filed, when, and in which category.
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