Today Shevchenko State University (Kiev) hosted the opening of the Russian Center.
The opening ceremony was attended by Executive Director of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov, Rector of Shevchenko State University, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Leonid Gubernsky, as well as Ukrainian politicians and public figures etc.
In his opening speech Vyacheslav Nikonov said that opening of the Russian Center at the country’s leading higher educational institution serves as evidence of a strengthening humanitarian partnership between our countries. The key goal of the newly open center is to develop into a comprehensive info source about Russia, its culture and literary heritage.
“Our cultures are united by such great names as Taras Shevchenko, Nickolai Gogol, Ilya Repin, Vladimir Korolenko, Lesya Ukrainka etc.,” Vyacheslav Nikonov added. “It is very symbolic that the foremost initiator of printing Ivan Fyodorov established a book printing tradition in Russia and published the first Ukrainian ABC-book”.
Rector of Kiev University Leonid Gubernsky thanked the foundation for establishment of the Russian Center, saying that the new facility would enhance cultural, scientific and educational cooperation between Russia and Ukraine.
