Professor Myron Korduba's Contribution Into Geographical Shevchenkiana

Rudenko Valeriy, Grek Kateryna. Professor Myron Korduba’s Contribution Into Geographical Shevchenkiana. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(5):110-118. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.05.011 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.05.011 https://zenodo.org/record/4810871 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2021; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.05.2021. Revised: 21.05.2021. Accepted: 26.05.2021. UDC 911.3:330.15 (914.77) Professor Myron Korduba’s Contribution Into Geographical Shevchenkiana Valeriy Rudenko, Kateryna Grek Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine Valery Rudenko – rudenko_valery@ukr.net, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7542-4399 Kateryna Grek – katerinagrek4@gmail.com , ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-2103 Abstract The article deals with most essential specificities of creative approach and major results of regional geographical studies of Taras Shevchenko, an outstanding Ukrainian poet and painter, disclosed by Myron Korduba (1876 – 1947), Professor, Warsaw University, in his T. Shevchenko as Regional Ethnographer and Archaeologist. It was accentuated that, when studying nature and local people, Taras Shevchenko preferred “a good pencil-drawn sketch from nature”; focused on specific natural phenomena, characteristic for this or that locality; put people and community, their culture and everyday life into a center of his regional geographical cognition. Key words: Taras Shevchenko; Myron Korduba; regional geographical activity