On August 22, on the eve of Independence Day, celebrations will be held in the city of Kovel in the Volyn region to mark the opening of a monument to Taras Shevchenko and Taras Shevchenko Park, where this monument is installed.
As reported by the press service of the Ukrainian People's Party, this is the tallest monument to the Kobzar in the world. The height of the sculpture is over 7 meters, its weight is 20 tons, and the area of the park is 4.7 hectares.
Kovel Mayor Yaroslav Shevchuk reported that "the catalyst that accelerated the installation of the monument and the development of the culture and recreation park was the initiative of the UNP representative in parliament, head of the regional UNP organization, member of the Budget Committee Borys Zahreva, with whose assistance 3 million hryvnias were allocated from the State Budget, with the total cost of the project at 4.6 million hryvnias."
About 20 well-known public and political figures have been invited to participate in the celebrations, including Yurii Kostenko, Ivan Drach, Pavlo Movchan, Dmytro Pavlychko and others, as well as representatives of sister cities in Poland, Lithuania, and Russia, and the leadership of the Lublin Voivodeship of the Republic of Poland.