09 March 2026

In Odesa, Shevchenko's birthday was celebrated with poems to the bandura

(PHOTO: Natalia Mikhailenko)

Taras Shevchenko 's birthday was celebrated in Odesa with a flower-laying ceremony at the monument and a concert on the bandura.

As noted by Intent's correspondents, the concert was organized by the artists of the Vasylko Odesa Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater.

Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9 in the village of Morintsy, then Zvenyhorod district, Kyiv province, in the Russian Empire - a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, thinker, painter, engraver, ethnographer, public figure, democrat, opponent of serfdom. He was a member of the Ukrainian national movement, a member of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood. Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

The flower-laying event took place in Pobot Park in Odesa with the participation of the heads of the city and regional military administrations and other officials.

Кирило Бойко

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