"Shche ne vmerla Ukrayina" (Ще не вмерла Україна), "Ukraine has not yet perished", is the national anthem of Ukraine. It is one of the state symbols of the country.
The lyrics constitute a slightly modified version of the first stanza of a patriotic poem written in 1862 by the poet Pavlo Chubynsky, a prominent ethnographer from Kyiv. In 1863, Mykhailo Verbytsky, a western Ukrainian composer and Greek-Catholic priest, composed music to accompany Chubynsky's text. The first choral performance of the piece was at the Ukraine Theatre in Lviv, in 1864.
