Ukrainian

Dedicated in 1940 the Ukrainian Cultural Garden on MLK Jr. Drive is almost halfway between St. Clair and Superior streets.

At the entrance to the Garden is the imposing bronze statue of Lesya Ukrainka, the pen name of Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kivtka.  A very popular poet and writer and the chief female writer in the Ukraine.
The garden is composed of a series of brick and stone courts connected by gravel walks. The South Court of this formal garden is accessed through a stone and wrought iron gate where two bronze plaques and portrait reliefs, representing Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Mykhailo Hrushevsky were formerly present.  Central to the garden are three bronze busts that celebrate significant nationalist leaders in the Ukraine’s history: Ivan Franko, Volodymyr the Great, and Taras H. Shevchenko.

The three major busts were the work of Kiev-born Alexander Archipenko, who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Archipenko was a part of the cubist movement. His sculpture departed from classical sculptural design, using negative space in creative ways