Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1979, with the monument of Taras Shevchenko in the city of Shakty. Monument to Taras Shevchenko is a monument which is mounted in the town Shakhty in the Rostov region in memory of the Ukrainian poet and prose writer Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko.
The statue was placed in 1972 but in the early 1990s it was dismantled and a fountain appeared in its place.
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer.
His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though the language of his poems was different from the modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko is also known for many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.