Shevchenko
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Shevchenko a family name of Ukrainian
origin. It is derived from the Ukrainian word shvets’, "shoemaker" and/or "tailor", and the suffix -enko, denoting descent. It may refer to:
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Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
origin. It is derived from the Ukrainian word shvets’, "shoemaker" and/or "tailor", and the suffix -enko, denoting descent. It may refer to:
People
- Artyom ShevchenkoArtyom ShevchenkoArtyom Andreyevich Shevchenko is a Russian professional football player. In 2009, he played in the Russian Second Division for FC Taganrog.-External links:*...
, Russian footballer - Aleksandr ShevchenkoAleksandr ShevchenkoAleksandr Shevchenko was a highly influential Russian avant-garde painter and theorist. In 1913 he wrote the book 'Neo-primiivizm', from which the Russian art movement derives its name....
, Russian painter - Andriy Shevchenko (footballer), Ukrainian footballer
- Andriy Shevchenko (politician)Andriy Shevchenko (politician)Andriy Shevchenko is a current deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament; a prominent Ukrainian journalist....
, Ukrainian journalist turned politician - Arkady ShevchenkoArkady ShevchenkoArkady Nikolayevich Shevchenko , a Soviet diplomat, was the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West.Shevchenko joined the diplomatic service of the Soviet Union as a young man and rose through the ranks of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, becoming advisor to Andrei Gromyko, Minister for...
, Ukrainian Soviet diplomat who defected to the West - Dmitriy Shevchenko (athlete), Russian discus thrower
- Dmitriy Shevchenko (fencer), Russian fencer
- Igor ShevchenkoIgor ShevchenkoIgor Vadimovich Shevchenko is a Russian footballer, who plays for FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.-External links:...
, Russian footballer - Irina ShevchenkoIrina ShevchenkoIrina Shevchenko, née Korotya is a Russian hurdler.Her personal best time is 12.67 seconds, achieved in July 2004 in Tula. She equalled this time in the 2004 Olympic semi final...
, Russian hurdler - Leonid ShevchenkoLeonid ShevchenkoLeonid Vladimirovich Shevchenko is a Russian professional football coach.-External links:*...
, Russian football coach - Lyudmyla ShevchenkoLyudmyla ShevchenkoLyudmyla Shevchenko is a Ukrainian team handball player, currently playing for the club HC "Motor" Zaporozhye. She received a bronze medal with the Ukrainian national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
, Ukrainian team handball player - Maksim Igorevich ShevchenkoMaksim Igorevich ShevchenkoMaksim Igorevich Shevchenko is a Kazakhstani professional footballer. He also holds Russian citizenship. As of 2009, he plays for FC Kairat. He made his professional debut in the Russian Premier League in 1997 for FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye Chelny. He played 2 games in the UEFA Cup 2001–02 for FC...
, Kazahakhtani footballer - Maksim Aleksandrovich ShevchenkoMaksim Aleksandrovich ShevchenkoMaksim Aleksandrovich Shevchenko is a Russian professional football player. He plays for FC Salyut Belgorod .-External links:*...
, Russian footballer - Olga ShevchenkoOlga ShevchenkoOlga Shevchenko is a Russian ski-orienteering competitor and world champion. She won a gold medal in the relay event at the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Moscow in 2007, together with Natalia Tomilova and Tatiana Vlasova...
, Russian ski-orienteering competitor - Sergei Yakovlevich Shevchenko, Kazhakhstani ex-footballer, champion of Ukraine 1992, currently a football coach
- Serhiy Vasylyovych Shevchenko, Ukrainian ex-footballer, currently a football coach
- Tanja SzewczenkoTanja SzewczenkoTanja Szewczenko is a German figure skater and actress. She is the 1994 World bronze medalist and 1998 European bronze medalist.-Biography:...
, German figure skater of Ukrainian background - Taras ShevchenkoTaras ShevchenkoTaras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
, Ukrainian poet and artist, iconic figure of Ukrainian culture - Taras Shevchenko (performer)Taras Shevchenko (performer)Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko was born in Moscow, Russia in 1984. He currently performs in the Cirque du Soleil show "Corteo". He is performing an act called "Paradise", as well as portraying one of the leading characters in the show - White Clown....
, Russian performer - Valentina ShevchenkoValentina ShevchenkoValentina Shevchenko is a Ukrainian cross country skier who has been competing since 1994. She won the bronze medal in the 30 km event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec....
, Ukrainian cross-country skier - Vasyl ShevchenkoVasyl ShevchenkoVasyl' Kuzmych Shevchenko - was one of the most active Ukrainian bandurists and torbanists at the turn of the 19-20th century.-Biography:There is not very much detailed information about him. We do know that he was a high school teacher in Moscow teaching singing, having also worked as a stagehand...
, Ukrainian bandurist - Vitaliy ShevchenkoVitaliy ShevchenkoVitaliy Viktorovich Shevchenko is a Russian coach and former Soviet footballer, currently head-coach of FC Rotor Volgograd. He finished the Institute of Physical Education and the Supreme school of coaches in Moscow....
, Russian former footballer - Vladislav ShevchenkoVladislav ShevchenkoVladislav Vladimirovich Shevchenko is a Russian astronomer specialized in lunar exploration. He is the Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State UniversityPositions in Professional Organizations:...
, Russian astronomer - Yegor ShevchenkoYegor ShevchenkoYegor Vladimirovich Shevchenko is a Russian professional footballer. In, he played for FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2002 for FC Shinnik Yaroslavl.-External links:...
, Russian footballer - Yevhen Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
Places
- Shevchenko, name of AktauAktauAktau , formerly known as Shevchenko , is a city in Kazakhstan's Mangyshlak Peninsula and country's only seaport on the Caspian Sea. It is the capital of Mangystau Province in western Kazakhstan...
, a city in Kazakhstan, in 1964–1992 - Fort-Shevchenko, a town in Kazakhstan
- Shevchenko Raion, a district of KievKievKiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
- Shevchenko, RussiaShevchenko, RussiaShevchenko is the name of several rural localities in Russia:*Shevchenko, Republic of Adygea, a khutor in Teuchezhsky District of the Republic of Adygea*Shevchenko, Kursk Oblast, a khutor in Sovetsky District of Kursk Oblast...
, name of several rural localities in Russia - Şevcenco, a village in Mocra Commune, Transnistria, Moldova
Organizations
- Kyiv Shevchenko University, the largest university in Ukraine
- Luhansk Shevchenko National Pedagogical University
- Shevchenko Scientific SocietyShevchenko Scientific SocietyThe Shevchenko Scientific Society is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication. Unlike the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine the society is a public organization that was reestablished in Ukraine in 1989 after almost 50 years of exile...
, a non-governmental Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, based in Lviv