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[[Image:Shevchenko University.jpg|thumb|right|200px|National Taras Shevchenko University]]

The '''National Taras Shevchenko University of KievKyiv''' is the largest and most important [[university]] of [[Ukraine]] located in the [[capital]] city [[Kiev]].

It was founded in [[1834]] as the '''University of [[Saint Vladimir]]'''. First year it had 62 students at the only Faculty of Philosophy, which had two departments: The Department of History and Philology and The Department of Physics and Mathematics. In [[1939]], during the [[Soviet era]], the University was named after [[Taras Shevchenko]], the foremost poet and the iconic figure of the [[Culture of Ukraine|Culture of Ukraine]].