Shevchenko National Reserve (Ukrainian: Шевченківський національний заповідник, romanized: Shevchenkivskyi natsionalnyi zapovidnyk) is a historic-cultural reserve near Kaniv (Ukraine), known for the grave of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko and a museum dedicated to his memory.
On June 10, 1918, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian State recognized the tomb of Taras Shevchenko as national property.
[citation needed] In 1939, a new, bronze monument to the poet designed by Matvei Manizer was erected.
[citation needed] The reserve is a cultural-educational, research and tourist center that studies and promotes the heritage of the Ukrainian national and world historical and cultural heritage, the work by Taras Shevchenko, the history of Chernecha Hill, as well as protects cultural monuments from prehistoric times to the present, as well as the natural landscape.
[4] Every year the museums of the Shevchenko National Reserve are visited by more than 100 thousand tourists from Ukraine and abroad.