Kaniv is a city in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. The city rests on the Dnieper River, and is one of the main inland river ports on the Dnieper. It is an urban hromada of Ukraine. Population: 23,172.
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine that is the main center of development of science and technology by coordinating a system of research institutes in the country. It is the main research oriented organization along with the five other academies in Ukraine specialized in various scientific disciplines. NAS Ukraine consists of numerous departments, sections, research institutes, scientific centers and various other supporting scientific organizations.
Ukrainsk is a city in Selydove urban hromada, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The population was estimated at 10,655 in 2022, which went down from 13,236 in 2001. The city has been under Russian occupation since September 2024.
Irina (Iraida) Volodymyrivna Zhylenko, a Ukrainian poet, was the a wife of Volodymyr Drozd. She was born in Kyiv and died in August 2013 at the age of 72.
Pavlo Pavlovych Hai-Nyzhnyk is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kyiv), Academician of the Academy of Political Sciences (Kyiv) and Ukrainian poet. Deputy Director, Scientific Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
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.
Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba was a Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, dissident, Hero of Ukraine, academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the second Minister of Culture of Ukraine (1992—1994), and head of the committee for Shevchenko National Prize (1999–2001).
Dnipro is a monthly colour literary magazine in Ukraine. Published as Dnipro since 1944, it has its origins in the Molodniak magazine of 1927. The magazine features prose, contemporary poetry, modern Ukrainian drama, interviews, and reviews.
State Research Institution "Encyclopedia Press" is the Ukrainian publisher of encyclopedic, reference, dictionary literature. Its former names were: the Main Editorial Office of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (1959–1989) and the Mykola Bazhan All-Ukrainian State Specialized Publisher "Ukrainian Encyclopedia" (1989–2013). It operates in Kyiv since 1957.
Taras Prokhasko is a Ukrainian novelist, essayist and journalist. Together with Yuri Andrukhovych a major representative of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of postmodernist writers in Ivano-Frankivsk. Writing of Taras Prokhasko is often associated with magical realism, his novel «The UnSimple» has been compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Biologist by education Prokhasko's prose has been called to have features of "philosophy of a plant" for its dense and meditative character.
Ihor Kaczurowskyj was a Ukrainian poet, translator, novelist and short story writer, literary scholar, university lecturer, journalist.
Kostіantyn Doroshenko, Kostyantyn is a Ukrainian art critic, publicist, contemporary art curator, media manager, and radio host. Doroshenko is well known as a cultural and social journalist with works published in Ukraine, Australia, Azerbaijan, and Italy. He is the host of the radio station Radio Vesti. He is a columnist to company Public Culture; is a curator of the Research Platform PinchukArtCentre since 2019; and is the author of the books 'The End of the Late Iron Age' and 'Aria of Mary'. He is one of the most influential Ukrainian art curators and art critics of Ukraine according to Art Ukraine magazine and Focus magazine. He is also a member of the World League "Mind without drugs". On 1 April 2017, Doroshenko was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic Užupis among art critics of the world.
Viktoriia Yuriyivna Amelina, later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.
Ivan Riabchyi is a Ukrainian translator, journalist, publisher and cultural manager. He is one of the leading francophone translators in Ukraine who writes in Ukrainian, Russian and French.
Dzvinka Matiyash is a Ukrainian prose writer, children's author, poet and translator.
Vira Ageyeva is a Ukrainian literary critic and philologist. In 1990, she and other scholars established the first feminist seminars in the country as an initiative of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and she was a co-founder of the Kyiv Institute for Gender Studies in 1998. She was honored as a joint winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1996 and the Petro Mohyla Prize, an award given by Academic Council of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in 2008.
The Young Guard is an opera in four acts and seven scenes by the Ukrainian composer Yuliy Meitus, with a libretto by Andriy Malyshko.
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Sverstiuk was a Ukrainian literary critic, essayist, poet, think tank, philosopher, participant of the sixtiers movement, and political prisoner of the Soviet regime. Sverstiuk studied the work of Nikolai Gogol, Taras Shevchenko, and Ivan Franko. He was the founder and, since 1989 a permanent editor of the Orthodox newspaper Nasha Vira, president of the Ukrainian PEN Club. Doctor of Philosophy. Author of one of the most important texts of Ukrainian self-publishing About the process of Pogruzhalskyi, head of Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia.
Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies, candidate of philosophical sciences, and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize (2018) and of the Petro Mohyla Award (2021).
