George Shevelov's father, Vladimir Karlovich Schneider was a high ranking Russian Imperial Army officer who held the rank of major-general.
17 Facts About George Shevelov
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At the beginning of 1918, George Shevelov's father was missing in action and was presumed killed.
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In 1925 George Shevelov graduated from the First Kharkiv Trade and Industry Union School.
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George Shevelov is considered a member of the Kharkiv Linguistic School.
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In 1934, George Shevelov was the co-author of a grammar of the Ukrainian language in two volumes.
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George Shevelov was able to avoid induction into the Red Army and remained in Kharkiv following the Soviet evacuation and during the entry of Wehrmacht troops into Kharkiv on 25 October 1941.
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Later George Shevelov worked at the "Ukrainian Sowing" newspaper.
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From April 1942 George Shevelov worked for the city administration and collaborated with the educational organization Prosvita.
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George Shevelov has been critical of Soviet novels including Honchar's major work.
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George Shevelov lived for a brief period in Lviv, within the General Government, where he continued to study the Ukrainian language, including the creation of a new Ukrainian grammar until the spring of 1944, when the Soviets continued their drive westwards.
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George Shevelov was vice-president of the MUR, a Ukrainian literary association.
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George Shevelov was one of the founders and president of the emigre scholarly organization the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta and Lund University.
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George Shevelov was a founding member of the Slovo Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile and was published in numerous emigre bulletins and magazines.
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George Shevelov was almost unknown to Ukrainian academic circles after 1943.
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George Shevelov prepared and published more than 600 scholarly texts concerning different aspects of the philology of the Ukrainian and other Slavic languages.
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George Shevelov argued against the commonly held view of an original, unified East Slavic language from which Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian languages diverged and instead proposed the existence of several dialectical groups that had been distinct from the beginning and which later formed into separate Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian languages.
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Half an hour after the Kharkiv city council had established that the memorial plaque to George Shevelov was illegal public employees destroyed the memorial plaque.