Alla Landar – Honored Worker of the Service Sector of Ukraine

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr ZELENSKY issued Decree No. 92/2021 "On State Awards of Ukraine".

By his Decree, for a significant personal contribution to the socio-economic, scientific-technical, cultural-educational development of the Ukrainian state, exemplary performance of duty and many years of conscientious work, he decided to award the following honorary title:
"DESERVED EMPLOYEE OF THE SERVICE SPHERE OF UKRAINE"
LANDAR Alli Petrivni — director of the private enterprise "Petro Velikiy" in Kyiv, president of the International Association of Funeral Professionals (National Member from Ukraine in the World Federation of Funeral Directors (FIAT-IFTA), member of the Federation of Directors of Funeral Homes (NFDA, USA).
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In order to present Allu Landar with a state award, a petition was submitted to the Administration of the President of Ukraine from a number of both state and non-state Ukrainian and foreign organizations, as well as a letter of award. Here are the main theses of this document.
Since 2014, Alla Landar has provided assistance to the families of the Heavenly Hundred, allocated funds for volunteer battalions, equipped humanitarian convoys with food and medicine, and organized free burials of fallen Ukrainian servicemen.
In 1994, she headed the family business founded by her father, took the position of director in the family company "Petro Velikiy".
2011-2020. At the time of the creation of the private enterprise, PF "Petro Velikiy" had only one store of ritual goods and services. During the years of management of the PF company "Petro Velikiy" as a director, the network of stores of ritual services and goods was expanded to twenty one.
Today, the company has 28 branches in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
2011-2020. During the years of leadership of the company, Alla Landar as director created her own fleet of hearses and ceremony escort buses from the best European and American manufacturers - from the Deluxe class to the VIP-Premium class.
1994-2020 New jobs were created during these years. The company "Petro Velikiy" started its activity with four people, and today it has dozens of permanent employees in its staff.
From 1994 to 2019, the private company "Petro Velikiy" was free of charge, on its own initiative, engaged in the burial of stateless citizens, including those without a permanent place of residence, as well as those found unrecognizable under various circumstances and after disasters, accidents on highways and railway tracks.
In August 2008, Alla Landar founded and headed the international public organization "International Association of Funeral Professionals".
As the president of the "International Association of Funeral Professionals", Alla Landar obtained the status of National Member from Ukraine in the World Federation of Funeral Directors (FIAT-IFTA).
From 2013 to 2018, Alla Landar, the president of the MAPPS NGO, participated in the Forums of the World Federation of Funeral Directors in Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, Hungary, Spain, Bolivia, and in the work of the World Exhibitions of Funeral Culture in Dusseldorf, Paris, Bologna, Valencia, Montreal, Esztergom and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
In 2018, Landar studied the experience of organizing forest cemeteries in Stockholm using the example of the UNESCO world cultural heritage site - the Skugschurkogården cemetery.
In 2020, together with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, she studied and adapted the international experience in the field of burials of the dead from .Covid-2019.
On April 16, 2010, Alla Landar became a co-founder of the NGO Kyiv City Committee for Business Rescue, where she initiated protests against the oppression of entrepreneurs and increased tax burdens on businesses.
From the end of 2013 until the end of the Revolution of Dignity, Alla Landar helped the defenders of the Maidan with clothes, food, protective equipment and medicines.
Private enterprise "Petro Velikiy", the owner of which is Alla Landar, has been providing financial support to the family of the Heavenly Hundred since 2014 and helping in the organization of burials.
From 2014 to 2015, Alla Landar organized and sent humanitarian convoys with food, medicine, drinking water, uniforms, electric generators to the combat zone to support volunteer battalions together with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (KP) with the support and personal participation of His Holiness Patriarch Filaret.
On August 27, 2014, Alla Landar was part of the initiative group and together with the President of Ukraine developed a strategy for the withdrawal of the Ukrainian military from the Ilovai Cauldron. After the battles for Ilovaisk, in September 2014 - May 2015, Alla Landar, with the support of the UOC KP, participated in the return of Ukrainian prisoners home.
Since 2014, he has been helping in the treatment of the wounded. Provides military sanitary services with resuscitation and medical vehicles on the front lines. Organized free burials of the first victims during the war in Donbas.

In 2013, PF "Petro Velikiy", implementing the idea of director Alla Landar, financed the writing and publication of the first practical guide in our country "Funeral Business in Ukraine", which laid the foundations for the reform of Ukrainian legislation in the funeral sphere, and also laid the foundations for the future professional education of specialized workers in the industry.
In 2019, Alla Landar, as the director of the Private Firm "Petro Velikiy", introduced a 24/7 dispatching "hotline" for the first time in the market of funeral services in Ukraine. This made it possible to ensure the delivery of deceased persons from the place of death to patho-anatomical departments and forensic medical examination bureaus on the territory of Vasylkov, Vasylkov district, Brovary, Brovary district. The provision of such a high-quality and convenient service for the public in the difficult moments of the loss of a loved one is absolutely free and is provided in the shortest possible time, which proves the effectiveness of the operation of such an extremely important service for the relatives of deceased persons.
1994-2020. A separate page of the activity of the PF "Petro Velikiy" and the care of its director Alla Landar - the burial of outstanding personalities of the state: the first cosmonaut, Hero of Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Lubomyr Husar, Hero of Ukraine, killed by the Kremlin regime journalist Pavlo Sheremet, figures of the state, science, culture, medicine and sports.
1994-2020. In the course of economic activity in the field of funeral services, Alla Landar, as the director of the company, paid great attention to the selection and formation of the appropriate staff for conducting funeral ceremonies and their accompaniment. Each employee of the company undergoes special training, and later retraining, which are periodically carried out during their professional activities in order to improve the level of providing ritual services.
Alla Landar created a program for the provision of ritual services for low-income groups of the population, which includes minimally affordable price categories for the goods and services of our company, while not reducing the level of their provision, but on the contrary, the main task of this program is to maximally meet the needs of customers with the appropriate level of services, regardless of their material wealth and preferences.
1994-2020 Private enterprise "Petro Velikiy" private firm, on the initiative of Alla Landar, repeatedly provided irrevocable financial aid to medical institutions of the capital and Kyiv region, with which contractual and/or economic relations were formed. Continuous and long-term fruitful experience of the Enterprise, conscientious and trust-based cooperation with the management of medical institutions in the capital and the region testify to the trust of the company's staff.
From 2012 to 2020, Alla Landar and MGO MAPPS as a National Member have the highest representation at the forums and congresses of the World Federation of Funeral Directors FIAT-IFTA. This experience made it possible not only to make changes to the legislation, to introduce everything advanced in Ukraine in terms of innovation in ritual goods and services, but also to develop the industry worldwide, representing it at the UN and UNESCO. FIAT-IFTA is an associate member of these highest world organizations, and therefore many initiatives with the participation of Alla Landar and MAPPS as a National Member from Ukraine found their continuation in the practice of the global funeral industry. First of all, in matters of repatriation of deceased persons in the world, return of the bodies of the deceased to their historical homeland, as well as the spread of the world burial culture to all countries and continents of the world. Thanks to the study of best world experience and practice, the Amendments to the Law on Burials and Funeral Affairs now prescribe Articles on the private funeral home as the basis of the funeral industry, private cemetery and crematorium, as well as ecological green burials and forest-cemetery in particular.

In 2019, Alla Landar personally took part in a broad discussion of all important issues of legislative initiatives and amendments to the Law on Funerals and Funerals, not only in the print media, but also on television.
Since 2008, Alla Landar, as the president of the MAPPS NGO, has been conducting large-scale work in the Public Councils under the ministries, agencies, AMCU, the Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Including:
• On September 30, 2011, she became a member of the Public Council under the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine,
• In 2012, she became a member of the Public Councils under the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the State Service of Ukraine on Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship Development,
• On June 26, 2013, she joined the public council under the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine,
• On September 4, 2013, she was accepted into the Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine,
• On May 12, 2014, she joined the Public Council under the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine.
• On May 18, 2016, based on the results of the rating vote, she became a member of the Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Among the awards of Alla Landar for achievements in entrepreneurial activity and protection of the rights of entrepreneurs and consumers, volunteer movement, development of the church and the state.
Among them are the Orders:
• Order of the Holy Great Martyr Varvara from the UOC (KP) for services to the revival of spirituality and the establishment of the Local Church in Ukraine (2013),
• Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga from the UOC (MP) for services to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2013),
• Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostle Prince Volodymyr the Great III degree from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (KP) for assistance in the release of our prisoners of war in the East of Ukraine, as well as services for the revival of spirituality and the establishment of the Local Church in Ukraine (2016),
• Medal "For Sacrifice and Love of Ukraine" from the UOC (KP) (2016),
• Order of Nicholas the Wonderworker (UPC KP) for volunteering in the ATO zone, as well as services for the revival of spirituality and the establishment of the Local Church in Ukraine (2017),
• Order of St. Archangel Michael, 2nd degree from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (September 19, 2019),
Certificates:
• Certificate of the religious community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (KP) — for providing assistance in the construction of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos (2010),
• Certificate of Honor of the State Service of Ukraine on Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship Development for a huge personal contribution to the development of entrepreneurship, an active public position, protection of the rights and interests of entrepreneurs (2011),
• Certificates of honor from the Ministry of Regional Construction and the Council of Entrepreneurs at the CMU for a huge personal contribution to the development of entrepreneurship and protection of the rights and interests of entrepreneurs (2012),
• Diploma of honor of the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Economy of Ukraine for a huge personal contribution to the development of entrepreneurship, defense of the rights and interests of entrepreneurs, an active lifestyle (2012),
• Diploma of the volunteer battalion "Donbas" — for an active public position, patriotism and development of the volunteer movement (2014),
• Certificate of honor of the Union of Afghanistan soldiers for humanity and humanism in honor of the defenders of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine (2015).
Among other things, Alla Landar received thanks from Ukrainian military units for patriotism and the development of the volunteer movement, in particular from:
- personnel of the 3rd separate special purpose regiment, military unit B2326,
- Kyiv Lyceum named after Bohuna,
- the "Aidar" battalion and the Right Sector,
- as well as from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
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We would like to remind you that the President of Ukraine, in accordance with the current legislation, establishes presidential awards and awards them.
In addition, according to the Constitution of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine awards state awards, establishes presidential awards and awards them; at the same time, state awards are established exclusively by the laws of Ukraine.
And finally, on March 16, 2000, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law "On State Awards of Ukraine". Practically all awards of the President of Ukraine in effect at the time of the adoption of the law became separate state awards without the status of Presidential awards. The law also recommended the President of Ukraine to bring his decrees into line with this law.
Importantly. After the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation troops on the territory of Independent Ukraine, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi issued a Decree establishing the honorary award "For Courage and Courage".