Shevchenko National Prize is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since 1961. It is named after the inspirer of Ukrainian national revival Taras Shevchenko. It is one of the five state prizes of Ukraine that are awarded for achievements in various fields.
Bohdan Horyn is a Ukrainian human rights activist and dissident. He was a People's Deputy of the first and second convocations of the Verkhovna Rada from May 15, 1990, to May 12, 1998.
Nila Valeryivnia Kryukova was a Ukrainian actress. She was awarded a 1985 People's Artist of Ukraine, 1989 Shevchenko National Prize, 2006 Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, and 2008 Hero of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Sheiko is a Ukrainian conductor, Honored Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine, the director of the Association "Music," and the chief conductor of the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Cossacks is a series of Ukrainian animated comedy short films originally shot at the Kyivnaukfilm film studio and in later series created by the UkrAnimaFilm and Baraban animation studios. This series has also sometimes been titled "Yak Kozaky". The author of the original script and director was Volodymyr Dakhno. The first episode was released in 1967 and was titled "How the Cossacks cooked kulish". The cartoon immediately gained popularity and its heroes became Ukrainian cartoon classics.
Anatoly Mikhaylovich Havrylov was a Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer. He won the Shevchenko National Prize in 1988 for the Cossacks cartoon series. Havrylov was an Honored Art Worker of Ukraine (2010).
Volodymyr Viktorovych Tykhyi is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film producer of documentaries and feature films. He is a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, and he is a 2018 winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for a series of historical and documentary films about the Revolution of Dignity.
Horpyna Fedosiyivna Vatchenko was a Ukrainian historian and director of the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro, where she led a programme of expansion and redevelopment during the 1970s.
Hanna Ivanovna Veres was a Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver. She was the daughter of the artist and weaver, Maria Posobchuk, and the mother of artists Valentina and Elena Veres. She was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize with Anna Vasylashchuk in 1968.
Rostyslav Lyubomyrovych Derzhypilsky is a Ukrainian theater director and actor, People's Artist of Ukraine, and the artistic director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.
Danylo Danylovych Lyder was a Ukrainian set designer, and teacher. He was a member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, the National Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine, and Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee of Ukraine.
Valentina Ivanovna Veres, in Ukrainian: Валентина Іванівна Верес is a Ukrainian textile artist and master weaver, who was appointed an Honoured Artist of Ukraine in 1999. She is the daughter of folk artist Hanna Veres.
Mykhailo Hordiiovych Derehus was a Soviet Ukrainian graphic artist, painter and educator. In 1969 he was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize. His work is held in the collection of the Kuindzhi Art Museum, Mariupol, Ukraine.
Tamara Huselnykova is a Ukrainian architect-restorer born in Borzya.
Volodymyr Denysenko was a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He was a laureate of the Shevchenko Prize in 1979 for the film "Reapers" (ukr.«Женці») and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
Vitalii Yukhymovych Malakhov was a Ukrainian theatre director and artistic manager-director of the Kyiv Drama Theater on Podil. He was nominated as the People's Artist of Ukraine in 2008. He was also the laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize in the field of art in 2008.
Anatoly Kryvolap is a Ukrainian artist, master of non-figurative painting. Full member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
Ihor Mykolaiovych Haidai is a Ukrainian photo artist and one of the founders of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine.
Zinaida Mykolaivna Dekhtyaryova was a Ukrainian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1968). Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1996).
Nataliya Yukhymivna Polovynka is a Ukrainian soprano singer, actress in theater and movies, educator, and director of theater who won the Shevchenko National Prize in 2006, and founder and head of the Lviv Theater Center "Word and Voice". She plays classical music, old spiritual tunes from Ukraine, and traditional Ukrainian melodies.
