Kyiv region

Irpin

Hryhoriia Kochura street, 12

Grigory Kochur Museum

Grigory Kochur Museum in Irpen is a museum about the life and work of the outstanding Ukrainian translator and literary critic Grigory Kochur, founded in 1997 in Irpen. The museum contains personal belongings of an outstanding translator, his library, books dedicated to Kochur. The House of Kochur is closely associated with the dissident movement and the Sixties generation. It was here that Kochur's frequent meetings with such figures of Ukrainian culture as Lina Kostenko, Ivan Dziuba, Irina Zhylenko, Vadim Skurativsky, Opanas Zalyvakha, Ivan Svitlychnyi, Alla Gorskaya, Vyacheslav Chernobyl took place. On the ground floor there are photographs of teachers and friends of Kochur — Mykola Zerov, Maxim Rylsky, Mykola Lukash, Vislav Shymborsk.This museum is about the life and work of the outstanding Ukrainian translator and literary critic Grigory Kochur. After his death, in 1994, the translator's children decided to continue their father's work — to support the development of Ukrainian translation activities, to develop Ukrainian culture. A private literary museum was opened in the master's house in 1997. Visitors are hospitably received by the outstanding Ukrainian film and theater actress Maria Kochur. In the master's house in 1997, a private Literary Museum named after him was opened. G. P. Kochura, where they tell about the life of Ukrainian patriots of 60-70 years of the twentieth century. There is also a memorial exhibition of teacher G. Kochur, the eminent translator M. Zerov, an associate of the neoclassical literary direction. And, most importantly, a priceless library is kept, which helped the poet in his creative quest. Lviv University has opened a translation department named after him. G. Kochur, with the help of the Renaissance MF, the most complete collection of his poetic translations, The Third Echoes, was published.