Monument to Taras Shevchenko
Description:
The monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kiev is a monument to the Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv, located in Shevchenko Park, opposite the Red Building of Kyiv University. It is one of the symbols of modern Kiev.
It was established in 1939 on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the poet’s birth. The monument to the founder of the Kiev Imperial University, Nicholas I, was dismantled by the Bolsheviks in 1920 and melted down at the Arsenal factory.