Language expert Yuriy Shevelev

National Television Company of Ukraine, 2003. The issue of the author's series "Return from Nonexistence" by Larisa Masenko is dedicated to the biography and activities of the Ukrainian Slavicist and linguist Yuriy Shevelev.

On the video: photos of Yuriy Shevelev and his family members; quotes from the scientist; publications of Yuriy Shevelev's works; publication "Historical Phonology of the Ukrainian Language".

The author is Larysa Masenko, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Language at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

The following worked on the program: director — Iryna Shatokhina; director of photography — Oleksiy Mansurov; cameramen — Volodymyr Dembnovetsky, Oleksandr Sedzyukh, Anatoliy Podashevsky; production designer — Lyubov Khrystevich; assistant director — Nataliya Krokhina; editor — Olena Kasatkina-Melnyk; sound engineer — Oksana Kostromina; editing by Lesya Uzyk, Dmytro Kosmenko; text read by Yuriy Komar.

Reference: Yuriy Shevelyov (one of the pseudonyms is Yuriy Sherekh) is a Ukrainian Slavic linguist; historian of Ukrainian literature, literary and theater critic, professor at Columbia University, author of a scientifically based periodization of the chronology of the Ukrainian language.