Special 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...

Kostiantyn Vanchenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He was an actor, singer, director, and playwright, working in Mykhailo Staryts’kyi’s (1883-1890) and Heorhii Derkach’s (1898-1900) troupes, and later leading his own. His manuscript “Vitrohony: komichna...

Alexander Smakula (1900-1983) was a physicist, crystallographer, and inventor. He taught at Göttingen University and then headed the optical laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Heidelberg, and the research laboratory at the Carl Zeiss Optical Co...

Alex J. Zabrosky was born in Chicago in 1922. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Second World War. Following the war he served as a sponsor and helped families move to the United States. He would also help them find jobs at places such as...

Theodor Wacyk (1886-1968) was born in the town Kolodiivka, Skalat county, Galicia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, and later in Vienna, Munich, and Venice. During the First World War, he served in the Austrian and Ukrainian...

Stepan Vytvytskyi (1884-1965) was a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic party and of the political committee which prepared the declaration of 1 November 1918 by the Ukrainian National Rada. As a member of the delegation from the Western Ukrainian...

The collection consists of a report with photographs that examines and shows the changing cultural and architectural policy towards the historic Podil district in Kyiv, Ukraine during the second half of the twentieth century. The report was co-written by...

Kost’ Vahylevych was born in Iasen, Kalush county. He joined the Austrian Army in 1913, and was subsequently wounded, captured, and imprisoned first in Moscow and then in Siberia. Upon release he returned to work in Ukraine. During war with Poland he...

In December 1951 the Ukrainian Technical-Husbandry Institute Association was chartered in New York. This association was chartered as an education institution under the name of The Ukrainian Technical Institute on August 11, 1954, a modified continuation...

he Ukrainian Student Movement Records are organized into three sub-collections: 1) Records of the Central Union of Ukrainian Students (TseSUS); 2) Records of the Union of Ukrainian Student Associations in Germany (SUSON); and 3) Records of the Federation...