The graveyard in Ploske. The funeral of Hanna Petrivna Mateiko. Placing the coffin on the rushnyky. These are especially long and used for the purpose of lowering the coffin into the grave. In some areas, the rushnyky used for lowering the coffin and new and cut into pieces and distributed among the gravediggers as payment. In some areas, the rushnyky are reused from one funeral to the next.

Ukraine -- Chernihivs'ka oblast' -- Nosivs'kyi raion -- Ploske