Shevchenko Scientific Society

The organisation is named after the famous Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, Taras Shevchenko.

Under the presidency of the historian, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, it greatly expanded its activities, contributing to both the humanities and the physical sciences, law and medicine, but most specifically once again it concentrated on Ukrainian studies.

At the turn of the century the Cultural and Historical Museum,Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Society took an interest in the history and the archaeology of Ukraine.

[2] One of its most prolific contributors was the poet, folklorist, and literary historian Ivan Franko who headed the philological section.

The Soviet Union annexed the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic including the city of Lviv, which capitulated to the Red Army on 22 September 1939.

Other branches were also founded in New York City (1947), Toronto (1949) and Australia (1950), and throughout the Cold War it functioned as a federation of semi-independent societies.

Branches were soon founded in other Ukrainian cities and membership exceeded a thousand, including 125 full voting members.

The board and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida , Lviv , 31 October 1898: Sitting in the first row: Mykhaylo Pavlyk, Yevheniya Yaroshynska , Natalia Kobrynska , Olha Kobylianska , Sylvester Lepky, Andriy Chaykovsky, Kost Pankivsky. In the second row: Ivan Kopach, Volodymyr Hnatiuk , Osyp Makovej, Mykhailo Hrushevsky , Ivan Franko , Oleksandr Kolessa, Bohdan Lepky . Standing in the third row: Ivan Petrushevych, Filaret Kolessa , Yossyp Kyshakevych, Ivan Trush , Denys Lukianovych, Mykola Ivasyuk .
Shevchenko Scientific Society building in New York City.
Entrance to the Shevchenko Scientific Society at 63 Fourth Avenue in Manhattan