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Markisch, D. Hofsztcin, L. Reznik and E. Finn berg,but this plan never materialized. In 1937 a smallvolume of selected poems of Shevchenko, translatedby 1). Hofsztein, appeared in Kharkiv. That editionwas later supplemented by new Hofsztein translations,and came out in Kyiv in 1939 as TarasShevchenko. OekUbene werk. I t had two abbreviatedprintings in Moscow and Odessa the same year.In 1939, in connection with the 126th anniversaryof the poet's birth, a volume of his selectedworks in translations into various languages of theSoviet Union came out. The same year there appeareda full edition of Kobzar in Tartarian, underthe editorship of Musa Dhalil'. Also in 1939 a volumeof the Ukrainian poet’s work was published in Chuvashtranslations, and in 1954 it was supplementedby new translations of seventeen Chuvash poets. Thesame year, as sources in the Soviet Union inform us,selected works of Shevchenko came out in M oldavi a n, K i rk h i z, U z b a k, Tadjik, Bouriat-Mongolian, Karelian, Abkhazian andother languages of the Soviet Union.In 1951 and 1954 respectively, two volumes ofShevchenko’s poetry came out in China, translatedby Emi Siao and Dzan’ Te-Suan. There also existsan edition of Kobzar in Mongolian, prepared byS. Erdene and Chasbaatrom, but the year of its publicationwas not available to us. Recent numbersof a Soviet newspaper informed their readers of anedition of Shevchenko’s poetry in Korean.Shevchenko’s work was introduced to Spanishreaders quite recently. I t was only in 1954 that thefirst translations of his work appeared in Spanish,prepared by a Ukrainian scholar, Dr. Dmytfo Buchyns’kyjand published in the Madrid journal Poesiaespanola. In 1961 a Spanish translation of “Za~povit” was published in Argentina, translated byAngel J. Battistesa. In 1962 the poem “Sonce Za-25