As part of the Ukrainian Language Week (October 27 – November 2), a number of events were held in the Reserve.

The most eventful was held at the I.S. Nechuy-Levytsky Literary and Memorial Museum. The head of the museum, Andriy Khavrus, held a literary hour for students of the I.S. Nechuy-Levytskyi Steblivskyi Lyceum and the I.Sikorskyi Aerospace Lyceum (Kyiv), as well as several tourist groups, “Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi – the Legend of Ukrainian Literature” and thematic excursions “The Russian Philologist Who Defended the Ukrainian Language”, and gave a lecture “Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi on the Guard of the Native Language”. Andriy Serhiyovych focused on the work of the writer who was the first to raise the topic of Russification of Ukraine in the second half of the 19th century and emphasized that “Ukraine in Russia faces a very bad prospect – dark as night”.

Junior research associate Anastasia Petrukha conducted several excursions, during which she also emphasized the achievements of I.S. Nechuy-Levytskyi regarding the native language and its protection from the cold winds of history.

Kateryna Loyenko, a junior research associate in the Department of Nature Conservation, participated in writing the Radiodictation of National Unity at the Public Library of the Korsun-Shevchenko City Council, where she wrote it together with librarians, journalists, artists, and Korsun residents who are in love with their native language.

During sightseeing tours of the Reserve’s historical museum, scientists focused visitors’ attention on exhibits related to the Ukrainian language.

The tours of the military museum included stories about Oleg Sobchenko and Ruslan Storozhenko. Oleg Andriyovych was a participant in the Language Maidan, an active participant in the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war. He died on January 24, 2023, defending Ukraine. Ruslan Valeriyovych, the founder of the organization “My Language Stability,” died in the Russian-Ukrainian war. In May 2022, while at the front, he noted: “The Ukrainian language unites all Ukrainians, all those previously divided into Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking. Ukrainians are moving towards unity around their language, their native, not an imposed one.” Ruslan Storozhenko died on March 19, 2023, from a sniper’s bullet.