The last Congress adopted seven bills for memorials, including one to Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian poet laureate ; ;

* 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet ( d. 1941 )

* 1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet ( d. 1794 )

** Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet

* March 10 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet ( b. 1814 )

* March 9 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet ( d. 1861 )

** Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright ( d. 1823 )

* August 15 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian poet, critic, journalist and political activist ( d. 1916 )

Ukrainian poet and activist Olena Teliha and her husband, renowned bandurist Mykhailo Teliha, were murdered there on February 21, 1942.

Indeed, even the Russian poet of Ukrainian descent Taras Shevchenko despite using the word Ukraine for the area of ancient Rus, never uses the term Ukrainian as an ethnonym in any of his works, but rather uses the terms Kozak or Russian and " Malorussian " (" малороссийский ").

Ivan Vladimirovitch Chtcheglov ( Russian: Ива ́ н Влади ́ мирович Щегло ́ в ; 16 January 1933 – April 21 1998 ) was a French political theorist, activist and poet, born in Paris to Ukrainian father and French mother.

** Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist, iconic figure of Ukrainian culture

Other recipients of the Prize: Mikola Bazhan ( Ukrainian poet ), Sergo Kobuladze ( painter ), Irakli Ochiauri ( sculptor ), Sergo Zakariadze ( actor ), Nino Ramishvili ( dancer ), Iliko Sukhishvili ( dancer ), Ramaz Chkhikvadze ( actor ), Guram Pataraia ( producer ), Tengiz Abuladze ( producer ), Mukhran Machavariani ( poet ), Tamaz Chiladze ( poet ), Chabua Amirejibi ( novelist ), Levan Tsutskiridze ( painter ), etc.

* Oksana Zabuzhko-contemporary Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (, Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko,, Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko ) ( – ) was a Ukrainian poet and artist of the Russian Empire.

Ivan Franko, the renowned Ukrainian poet in the generation after Shevchenko, had this to say of the compilation: " immediately revealed, as it were, a new world of poetry.

* Lesya Ukrainka ( 1871 – 1913 ), Ukrainian poet

Feffer was a prolific poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Yiddish, and his poems were widely translated into Russian and Ukrainian.

For instance, " Little Russia " has been preferred by the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in his private diary ( 1857 — 1858 ).

The `` Taras Bulba '' excerpt is a rousing version of Gogol's Ukrainian folk-tale choreographed by Bo Fenster to music of Soloviev-Sedoi.

In recent years, local business owner, Peter Coleman, erected a statue of Ukrainian Freedom fighter Taras Schevchenko in front of the church.

* Frank Sysyn, " Nestor Makhno and the Ukrainian Revolution ," in Taras Hunchak, ed., The Ukraine, 1917-1921: A Study in Revolution, 1977.

Taras Hunczak of Rutgers University writes that " to convict Petliura for the tragedy that befell Ukrainian Jewry is to condemn an innocent man and to distort the record of Ukrainian-Jewish relations ".

The monument erected at the entrance to a hotel shows Cossack Mamay ( a Ukrainian folklore hero whose fondness for varenyky was narrated by both Taras Shevchenko and Nikolay Gogol ) eating varenyky from an earthenware pot, with a huge crescent-shaped varenyk behind him.

Taras Shevchenko on the obsoleted 1000000 Ukrainian karbovanets | karbovanets banknote

Taras Shevchenko has a unique place in Ukrainian cultural history and in world literature.

After Ukraine gained its independence in the wake of the 1991 Soviet Collapse, some Ukrainian cities replaced their statues of Lenin with statues of Taras Shevchenko and in some locations that lacked streets named to him, local authorities renamed the streets or squares to Shevchenko.

In 2001, the Ukrainian society " Prosvita " raised the initiative of building a Church near the Chernecha Mount in Kaniv, where Taras Shevchenko is buried.

The British band New Order released a live video on Factory Records entitled Taras Shevchenko, recorded in 1981 at the Ukrainian National Home in the East Village of New York City ; the initial scenes feature a digitised version of the Shevchenko self-portrait.

File: Taras Shevchenko Encarnación. jpg | Shevchenko bust dedicated to Ukrainian immigrants in Encarnación, Paraguay

* Taras Voznyak, Ukrainian journalist

* September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

Several churches, including St. George's Catholic Church ; Ukrainian restaurants and butcher shops ; The Ukrainian Museum ; the Shevchenko Scientific Society ; and the Ukrainian Cultural Center are evidence of the impact of this culture on the area.

Shevchenko ( alternative spellings Schevchenko, Ševčenko, Shevcenko, Szewczenko ; ), a family name of Ukrainian origin.

** Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

** Andriy Vitaliyovych Shevchenko, Ukrainian journalist turned politician

* Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian Soviet diplomat who defected to the West

* Lyudmyla Shevchenko, Ukrainian team handball player

* Oleksiy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

** Serhiy Vasylyovych Shevchenko, Ukrainian ex-footballer, currently a football coach

** Valentyna Yevhenivna Shevchenko, Ukrainian cross-country skier

* Vasyl Shevchenko, Ukrainian bandurist

* Yevhen Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

A number of bandura primers appeared in print in 1913-14 written by Mykhailo Domontovych, Vasyl Shevchenko and Vasyl Ovchinnikov, which contained arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs with bandura accompaniment.