Shevchenko National Reserve

On May 22, 1861, famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was buried on a Chernecha Hill, which afterwards became known as Taras Hill ({{Langx|uk|Тарасова гора|links=no|translit=Tarasova Hora}}). In 1884, the first folk museum of Taras Shevchenko was built on Taras Hill and a monumental cast-iron cross-monument designed to Viktor Sychuhov was erected. On June 10, 1918, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian State recognized the tomb of Taras Shevchenko as national property. In August 1925 Tarasova Hill was recognized as a reserve.

During 1935–1937, the Taras Shevchenko Museum was built.{{fact|date=November 2023}} In 1939, a new, bronze monument to the poet designed by Matvei Manizer was erected. Destroyed during the Second World War by the German army, the museum and the monument were rebuilt. In 1989, the reserve was inscribed in the tentative World Heritage list of Ukraine.{{cite web |title=Tarass Shevtchenko Tomb and State Historical and Natural Museum – Reserve |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/672/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823151537/https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/672/ |archive-date=23 August 2021 |access-date=22 August 2021 |publisher=UNESCO World Heritage Centre}} In the same year, the reserve was granted national status and assumed its present name. This was confirmed by the Decree of the President of Ukraine in 1994.{{cite web|url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=587%2F94#Text|title=Decree of the President of Ukraine "On National Cultural Institutions"|date=October 11, 1994|publisher=Ukrainian Parliament}}

The reserve is included in the sphere of management of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine. The department is managed by the State Service for National Cultural Heritage.{{fact|date=November 2023}}

The reserve is a cultural-educational, research and tourist center that studies and promotes the heritage of the Ukrainian national and world historical and cultural heritage, the work by Taras Shevchenko, the history of Chernecha Hill, as well as protects cultural monuments from prehistoric times to the present, as well as the natural landscape.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} Its collection includes works by textile artist Hanna Veres.{{Cite web |title=РУШНИКИ ГАННИ ВАСИЛАЩУК ТА ГАННИ ВЕРЕС |url=https://lib.if.ua/exhib/1236327648.html |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=lib.if.ua}}

Every year the museums of the Shevchenko National Reserve are visited by more than 100 thousand tourists from Ukraine and abroad.{{fact|date=November 2023}}

General directors of Shevchenko National Reserve:

• 1989–2005 – Ihor Likhovy{{cite web|url=http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=HIST&P21DBN=HIST&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=hist_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=HIS=&S21STR=271|title=Ліховий Ігор Дмитрович|publisher=Institute of history of Ukraine|language=Ukrainian}}
• 2005–2010 – Maryan Pinyak{{cite web|url=https://procherk.info/news/7-cherkassy/83921-pishov-u-vichnist-direktor-shevchenkivskogo-natsionalnogo-zapovidnika-v-kanevi|title=The director of the Shevchenkivsky National Reserve in Kaniv, Maryan Pinyak, passed away|language=Ukrainian}}
• 2010–2011 – Ihor Renkas{{cite web|url=https://www.kaniv.net/news.php?p=4604|title=Ihor Renkas has been appointed as a director of the Shevchenko reserve|language=Ukrainian|website=kaniv.net}}
• 2011–2013 – Vasyl Kolomiets{{cite web|url=https://www.kaniv.net/news.php?p=6960|title=Vasyl Kolomiets has been appointed as a director of the Shevchenko reserve|language=Ukrainian|website=kaniv.net}}
• 2014–2015 – Vasyl Tulin{{cite web|url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/52f55fba9d7ef/|title=New director of Shevchenko Museum in Kaniv is appointed|website=istpravda.com.ua|language=Ukrainian}}
• 2015–2020 – Maryan Pinyak
• Since 2020 – Valentyna Kovalenko{{cite web|url=https://procherk.info/news/7-cherkassy/84044-shevchenkivskij-natsionalnij-zapovidnik-u-kanevi-ocholila-valentina-kovalenko|title=Shevchenko National Reserve in Kaniv was headed by Valentyna Kovalenko|website=procherk.info|language=Ukrainian}}

File:Kaniv Czernecza gora svitlycia DSC 3784 71-103-0006.jpg|Taras Shevchenko's chamber

File:Канів Шевченківський національний заповідник 2.jpg|Monument to Taras Shevchenko

File:Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kaniv-2011.jpg|Taras Shevchenko Museum

File:Kaniv Yadlovsky's Grave.JPG|The grave of Ivan Yadlovsky, the first caretaker of Taras Shevchenko's burial

• Kugno II Kaniv. Guide to the city and its surroundings. Kyiv: Pandemia, 2006, pp. 22–24. ISBN 966-8947-00-2
• [http://umoloda.kiev.ua/number/1710/164/60437 Shevchenko in 21 century] // Ukraina moloda, 5.08.2010 р., c. 14.
• «Серед степу широкого на Вкраїні милій…»: to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Shevchenko National Reserve in Kaniv (1925). [http://nplu.org/storage/images/NBV/Kalendar2(2015).pdf Dates and events]. Kyiv, 2014. pp. 36–40.

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• [http://shevchenko-museum.com.ua Taras Shevchenko National park], official page.
• [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CH%5CShevchenkoNationalPreserve.htm Shevchenko National Reserve] Encyclopedia of Ukraine

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