Opening of the monument to Shevchenko in Lutsk

Lutsk, 1995. The opening of the monument to Taras Shevchenko. The video shows the consecration of the monument, speeches at the microphone, laying of flowers.

Participants of the event: Anton Kryvytskyi, mayor of Lutsk; Mykola Zhulynskyi, MP; Valerii Kravchenko, Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine; Oles Lupii, secretary of the Writers' Council of Ukraine; Yevhenia Honcharevych, great-great-granddaughter of Taras Shevchenko; Anatolii Svidzynskyi, rector of Volyn State University; Vasyl Hey, head of the regional Writers' Union; poet Nina Hnatiuk; Mykola Onufriychuk, head of the regional Cultural Foundation; Liudmyla Prykhodko, People's Artist of Ukraine; Yosyp Strutsiuk, head of the regional organization of the Prosvita Society.