Prosvita

All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society named after Taras Shevchenko
Formation1868
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine
Chairman
Pavlo Movchan
Websitehttp://prosvitanews.org.ua/

Prosvita (Ukrainian: просвіта, 'enlightenment'), since 1991 officially known as All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society named after Taras Shevchenko (Всеукраїнське товариство "Просвіта" імені Тараса Шевченка) is an enlightenment society aimed to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture, education and science, that was created in the nineteenth century in Austria-Hungary's Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

According to the declaration of its founders, the movement was created as a counterbalance to anti-Ukrainian colonial and Russophile trends in the Ukrainian society of the period.

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