On November 9, a scholarly academy dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian historian of the Ukrainian Cossacks, ethnographer, archaeologist and folklorist, Academician Dmytro Yavornytskyi, was held at the Volyn Museum of Local Lore, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.
For the commemorative date, the staff of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore prepared an exhibition of works by Dmytro Yavornytskyi from the library collection of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore, as well as copies of documents from the academician's collection, which were provided to the Volyn museum by the directorate of the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum.
The exhibition also features copies of correspondence between Lesya Ukrainka's mother Olena Pchilka and Dmytro Yavornytskyi, and Cossack character types from the album of Samotysh-Vasylkivskyi, on which the academician worked.
Particular attention is paid to Dmytro Yavornytskyi's historical heritage in Volyn. For scholarly research on the academician's Egyptian meetings with Lesya Ukrainka and research on the themes of Volyn and the Cossacks in his scholarly output, five Volyn researchers and scholars at once received the D. Yavornytskyi Prize.