1. Volodymyr Mykhailovych Hnatiuk was a writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.
13 Facts About Volodymyr Hnatiuk
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk was a close companion of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Ivan Franko.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk was the director of the Ukrainian Union of publishing.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk was born on May 9,1871, in Velesniv, Buchach powiat, Galicia.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk studied in the Buchach and Stanislavska high school and University of Lviv.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk studied folk art in close contact with the socio-economic conditions of workers.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk systematically made a note of folklore in Eastern Galicia from 1893 to 1902.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk was buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk published a number of scientific publications about residents of Transcarpathian areas who are called lemky and about residents of Yugoslavia who are called Ruthenians.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk edited the works of the Ukrainian and foreign authors, translated into Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Czech, Swedish and other literatures.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk actively corresponded with Ivan Franko, Borys Hrinchenko, Mykola Voronyi, Bohdan Lepky, Mykhailo Pavlyk, Antin Krushelnytskyi Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, and others.
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In 30 years of researching and publishing, Volodymyr Hnatiuk published about a thousand different works.
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Volodymyr Hnatiuk was the first to push the Ukrainian folklore on the wide path of European science.