Ukrainian Collections

Rare Books & Manuscripts

(please note that not all rare book collections are located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)

Bode Collection of Litovchenko (Fisher Library)
Mss 09279
The collection includes the original diary and English-language translation of Dmitrii Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1891-1919), a Russian White Army Officer in the Preobrazhenskii Leib-Guard Regiment in Ukraine, written from January 7 to November 7, 1919, as well as a number of Litovchenko's certificates and other original documents.

Denysenko, Leonid (Fisher Library)
RB237449. Drawings.
A collection of 33 drawings depicting Ukrainian refugees in Displaced Persons camps following the Second World War.

Kaliuzhnyi (Rodion) Papers (Fisher Library)
Ms. Coll. 419. Papers, 1939-1982. 13 boxes.
The collection documents the life and activities of participants of one of the Ukrainian nationalist movements, the United Hetman Organization (Soiuz hetmantsiv derzhavnykiv), mainly from the 1940s to 1950s. The correspondence of Rodion Kaliuzhnyi, who served as secretary to Danylo Skoropadskyi, the son of the last Ukrainian hetman, forms a large part of the collection. The collection also consists of a great deal of correspondence between him and other participants of the hetmanite movement in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, France, Austria, and Switzerland. A considerable part of the collection contains material on the death and funeral of Danylo Skoropadskyi. Additional material relates to the activities of the Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain. There are also photographs of the Ukrainian community in the displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany, mostly Mittenwald, from 1946 to 1949.

Finding aid:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/Rodion_Kaliuzhnyi_Papers-1.pdf

Liubchenko (Arkadii) Papers (Fisher Library)
Ms. Coll. 345. Papers, 1923-1997. 9 boxes.
Liubchenko (1899-1945) was active in the literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s, as secretary of the literary association Hart, co-founder and permanent secretary of Vaplite, and co-founder of Prolitfront and the almanac Literaturnyi iarmarok.   He also served as editor of Volodymyr Vynnychenko's (1927) and Vasyl Stefanyk's (1928) selected works, and worked in the editorial office of the newspaper Vilna Ukraina in Kharkiv (1941-1942).  Liubchenko published collections of stories and novels, as well as articles, essays, and translations. 

The collection includes correspondence with writers (i.e. Khvylovyi, Kulish, Bazhan, Rylskyi, Tychyna, Ianovskyi, etc.), theatre personnel, film studios, editors and translators from the 1920 to 1940s; correspondence, minutes, statutes and financial records of literary associations Hart, Vaplite and Prolitfront from the 1920s to 1930; correspondence during World War II; manuscripts, notes, photographs and personal diary of Liubchenko; and assorted publications.

Finding aids:
http://library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/liubchenko_ukranian.pdf
http://library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/liubchenko_english.pdf
http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/Liubchenko/liub-archive-ukr.html
http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/Liubchenko/liub-archive-eng.html

John Luczkiw Collection of D. P. Publications, 1945-1954 (Fisher Library and Media Commons)
This collection of original materials was donated by the Luczkiw family in 1982.  It consists of 5,000 titles published in Ukrainian Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Austria after World War II and is preserved on 86 reels of microfilm. The collection itself is split between Robarts Library and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

CALL NUMBER   mfm DK508.44 .J65 2001
The finding aid to monographic items microfilmed from the collection is available online at the link:
http://wpjrc.library.utoronto.ca/publications/bibliographies-catalogues-etc/luczkiw2004.pdf

or search call no. "luczkiwdp" at: http://search8.library.utoronto.ca/UTL/search.jsp

John Luczkiw Collection of Pre-1950 Ukrainian Canadiana (Fisher Library)
The Pre-1950 Ukrainian Canadiana collection contains material on Ukrainians and published in Canada from 1900-1950.  Noteworthy items in the collection include the publications of various Ukrainian printing presses and publishing houses, including the Socialist press of the inter-war period.

Search call no. "luczkiw" at: http://search8.library.utoronto.ca/UTL/search.jsp

Lviv Oblast Party Archive (Fisher Library)
This collection consists of photocopies of documents from the local Communist Party of Lviv. Though they are only photocopies, their importance has increased as the original materials from which they are copied have since been either closed or destroyed. These materials also served as the source materials in Jeffrey Burds' The Early Cold War in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944-1948. There is no call number, so to access the collection ask at the reference desk of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library. Part of the Stalin Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP).

Millennium Collection of Old Ukrainian Books (Fisher Library)
The Millenium Collection contains twenty-one liturgical and scriptural books printed in what is now Ukraine in the 17th and 18th centuries.  The books are from the estate of the late Paul M. Fekula of New York, and were purchased in 1984 by the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation with funds donated by members of the Ukrainian community and friends of the Library.  The collection is named in recognition of one thousand years of Christianity in Rus’-Ukraine.  An annotated and illustrated catalogue by E. Kasinec and B. Struminskyj provides a detailed description of the books.

Finding aid:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pjrc/publications/millennium.pdf

Peter J. Potichnyj Book Collection on Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Ukraine, 1941-1954 (Fisher Library)
Ms. Coll. 332. Papers, 1941-1954. 224 boxes.
The Potichnyi collection includes German, Polish, Ukrainian, KGB and other documents related to the Ukrainian underground movement. Also included are extensive correspondence, clippings and other documents pertaining to the Ukrainian underground.

Finding aid:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/potichnyj332.pdf

Rempel (David G.) Papers (Fisher Library)
Ms Coll. 329. Papers, 1921-1989. 47 boxes and items.
Born in Khrotytsia, a German-speaking Mennonite colony in Southern Ukraine, David Rempel came of age during the Civil War. He immigrated to Canada in 1923 and then went on to study and live in the United States. He spent his career as an historian and teacher preserving the vanishing culture of the Mennonites in Russia and Ukraine. The collection consists of Rempel's documents, including correspondence, mainly pertaining to Mennonite history in pre-revolutionary Russia, and the effects of the Maknovshchyna and the emigration to North America.

Finding aid:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/rempel.pdf

Manguel (Alberto) Papers (Fisher Library)
Ms. Coll. 405. Papers, 1960-ongoing. 140 boxes.
The author Manuguel's papers include correspondence with Myrna Kostash, a creative non-fiction writer of magazine articles, books and radio documentaries. Much of Kostash's writing is connected to her identity as a third-generation Ukrainian Canadian, a prairie-dweller, a New Leftist socialist, and a feminist. She is the author of four books, notably the classic All of Baba's Children(1977) which documents the history of Two Hills, Alberta (a Ukrainian Canadian community northeast of Edmonton), and most recently the critically acclaimed Bloodlines: A Journey Into Eastern Europe.

Finding aid:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/manguel.pdf

Stadnyk (Halyna) Papers (Fisher Library)

Papers, 1937-1984.  1 box (2.5 linear in.)

The Halyna Stadnyk Papers focus on the activities of several members of the United Hetman Organization [Soiuz hetmantsiv derzhavnykiv].  Halyna Stadnyk is the main recipient of the letters in this collection.  Her principal correspondents are Natalia Doroshenko and Ielysaveta Skoropadska-Kuzhim.

Finding aid: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/stadnyk514.pdf

Sytnyk (Mykhailo) Papers (Fisher Library)

Ms. Coll. 578. Papers, 1939-1982.  2 boxes (56 files)

The Mykhailo Sytnyk papers focus on the life and activities of the Ukrainian poet Mykhailo Vasylovych Sytnyk (1919-1959; pseudonym: Mykhailo Chmuryj).  He published his poetry in a number of Ukrainian journals, as well as in several poetry collections: Vid sertsia (1942), Novi obrii (1942), Vidlitaiut’ ptytsi (1946), and Zaliznychyi storozh (1947), the last a narrative poem about wartime Ukraine.  The papers include correspondence with family members and Volodymyr Vynnychenko, photographs, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.

Finding aid: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/sytnyk.pdf

Andry Zhuk Collection of Ukrainian Socialist and Revolutionary Pamphlets (Fisher Library)

The Andry Zhuk collection contains rare publications relating to the history of the first Ukrainian political parties in the Russian Empire, the Soiuz Vyzvolenia Ukrainy (Union for the Liberation of Ukraine), the Ukrainian cooperative movement, and the Ukrainian communities outside Ukraine, principally Geneva and Vienna. The collection provides valuable historical information on the political situation and events among Ukrainians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War.

Search call no. "zhuk" at: http://search8.library.utoronto.ca/UTL/search.jsp

Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy Collection (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library)
From the description of Professor Martin Dimnik and Librarian's Assistant Caroline Suma:
The distinguishing feature of the PIMS Slavic Collection is its highly specialized nature. From the start of the collection (1971) the library purchased Slavic materials relevant to researching the history of Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy (i.e., from the 9th to the beginning of the 17th century). The library’s main aim has been to obtain editions of original texts, such as charters and the chronicles of Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy, which are the primary tools of research. Secondary literature that facilitates the study of the sources has also been selected with special care. These materials cover  areas such as political, ecclesiastical, monastic, cultural, and social history as well as literature, language, law, historiography, archaeology, art, architecture, numismatics, sphragistics, and genealogical studies.

Other Slavic collections at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Thanks to a generous grant from the SSHRC of Canada in 1985, PIMS purchased on microfiche many serial publications of Imperial Russia from the 19th and early 20th centuries. These cover topics such as Church and political history, antiquities, archaeology, law, and numismatics. Since 1980 PIMS has also been acquiring materials on the medieval Balkans. The same criteria used for purchasing books for Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy are applied here. The Slavic Collection was expanded to provide research materials for the study of the Slavs in the so-called “Byzantine Commonwealth.”

Microform

Assassination of Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, 1911, a collection of documents from the State Archive of Kiev Oblast, Kiev. 4 reels (Media Commons)
The collection contains documents relating to the investigation into the assassination of Pyotr Stolypin. Stolypin (1862-1911), after having served as governor of the provinces of Grodno (1902) and Saratov (1903-1906), was appointed in April 1906 as Minister of the Interior and in July 1906 was named chairman of the Council of Ministers in which capacity he served until his assassination. He headed the Russian government at a time of massive protests by workers and peasants against the autocracy. Though firm in suppressing the protests and repressing revolutionary groups, he managed to introduce governmental, economic, and agrarian reforms aimed at improving conditions for farmers. Stolypin's policies irritated not only revolutionaries but many people in positions of power. After surviving several attempts on his life, Stolypin was shot by Dmitrii Bogrov, a leftist radical and agent of Okhrana, in Kiev on 14 September 1911, and died from his wounds four days later. The documents concern the course of the investigation, and the sentencing to death of Bogrov.

CALL NUMBER mfm DK254 .S595 A77 1911

Finding aid: http://www.eastview.com/docs/Stolypin%20FA.pdf

Holodomor: the Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933, from the Central State Archive of Popular Organizations, Kiev. 158 reels (Media Commons)
The collection contains resolutions, directives and telegrams from the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party, the Soviet of People's Commissars and their mirror organizations in Ukraine; correspondence from local Party committees and executive committees of the local Soviets; official and private appeals of the regional party committees to higher Party authorities; memoranda and information reports from branches of state security, justice, and the prosecutor's office, as well as citizens letters. This material provides information about grain procurement policies in Ukraine; the escalation of food shortages, large-scale starvation, and mortality among the peasantry; political attitudes and political unrest among the peasants and some members of the grassroots Party organizations; and measures eventually taken by the Central Committee and the People’s Commissariat to contain the scale of the disaster.

CALL NUMBER mfm HC340.19 .Z9 F3 2004

Finding aid: http://microformguides.gale.com/Download.asp?CollDocid=9051000&page=1

Independent Press from Ukraine. 6,621 fiche (Media Commons)
A collection of 1,246 independent newspapers published in Ukraine between 1989-1996, and collected by the Central Academic Library in Kiev.

CALL NUMBER   mfm DK508.84 .I64

Title list compiled by Stanford University Library:

http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/slavic/ukraine_microfiches.html

Petro Jacyk Collection of Ukrainian Serials, 1848-1918. 400 reels (Media Commons)
The collection includes 175 newspapers and journals published in Western Ukraine (Galicia, Bukovina, Transcarpathia) during the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

CALL NUMBER   Titles are individually catalogued.

Finding aid: http://wpjrc.library.utoronto.ca/publications/bibliographies-catalogues-etc/Guide%20to%20newspapers.doc

Peter J. Potichnyi Collection on Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Ukraine. Moscow: Tsentralnyi Arkhiv Vnutrennikh Voisk MVD RF, 1994. 428 reels.
The second group of the Peter J. Potichnyi collection of the Counter-Insurgency documents come directly from Soviet archives. This collection covers 150,000 pages of documents, covering the activities of the NkVD-NKGB, and the MVD-MGB internal forces of the Ukrainian Okrug against the Ukrainian Liberation Movement during the years 1944-1954. After Ukraine proclaimed independence in August 1990, this archive was removed to Moscow.

CALL NUMBER    mfm DK508.79 .P48 1994

Microfilm index available in the PJRC

Peter J. Potichnyi Collection on Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Ukraine. Warsaw: Biblioteka Narodowa, 1990? 16 reels (Media Commons)

The Peter J. Potichnyi Collection contains two large groups of documents: those representing the insurgency and counter-insurgency in Ukraine and covers the period 1941-1954. Part one consists of insurgency documents that relate directly to the Ukrainian Liberation Movement. This collection contains documents from the Polish Ministry of Public Security (Ministerstwo Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego) and cover the period 1945-1948. The second part of this collection includes material from the Polish Security Archives and contains Ukrainian Underground documents captured by the Polish forces in 1947-1948.

CALL NUMBER    mfm DK508.79 .P482 1990

Finding aid available in the PJRC

Peter J. Potichnyi Collection on Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Ukraine. Washington: United States National Archives and Records Service, 1959-1982. 95 reels (Media Commons)
The collection is mostly from the National Archives of the United States, and represents a portion of documents that were seized by Allies at the end of World War II. This collection includes documents pertaining to the counter-insurgency activities of the German occupational forces.

CALL NUMBER    mfm D802 .U4 P47 1959

Published guide and index to microfilms available in Robarts Library (see under: Guides to German records microfilmed at Alexandria, VA).  Call number D735 .A58 (particularly vols. 28, 38, 40-41)

Prosvita Society in Kiev: the Ukrainian Struggle for Self-Identity in 1906-1920, from the State Archive of the Kiev Oblast, Kiev. 5 reels (Media Commons)
The collection comprises material on the Prosvita Society in Kyiv which was founded on 16 May 1906. The documents describe the work of the influential Kyiv branch of this important cultural and popular educational organization originally founded in Western Ukraine in 1868. Among the goals of the society were the promotion of Ukrainian culture and language through teaching, research, publications, and the creation of reading rooms, libraries, and schools. The collection of documents from the Kyiv branch includes records of the First and Second All-Ukraine Congresses of Prosvita; minutes of general meetings; statistical reports; correspondence; and the Society's memorandum to the Hetman of the Ukrainian National Republic, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, on making Ukrainian the state language.

CALL NUMBER mfm DK508 .A3 P76 2007

Finding aid: http://www.eastview.com/docs/RC774641_FA.pdf

The Secret Police of Hetman Skoropadsky: Papers of the Provisional Government of Ukraine, 1918. Minneapolis, MN: East View Information Services, 2006.  53 reels (Media Commons)

Records of the German supported provisional government of Ukraine of 1918, focusing on the government's Informer Division within the Ministry of Internal Affairs.  The collection documents the Division's searches and arrests.  Materials include evidence of secret agent recruitment and training as well as surveillance of Bolshevik party members.  These resources also shed light on the moods of the local population.

CALL NUMBER mfm DK508.83 .S55 S43

Finding aid: http://www.eastview.com/docs/RC760737_FA.pdf

Shtendera, Ievhen : osobovyi arkhiv : misiia UPA za kordonom / [ed. Myroslav Onyshkevych]. From the Central State Archive of the Highest Organs of Government and Administration of Ukraine, Kiev.  Rochester, NY: Applied Image Inc., 1993. 68 reels (Media Commons)

Ievhen Shtendera was a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) from 1943 to 1948.  He emigrated to West Germany where he studied at the Ukrainian Free University, and helped edit a number of nationalist periodicals.  Shtendera immigrated to Canada in 1956.  He has served as managing editor of the multivolume Litopys UPA (Chronicle of the UPA) since 1976.  His papers (1941-2004) consist of biographical material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, and other documents relating to the UPA, and memoirs of UPA soldiers.

CALL NUMBER DK508.834 .T74

Finding aid: Ievhen Shtendera Archive

[Ukrainian Regional Archives: A Collection of Guides to 38 Archives]. Minneapolis, MN: East View Publications, [1991-]. 204 fiche (Media Commons)
The collection contains guides to 38 regional archives with descriptions of holdings from the 17th century through the publication date. It is divided in three sections: Pre-Soviet, Ukrainian Nationalist and Soviet. Each section provides chapters on collections devoted to regional government affairs, legal institutions, educational insitutions, police, industry and more. The guides were published in 1958-1989.

CALL NUMBER    mfe CD2000 .U5 U57 1990

World War II Documents from the State Archive of Kiev Oblast. Part 1: Postcards Home: Postcards of Ukrainian Forced Labor Workers from Nazi Germany. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, [2003]. 75 reels (Media Commons)
In spring 1942, Germany began to draft occupied populations as forced laborers. Eastern workers (Ostarbeiters) were of both sexes between the ages of 15 and 60 years old. During their period of residence in the Reich, Ostarbeiters were permitted to write their relatives in the Ukraine. Their letters, however, never reached their intended destinations. Instead they were directed into a secret archive and kept "under arrest" until the early 1990s, when the entire collection was finally declassified. The collection of postcards contains the testimonies of Ukrainian, most of who had been forcibly removed to Germany. The correspondence usually got past the German censors, even though it vividly describes the conditions in Germany, the kind of work, way of life, spare time, treatment of Ostarbeiters by the Germans, and relations with representatives of other nations (Frenchmen, Poles, Belgians, and others). Many letters are highly emotional as the writers express their longing to return home and concern about relatives and friends.

CALL NUMBER mfm DK508.9 .K57 W67 2003

Finding aid: http://microformguides.gale.com/Data/Download/9126000C.pdf

University Archives

Eddie, Scott, M.
B2005-0027. 1961-2004. 22 boxes.
Scott Eddie (1935- ) is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 1971. He is the author of three books and several dozen articles and book chapters resulting from his research on the economic history of Central and Eastern Europe.

The papers include records relating to the appointment of Chair of Ukrainian Studies.

Finding aid: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utarms/findingaids/B2005-0027fa.pdf

Frolick, Stanley William.
B1988-0038. 1975-1985. 1 box.
Stanley Frolick (1920-1988) was a lawyer and a Ukrainian community leader in Canada. He held executive positions in several national Ukrainian organizations and was the founder of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Correspondence, legal documents, and minutes of meetings compiled by S.W. Frolick to support his contentions that certain events reported in the pamphlet, "The Five Years, related to the establishment of the first Chair of Ukrainian Studies", were misrepresented.

Luckyj, George S.N.
George Stephen Nestor Luckyj (1919-2001) taught at the University of Saskatchewan (1947-1949), and the University of Toronto (1952-1984), where he occupied the position of chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1957 to 1961. He took an active role in the establishment in 1976 and early years of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton, and served as associate director in charge of its Toronto office until 1982. Besides his numerous contributions as an English-language translator of Ukrainian literary and historical works, and as an editor and contributor to encyclopaedias, textbooks, and scholarly journals on Ukrainian literature, Soviet literary politics and dissent, and individual Ukrainian and Russian writers, Luckyj is best known for his books Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 and Between Gogol and Shevchenko: Polarity in the Literary Ukraine, 1798-1847.

B1995-0017. 1939-1995. 4 boxes.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, interviews, press clippings and photoprints documenting the career of George S.N. Luckyj as a professor and chair of the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Toronto. Included is a comprehensive account of the controversy over the establishment of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the U. of T. (1978-80), Professor Luckyj's diaries and his memoirs (1987), and the memoirs of his paternal grandfather (1942) and his mother (1970).

B1996-0015. 1 box and 2 oversized folders, and 2 audiotapes.
Records documenting the activities of George Luckyj as a professor in and chair of Slavic Studies. Subjects covered include assimilation and the Ukranian diaspora; the Encyclopedia of Ukraine; and (on audiotape) the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto (1980). Correspondents include Nikolai Tolstoy and Jewhen Swerstjuk (Ievhen Sverstiuk). Much of the remaining correspondence relates to Professor Luckyj's publications, for which there are also notes, research files, some manuscripts and reviews.

B1997-0032. 1 box.
Personal correspondence, 1971, 1987-1997; correspondence with publishers re History of Canadian Literature, 2nd ed. (1995-1997); letters from George Shevelov (1956-1997) and a chapter from his unpublished memoirs (1988); correspondence, notes and background material relating to the publication of selected letters of Panteleimon Kulish (1981); drafts of the first small thesaurus of the Ukrainian language (1997); photocopies of material from the Vaplite collection, Kharkiv (1925-1928).

B2000-0007. 1900-1999. 5 boxes.
Personal records of George Luckyj, professor emeritus of Slavic Studies at the University of Toronto, and consisting of: personal and family correspondence; letters of Ostap Lutskyi from the Gulag; correspondence and reviews relating to his publications, including publication projects with Kiev; course notes and MA thesis; notebooks; family photographs (1900-1994); photographs taken in Kosiv (1931-1936) and of the British Army in Germany (1945-1947); photographs for Professor Luckyj's memoirs; postcard designed by him; and four audio cassettes of 'end of year reflections' (1980, 1983) and for the making of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.

B2001-0021. 1869-2001. 2 boxes.
Personal records of Professor George S. N. Luckyj, consisting of baptismal
certificates of his father and grandfather; other personal and professional correspondence; correspondence relating to his publications (1955-2001); material for his memoirs and drafts of other publications.

B2002-0001. 1942-1946. 1 box.
Correspondence between Moira (McShane) Luckyj and her husband, George Luckyj during World War II. Personal correspondence written before and after their marriage on February 18, 1944. George Luckyj was serving in the British Army of the Rhine (1943-1947).

B2003-0004. 1971-2001. 4 boxes and photos.
Personal records of late Professor George S. N. Luckyj of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and family. Includes correspondence, manuscripts of published and unpublished works, notes and research materials on family history, photoprints.

William Kurelek Memorial Lectures.
LE3.T53 A553 UARC. 1978. 1978-

Audio-Visual

Ukrainian Documentary Video Collection (Petro Jacyk Resource Centre)
This collection consists of a series of 18 video cassettes produced by Kiev Glasnost Films, based in Toronto. They cover a wide range of topics about the country, including Ukrainian history, literature, film, geography and folk culture.