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Hryhorii Shton was born in the village of Verbovets, Lanovets district, Ternopil region. He studied at the Ivan Franko Pedagogical Institute in Drohobych and at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Doctor of Philology , Professor of the Department of History of Ukrainian Literature and Shevchenko Studies at the Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.