Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia is a Ukrainian English-language encyclopaedia in 2 volumes. The encyclopaedia was published in Toronto (Canada) by Toronto University Press and the Ukrainian National Association in 1969. It was prepared by the Shevchenko Scientific Society, [1] the editor-in-chief was Volodymyr Kubiyovych.
Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia is an English translation of the thematic part of the Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva (which was originally published in 1949). It was revised, and supplemented with up-to-date material by a number of research scholars from the US and Canada. [2]
The encyclopaedia consists of:
Volume 1 covers Ukrainian subjects including: history, demography, geography, language, and literature.
Volume 2 covers Ukrainian subjects including: law and jurisprudence, churches, scholarship and education, libraries, archives, museums, architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, music choreography, theater, cinema, publishing, media, economy, health and medicine, armed forces, and the Ukrainian diaspora. [1] [2]
A new revised and expanded English-language edition of the great ten-volume alphabetic part was published under the title Encyclopedia of Ukraine in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, and was only completed after Kubiyovych's death. It is presently being put on-line.
The romanization of Ukrainian, or Latinization of Ukrainian, is the representation of the Ukrainian language in Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, which is based on the Cyrillic script. Romanization may be employed to represent Ukrainian text or pronunciation for non-Ukrainian readers, on computer systems that cannot reproduce Cyrillic characters, or for typists who are not familiar with the Ukrainian keyboard layout. Methods of romanization include transliteration and transcription.
Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century. He is often considered the country's greatest modern historian, the foremost organiser of scholarship, the leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, the head of the Central Rada, and a leading cultural figure in the Ukrainian SSR during the 1920s.
Volodymyr Sichynskyi was a Ukrainian émigré architect, graphic artist, and art historian.
Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language.
Volodymyr Kubijovyč, also spelled Kubiiovych or Kubiyovych was an anthropological geographer in prewar Poland, a wartime Ukrainian nationalist politician and a post-war émigré intellectual of mixed Ukrainian-Polish background.
The Shevchenko Scientific Society is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication that was founded in 1873.
The Encyclopedia of Ukraine, published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies.
Isydore Hlynka was a Canadian biochemist, and Ukrainian Canadian community leader. He was born in the village of Denysiw, near Ternopil. He came to Canada at age one in 1910 with his parents, who homesteaded near Delph, Alberta, north of Vegreville.
Roman Sembratovych (1875–1906) was a Ukrainian journalist and publicist.
Kyrylo Studynsky, more precise Kyrylo Studynskyi (Ukrainian: Кири́ло Йо́сипович Студи́нський, was a western Ukrainian political and cultural figure from the late-19th to the mid-20th century. One of the principal figures within the Christian Social Movement in Ukraine, in 1939 Studynsky became head of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine following the Soviet annexation of Western Ukraine, 1939–1940, and led the delegation to Moscow that formally requested the inclusion of Western Ukraine to the Soviet Union.
Kievskaia starina was a monthly historically ethographic and literary chronicle. It was published in Kyiv during 1882–1907 in Russian, and then in Ukrainian in 1906.
The Mining Encyclopedia is a Ukrainian language comprehensive set of encyclopedias about the science and technology of mining. The encyclopedias were compiled by more than 100 of the leading earth scientists in Ukraine and overseas, headed by Volodymyr Biletskyy.
Clarence Augustus Manning was an American slavicist. He worked for 43 years at the Columbia University in New York, eventually being appointed chairman of the Department of Slavic Studies. He published a number of studies on Slavic languages, countries and people, as well as translations of important Slavic works of literature, and was a pioneer in opening the field of study of Slavic peoples in the U.S. beyond the dominance of Russian studies of the times.
Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba was a Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, dissident, Hero of Ukraine, academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the second Minister of Culture of Ukraine (1992—1994), and head of the Committee for Shevchenko National Prize (1999–2001).
Volodymyr Stefanovych Biletskyy is a Ukrainian mining engineer, D.Sc. scientist and researcher in the field of coal mining, publisher and political scientist. He has published many technical articles on the subject of mining, and was the initiator and editor of the first Ukrainian Mining Encyclopedia.
Leonid Ivanovych Rudnytzky is a linguist, professor of German, Slavic and Ukrainian Studies, co-editor of numerous American and Ukrainian encyclopedias, and scholar of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The Udai or Udaj is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Sula, in the basin of Dnieper. It is 327 kilometres (203 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 7,030 square kilometres (2,710 sq mi).
Volodymyr Osypovych Shukhevych – was a Ukrainian public figure, writer, ethnographer and teacher.
Sofia Rusova, was a Ukrainian pedagogue, author, women's rights advocate, and political activist.
Larissa Maria Lubov Zaleska Onyshkevych is a scholar of modern Ukrainian drama and literature. Most of her publications are on modern and postmodern Ukrainian drama, that she discusses in a comparative literature approach. Ukrainian poetry and prose, as well as issues of the Ukrainian language, are also topics of her interest.
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