Ihor Ševčenko, American philologist and historian of Ukrainian origin
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It originally called for a nine-story academic building to replace the Hewitt Building, a fifteen-story office complex to replace the engineering building, the removal of Taras Shevchenko Place (a tiny street honoring a Ukrainian folk hero between St. George’s Ukrainian Church and the site), and the development of a parking lot on 26 Astor Place and an empty lot on Stuyvesant Street into a hotel or for another commercial tenant.
Mokrytsky introduced Shevchenko to the Russian and Ukrainian intelligentsia: artists Karl Briullov and Alexei Venetsianov, poet Vasilii Zhukovsky, writer Yevhen Hrebinka, intellectuals Panteleimon Kulish, Vasyl Hryhorovych and others.
He died on 5 December 1941 in the village of Shevchenko (Tayshetsky District).
School № 110 named after Shevchenko for 2600 students in the "Ukrainian" district of the city (1969).
These Ukrainians were part of a company commanded by "Lieutenant Shevchenko" within the Battalion Mickiewicz -Palafox of the XIII International Brigade or the Dabrowski Brigade, which crossed the Pyrenees after the fall of Catalonia, and who participated in the resistance against Nazism.
Other awards include the Annual Achievement Award from the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Shevchenko Freedom Award presented by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and the Hunter College Hall of Fame.
William Geimer, an American lawyer, had been working closely with Shevchenko, and established the foundation as a vehicle to promote the writings of the former Soviet diplomat and those of Ion Pacepa, a former top Romanian intelligence officer; with the help of the foundation, both defectors published bestselling books.
In 1989 Shevchenko refused to sign prohibition against the People's Movement of Ukraine.
From Mykola Lysenko's letters it can be seen that at one time negotiations were taking place for Shevchenko to teach bandura at Lysenko's music school in Kiev, however it does not seem that they came to an understanding.
In 1963 Symonenko was brutally beaten up by operatives of the Soviet Ministry of Interior at the Shevchenko rail station in the city of Smila from which he suffered a failure of kidneys and soon died in the main oblast hospital on December 13, 1963.