Yurii Shevelov commemorative plaque in Kharkiv, Ukraine

[Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)]

Dear friends,

I'm forwarding this information and invitation to support this project  
upon request from organizers (please see below).

Very best,
Oleh Kotsyuba



COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE FOR YURII SHEVELOV IN KHARKIV, UKRAINE

The name of Yurii Shevelov, a prominent Ukrainian Slavist, linguist,  
historian of Ukrainian literature, a literary and theater critic, is  
hardly known in his home city of Kharkiv, where Yurii Shevelov  
(Shneider) was born in 1908 (died in 2002 in New York, NY).

Shevelov (known also under his pen name Sherekh) was one of Ukraine's  
leading scholars and intellectuals, he is author of 17 books in  
literary criticism, history, and linguistics (including "A Prehistory  
of Slavic: The Historical Phonology of Common Slavic" (1964) and "A  
Historical Phonology of the Ukrainian Language" (1979)), as well as of  
numerous articles that to a great extent shaped the field of Slavic  
studies. Shevelov worked as a lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian at  
Harvard (1952-54) before becoming professor of Slavic philology at  
Columbia University (1954-77). He was one of the most active and  
outstanding members of the Ukrainian emigré scholarly community, the  
president and co-founder of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences  
(UVAN) in New York.

To raise the awareness of the importance and to preserve the memory of  
this extraordinary scholar in his home city of Kharkiv, a number of  
activist and scholarly organizations launched the initiative of  
placing a Commemorative Plaque dedicated to Shevelov at the Salamandra  
Building in Kharkiv where he used to live in 1915-43. All necessary  
bureaucratic hurdles with the government officials have been  
successfully overcome. The plaque will be designed by Oleksandr  
Demchenko, based on drafts by Valer Bondar. The total costs of  
production and installation are estimated at 15,000 Ukrainian hryvnia  
(about 1,900 USD).

The organizing committee kindly asks for your generous support of this  
initiative.

Donations in US dollars can be made via a wire transfer to the  
following account in Ukraine from which the project will be funded:

Cheremskyj Kostyantyn Petrovych
26203601297885
PRIVATBANK, DNIPROPETROVSK, UKRAINE
SWIFT CODE: PBANUA2X

Events in support of this project:

March 5, 2013: Press-conference announcing the project and a  
charitable gala dedicated to the project (12 pm, Information Agency  
"Status Quo," 46 Artema St., Kharkiv), moderated by Zurab Alasaniia.

March 10, 2013: Charitable Gala "Concert for Sherekh" in support of  
the Project, under participation of Serhii Zhadan, Sashko Ushkalov,  
and others.

Organizers: Ukrainian Club of Slobidshchyna, Kharkiv Historical- 
Philologic Society, Hnat Khotkevych Foundation for National-Cultural  
Initiatives

More information and contact:
+38(063)2387014, +38(057)7623453, e-mail: cym-ua at ukr.net

Press release (in Ukrainian):
http://snip.dyvy.info/2013/02/08/4751/
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