Cherkasy regional council to buy the house of Taras Shevchenko

At it latest session the Cherkasy regional council allotted 100 thousand hryvnias from the budget to buy the house in Moshny village, where Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko used to live, ForUm learned from the press office of the council.

Taras Shevchnko lived in the house in 1859. The money is allotted to reconstruct the house into a museum for further presentation of a display. The works will be held in July.