Yesterday, People's Deputy of Ukraine, critic, literary scholar, president of the "Volyn Brotherhood," director of the T. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Mykola Zhulynskyi, arrived in Volyn on a three-day visit. According to preliminary data, today he met with the deputy governor of Volyn, Volodymyr Karpuk, and with the rector and faculty of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University. Most likely, Mr. Zhulynskyi will take part in the III All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference "Lesya Ukrainka and the Kosach Family in the Context of Ukrainian and World Culture," which will begin its work tomorrow, February 24, in the Kovel region at the Lesya Ukrainka Kolodiazhne Literary-Memorial Museum. In addition, for Saturday, February 25, a literary-artistic evening dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the birth of our fellow countrywoman is planned at the Taras Shevchenko Volyn Regional Music and Drama Theater. According to some data, it is precisely during this event that Mykola Zhulynskyi plans to inform those present about the granting of academic status to the Taras Shevchenko Volyn Regional Music and Drama Theater. This information was not confirmed at the theater, although it was not refuted either. They only noted that today the theater director, Stepan Bereza, is in Kyiv on a business trip.