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Alchevskyi Family Papers

Oleksii Alchevskyi (1835-1901) owned the Kharkiv Southern Russia Commercial Bank and financed a number of coal-mining and metallurgical firms in the Donbas. His wife Khrystyna (1841-1920) was a pedagogue and educator of adults. The papers include two...

Autographs

This autograph collection consists of letters and postcards written by Ukrainian scholars and cultural figures, including Serhii Iefremov, Nataliia Kobryns’ka, Bohdan Lepkyi, and stepan Smal-Stockyj, among others. Much of the material appears to have been...

Bazhanskyi Papers

Mykhailo Bazhanskyi (1910-1994) was a journalist, editor and writer, a prominent leader in the Ukrainian community of the United States, where he immigrated after the Second World War. Throughout his life he served on various editorial boards, published...

Berchtesgaden (Orlyk) DP Camp Records

Following the Second World War, Ukrainian refugees numbering about 200,000 were interned in Displaced persons camps in West Germany and Austria. Berchtesgaden (Orlyk) was one of the larger Ukrainian DP camps in the American zone with over 2,000 refugees...

Bilohrud Papers

Ihor Bilohrud, born in Romny, Ukraine, was a Ukrainian composer who spent the majority of his life composing, playing, and teaching music in the United States. In Ukraine, Bilohrud studied music at the Kiev Conservatory of Music. During the Second World...

Bratush Papers

Dmytro Bratush left Ukraine in 1910 for the United States, where he settled in Rochester, New York. He actively participated in both American and Ukrainian political and social life. The papers include correspondence from Ukrainian civic, community, and...

Butovych Illustrations

Graphic artist and illustrator, Mykola Butovych was born in the Poltava region. In the 1920s he studied in Prague, Berlin, and Leipzig. Butovych worked in Lviv, Western Europe, and, from 1947, in the United States. His work is based on themes from...

Chuchman Collection

The Chuchman collection consists of paper currency issued by the government of the Ukrainian state from 1918 to 1920. The notes include state credit notes worth 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, and 1000 karbovantsi; state credit notes worth 2, 10, and 100 hryvni...

Chyz Papers

Yaroslav Ilkovych Chyz (1894-1958) served as a non-commissioned officer and lieutenant with the Austrian Army during the First World War. After the Revolution of 1917, Chyz helped organize the Sich Riflemen and in 1919 served as a political officer on the...

Conference on Ukrainian Economics Records

The Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Temple University, organized a series of four conferences on the Ukrainian economy from 1975 to 1991. The first conference was devoted to an analysis of current...

Davyskyba Correspondence

Mykola Davyskyba was a resident of Mattapan and served as the president of the Boston branch of the Ukrainian National Association. The correspondence to Davyskyba includes letters from the Ukrainian Invalids' Help Association in Lviv, Ukraine, the...

Defense Of Ukraine, Branch 11, Buffalo, New York

Defense of Ukraine (Oborona Ukraïny) was a Ukrainian political organization of a radical socialist profile, established in 1920 in the United States to assist the political and military struggles for independence in Western Ukraine. The association had a...