Updated: 4/3/2025

 A memorial plaque to Oles Honchar was installed based on the decision of the university's labor collective conference 

(protocol No. 3 dated December 20, 2019) 

Oles Honchar (April 3, 1918 – July 14, 1995) – Ukrainian writer, literary critic, and public figure. Laureate of the Stalin Prize, the first laureate of the Shevchenko Republican Prize, Chairman of the Writers' Union of Ukraine, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine (2005, posthumously) and Hero of Socialist Labor. A deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR representing Kherson region, whose trusted representative was M.M. Fedirko, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature.

Oles Honchar visited at Kherson State Pedagogical Institute multiple times. A brief record from May 23, 1966, testifies to a memorable meeting with students, faculty, and staff: “Meeting at Kherson State Pedagogical Institute. The highlight of the entire trip. Students are speaking… Wise words.”

During a meeting with students in 1970, Oles Honchar spoke about his trip to Japan and how educational and upbringing issues were addressed there. Recalling his novella Brigantine, he stated: “I was inspired by one of the schools in the Kherson region; I wanted to draw public attention to the issue of education and upbringing.”

Oles Honchar also had a close friendship with Pavlo Paraskevych, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature, PhD in Philology, and Associate Professor, who later published the literary-critical collection Oles Honchar and Kherson Region (2018).