Ukraine National Anthem English lyrics

“Shche ne vmerla Ukraina“ (Ukrainian: Ще не вмерла Українa, or “Ukraine’s [glory] has not yet perished“) is the national anthem of Ukraine. The lyrics constitute a slightly modified original first stanza of the patriotic poem written in 1862 by Pavlo Chubynsky, a prominent ethnographer from the region of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. In 1863, Mykhailo Verbytsky, a western Ukrainian composer and a Greek-Catholic priest composed music to accompany Chubynsky’s text. The first choral performance of the piece was at