Two banks of one river
From today back into the past. Left: Ukrainians in Czechia. Right: Czechs in Ukraine. We do not hide an empty bank — our AI researcher is heading there.
Organisation · 1921–2026
Plast Czechia is a contemporary Ukrainian scouting organisation that reports activities in Prague, Brno, and Ostrava. Local scouting was revived in 2014, with a new Plast group established on 26 April 2015. Its work includes youth…
Organisation · 2024–2026
Rodná škola is a Ukrainian Saturday-school and cultural initiative operated through Rodná škola, z.s. (IČO 21908231, incorporated on 28 August 2024). A June 2025 Ukrinform report covers the end of its first school year, while the school…
Project · 2022–2026
Ukrajinské centrum Nusle is a community and integration project run by Pražský Majdan, z.s., in Prague. The operator dates its assistance work to 2022; municipal funding records document the project in 2024 and the Czech contract register…
Organisation · 2023–2027
Friends School is a Prague-based school offering a Ukrainian-oriented curriculum. A Ukrainian education registry records 2023 as its founding year. The Czech Ministry of Education lists permission for compulsory attendance at a foreign…
Place · 2020–2026
The Boršč is a Ukrainian dining venture in Prague operated by The Borsch s.r.o. (business ID 09739017). In 2026 it lists a restaurant at Dukelských hrdinů 967/10 in Holešovice, distinct from the company’s registered office. Reports about…
Organisation · 2014–2026
Pražský Majdan, z. s. (registration number 03771253) is a Czech civic association supporting Ukraine. Public activism began in 2014, while the legal association was registered on 11 February 2015. It organizes public awareness activities…
Organisation · 2006–2026
Erudyt is a Ukrainian Saturday school in Prague associated with SUSH ERUDYT z.s. (IČO 22867481). Sources date its origins differently: a Ukrainian education registry lists 2006, the school’s history mentions 2007 and 2009, and the Czech…
Place · 2024–2026
The building at Havlíčkovo náměstí 300/10, Prague 3, is distinct from the square bearing that name. Rodná škola lists it as a location for Ukrainian Saturday classes, while a Czech School Inspectorate report documents the independent…
Place · 2018–2026
The property at Uhelný trh 425/4 in Prague Old Town is used by the municipally established Brána jazyků primary school. The Ukrainian initiative announced Erudyt’s move to this address in September 2018, and Erudyt lists Saturday…
Event · 2023–2027
Měsíc Ukrajiny 2026 was the fourth Ukrainian cultural and theatre festival presented by Městská divadla pražská between 24 February and 24 March 2026. Its announced programme featured Ukrainian theatre, Kharkiv-focused art, discussion and…
Place · 2022–2026
Bistro Soloha is a Ukrainian bistro currently listed at Jana Masaryka 326/36 in Prague and associated with Smakolyky s.r.o., company ID 17569940. Operator posts from August 2024 refer to a second branch and also to Panská 1. The present…
Place · 1897–2026
Nuselská radnice is a Neo-Renaissance town hall at Táborská 500/30 in Prague 4, built in 1908–1909 to a design by Antonín Turek. The building has municipal and ceremonial functions. The Ukrainian Centre Nusle is a separate community…
Event · 1944–2017
The remains of Ukrainian poet Oleksandr Oles (Kandyba) and his wife Vira were reburied in Kyiv on 29 January 2017 after transfer from Prague. Ukraine’s government had issued order 33-r on 18 January, and the Czech Embassy reported a…
Organisation · 2023–2026
Spilka is a Prague-based Ukrainian cultural community organising literary events, social gatherings, quizzes and informal exchanges. Its associated registered association, SPILKA CENTRUM z.s. (IČO 19824653), was established on 1 November…
Project · 2023–2027
The Ukrainian Consultation and Community Centre (UCCC) in Prague is developed by ICMPD in cooperation with Czech and Ukrainian institutions. Consultation services trace back to 2023; community functions expanded in September 2025, the…
Organisation · 2021–2026
Ukrainian School No. 1 in Prague appears in a Ukrainian Ministry of Education list of institutions cooperating with the International Ukrainian School in the 2021/22 academic year. Its own website advertises full-day, Saturday and…
Project · 2026–2026
Znajko-Piznako is a Ukrainian-language preschool service advertising premises at Muchova 231/11 in Prague 6. Its website describes mixed-age childcare, music and speech-development activities and reports over fifteen years on its homepage…
Place · 2023–2026
Fingerova 2181/9 in Prague’s Stodůlky district is the registered seat of Plast – ukrajinská skautská organizace v České republice, z.s., registration number 19929307. A public registry notice records its registration on 9 December 2023 and…
Event · 2026–2026
The third Ukrainian Culture Festival was advertised for 16 August 2026 outside Cross Club in Prague-Holešovice. Its organizer’s website gave 11:00–21:00, whereas the venue’s calendar lists an end time of 04:00 the following day; those…
Place · 2026–2026
Pampuška is listed in 2026 as a Ukrainian bistro and grocery venue at Boleslavova 474/17 in Prague’s Nusle district. Waze, foodora and Wolt consistently list the address. Some provider URLs retain the older label Louskáček, which does not…
Place · 2026–2026
Ukrainian School No. 1 in Prague lists Štěpánská 568/10 in New Town as its contact location, and describes itself as a full-day school using a Ukrainian curriculum. Its legal operator, dates of occupation, premises agreements and…
Event · 2016–2026
Holešovická tržnice advertised Vyshyvanka Day on its Tržní náměstí for 21 May 2026, 11:00–22:00, with music, dance, workshops, a craft market and community activity. Its event notice names the Archetyp association and OPU as collaborators.…
Place · 2023–2026
TaTyŠo was a Ukrainian bistro at Zelená 744/4 in Prague’s Bubeneč district. A 2023 interview dates its opening to early that year. In 2026 its directory entry is marked inactive, while the same premises list a Japanese restaurant, EBISU.…
Place · 2007–2026
Gopak is a grocery shop at Komunardů 1129/27 in Prague’s Holešovice district, listing Ukrainian and Caucasian products. A directory gives business ID 27911471. The direct ARES record was checked on 2 November 2026, but its connection with…
2014 —
New solidarity
Person · 1961
Petr Pavel (born 1 November 1961 in Planá) is the fourth President of the Czech Republic, a retired army general, former Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces (2012–2015) and Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2015–2018).…
Project · 2024–2026
The ammunition initiative is a project that Czechia has coordinated since February 2024: the Czech side finds and buys artillery shells outside Europe, and other states pay for them (notably the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada and Norway).…
Person · 1964
Petr Fiala (born 1 September 1964 in Brno) is a Czech political scientist and politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2021–2025 and former rector of Masaryk University. On 15 March 2022 he travelled by train to Kyiv with the…
Project · 2022–2026
Dárek pro Putina (Gift for Putin) is a Czech public fundraiser launched in spring 2022 by businessman Dalibor Dědek and now run by Nadační fond pro Ukrajinu (the Foundation for Ukraine). The money buys military and civilian equipment for…
Organisation · 1992–2026
The Czech humanitarian and human-rights organisation Člověk v tísni (People in Need) has existed since 1992. It has helped in Ukraine since 2014 (home repairs, water, psychosocial support), and after the full-scale invasion of February…
Organisation · 1919–2026
Charita Česká republika (Caritas Czech Republic) is a Catholic charitable organisation founded in 1919 by the Czech Bishops' Conference; it consists of ten legal entities and hundreds of city and parish charities. After the 2022 invasion…
Work · 1989–2026
Porohy is a Ukrainian cultural and political magazine associated with the Ukrainian Initiative in the Czech Republic. Its own websites give both 1993 and 1994 as a starting year, requiring verification against the first issue. The magazine…
Organisation · 1989–2026
Ukrajinská iniciativa v České republice (UIČR; company ID 60448296) is a Ukrainian community association formally originating in 1994. It works in cultural and information activities and is linked to the Porohy periodical, whose first year…
Place · 1814–2026
The bronze monument to Taras Shevchenko on Kinský Square in Prague’s Smíchov district was unveiled on 25 March 2009 during a visit by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. Sculpted by Mykola Znoba, the project was initiated by the…
Organisation · 1989–2026
Sdružení Ukrajinců a příznivců Ukrajiny (SUPU; company ID 00506605) continues an earlier Ukrainian association formed after 1989. A Czech academic study describes the separation of UIČR around 1994; they remain different legal entities.…
Place · 1990–2026
The House of National Minorities at Vocelova 602/3, Prague 2, is a public cultural and community venue. It opened on 21 June 2007, became a public-benefit company in 2009, and since January 2025 has functioned as an independent municipal…
1991–2013
Independence
Czechs in Ukraine · 1991–2013
Czech associations in Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Chernivtsi. Dossier not compiled yet.
Person · 1874–1945
Augustyn Voloshyn (1874–1945) was a Greek Catholic priest, educator and political leader. He declared Carpatho-Ukraine independent on 14 March 1939 and was elected its president the following day. Following Hungarian occupation, he lived…
Person · 1884–1948
Edvard Beneš (1884–1948) was a Czechoslovak diplomat and president whose policies shaped the status of Subcarpathian Rus' and post-war Transcarpathia. He contributed to Czechoslovak state-building after 1918 and became president in 1935.…
Organisation · 1933–1944
Proboiem was a Ukrainian Prague-based journal and associated book publisher linked to Stepan Rosokha. The encyclopedia dates the magazine from December 1933 to January 1944; other catalogue summaries begin in 1934, while the book publisher…
Organisation · 1936–2014
Kolos was a private Ukrainian publisher operating in Prague between 1940 and 1945. An encyclopedic entry names I. Roman as its founder and estimates about twenty titles. Library catalogues document editions of Mykola Kulish, Leonid Mosendz…
Organisation · 1925–1999
Founded in Prague in 1925, the Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence collected records of the Ukrainian National Republic, military units, émigré associations, publications, photographs and artworks. Its holdings suffered severe…
Event · 1925–2025
The US air raid on Prague on 14 February 1945 severely damaged the building of the Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle in Nusle. Historical accounts by Mykola Mushynka and later researchers describe deaths, damage and the salvage…
Organisation · 1924–1978
The Society of the Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence was established in Prague in 1925 to govern and support a Ukrainian exile museum. It organized donations, membership and decisions concerning collections. The Society and the…
1939–1990
War and post-war decades
Person · 1895–1979
The Czechoslovak general and later president Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979) commanded the first Czechoslovak battalion in the USSR, which fought at the village of Sokolovo in the Kharkiv region in March 1943. In autumn 1943 the 1st…
Person · 1912–1943
The Czechoslovak officer Otakar Jaroš commanded a company that defended the village of Sokolovo in March 1943 and fell there on 8 March 1943. He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union; his memory is kept in Sokolovo and Kharkiv.…
Person · 1872–1955
Andrii Yakovliv (1872–1955) was a Ukrainian legal historian and diplomat who settled in Prague in 1923. He joined the Ukrainian Free University as a docent in 1923 and became a professor in 1928 or 1929 (sources differ); he served two…
Person · 1877–1945
Dmytro Antonovych (1877–1945) was a Ukrainian art historian, educator and political figure whose career linked Kyiv, Vienna and Prague. In Prague he taught and served as rector of the Ukrainian Free University, helped establish a Ukrainian…
Organisation · 1911–1939
During the interwar years, Czechoslovakia became an important centre for Ukrainian scouting in exile. Plast groups were active in Prague, Poděbrady, Řevnice and other towns. A Prague-based leadership structure emerged in 1925, followed by…
Person · 1882–1951
Dmytro Doroshenko (1882–1951) was a Ukrainian historian, diplomat, and university lecturer. He taught at the Ukrainian Free University and at Charles University in Prague, co-founded the Ukrainian Historical and Philological Society in…
Person · 1874–1943
Ivan Shovheniv (1874–1943) was a Ukrainian hydraulic engineer and water-management specialist who became the first rector of the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy, founded in Poděbrady in 1922. The academy initially operated in a hotel before…
Event · 1917–2026
The Prague School of Ukrainian Poetry is a retrospective literary label for an informal network of interwar Ukrainian émigré writers, including Yevhen Malaniuk, Yurii Darahan, Oleh Olzhych, and Olena Teliha. Although strongly connected to…
Person · 1902–2005
Nataliia Livytska-Kholodna (1902–2005) was a Ukrainian émigré poet and translator educated in Prague and active in the Poděbrady literary milieu. She published Fire and Ashes (1934) and Seven Letters (1937) in Warsaw. Her career…
Person · 1850–1937
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), Czechoslovakia's first president, supported an interwar relief policy that also benefited Ukrainian émigrés. Prague and Poděbrady became important centers of Ukrainian higher education. The president's…
Event · 1917–2020
Following the upheavals of 1917–1921, interwar Czechoslovakia became a major centre of Ukrainian émigré education and culture. The state-sponsored Russian Assistance Action launched in 1921 helped establish a network of schools, research…
Person · 1874–1935
Vasyl Bidnov (1874–1935) was a Ukrainian church historian and archivist. From 1922 he taught at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague and worked in Ukrainian institutions in Poděbrady. Sources date his move to Warsaw to 1928 or 1929; a…
Person · 1894–1926
Yurii Darahan (1894–1926) was a Ukrainian poet and officer of the Ukrainian People's Republic army. After internment in Poland he joined the literary community of Prague and Poděbrady and published his only lifetime poetry collection…
Person · 1899–1970
Oleksa Stefanovych (1899–1970) was a Ukrainian émigré poet who studied and published in interwar Prague. His writing combines Volhynian memory, Christian imagery and historical reflection. The imprint date of his collection Stephanos I…
Person · 1876–1940
Spyrydon Cherkasenko (1876–1940) was a Ukrainian writer, playwright and educator. After working in Ukraine and Vienna, he developed educational theater and youth literature in interwar Uzhhorod, then part of Czechoslovakia. He later lived…
Work · 1927–2026
Rozbudova natsii was a Ukrainian political periodical published in Prague between 1928 and 1934 as the organ of the Leadership of Ukrainian Nationalists. Czech library holdings and Ukrainian archival inventories identify individual volumes…
Person · 1849–1936
Fedir Shcherbyna (1849–1936) was a statistician and historian of the Kuban region who taught in Ukrainian émigré universities in Czechoslovakia. He served as rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague in 1924–1925 and taught…
Person · 1883–1943
Oleksander Mytsiuk (1883–1943) was a Ukrainian economist, politician and academic in Czechoslovakia. Following his service in the Ukrainian National Republic, he taught at the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady and the Ukrainian Free…
Person · 1878–1953
Borys Ivanytsky (1878–1953) was a Ukrainian forestry scholar and educator associated with the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady. His teaching and publications connected practical forestry with Ukrainian-language professional…
Organisation · 1922–1945
Established in Poděbrady in 1922 with Czechoslovak support, the Ukrainian Economic Academy educated Ukrainian émigrés in engineering, agriculture, forestry and economics. It also developed publishing and academic activities and brought…
Work · 1924–2026
Suspilstvo (La société) was a scholarly collection issued by the Ukrainian Institute of Social Sciences in Prague under the editorship of Mykyta Shapoval between 1925 and 1927. Three physical volumes incorporated paired book numbers I–II…
Person · 1882–1932
Mykyta Shapoval (1882–1932) helped build Ukrainian educational and research institutions in interwar Czechoslovakia. He headed the Ukrainian Civic Committee in Prague, supported new schools in Prague and Poděbrady, and founded a Ukrainian…
Person · 1897–1968
Yevhen Malaniuk (1897–1968), a Ukrainian poet and former officer of the Ukrainian People's Republic army, studied at the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady during the 1920s. His debut collection, Stylet i stylos, was published there…
Event · 1922–1938
R0103 distinguishes stages in the 1922 foundation of the Ukrainian Economic Academy at Poděbrady. Historical studies describe 22 April as the practical commencement of activities; the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory identifies 28…
Event · 1925–1934
R0105 addresses conflicting classifications of the founding congresses of the Union of Ukrainian Émigré Plast Scouts (SUPÉ), whose institution is already catalogued separately as R0048. A Plast historical account reports the first Prague…
Organisation · 1920–1945
Established in Prague in 1924, the Ukrainian Institute of Sociology developed social-science research, published the journal Suspil'stvo, maintained collections, and supported correspondence education. Mykyta Shapoval was its leading…
Organisation · 1924–2026
The Prague publishing society Siiach was established in 1924 in the educational environment of the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute. It supplied Ukrainian-language teaching and scholarly material, including…
Place · 1905–2026
Poděbrady Castle is a Czech historic landmark associated with King George of Poděbrady and the development of the spa town. During the interwar period it housed the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy, founded in 1922. The academy originally…
Work · 1902–2026
Fire and Ashes (1934) is the first poetry collection by Natalia Livytska-Kholodna, published in Warsaw by the Ukrainian émigré publisher Variah. Its modernist love poetry provoked diverging contemporary reactions and is now studied in…
Work · 1902–2005
Seven Letters (1937) is Natalia Livytska-Kholodna’s second poetry collection, issued in Warsaw by the Ukrainian émigré press Variah. The title evokes the seven letters of the Ukrainian word for Ukraine, and literary criticism reads the…
Person · 1856–1940
Sofiia Rusova (1856–1940) was a Ukrainian educator, writer and women's rights organizer. In interwar Czechoslovakia she taught at Ukrainian educational institutions in Prague and Poděbrady and contributed to care initiatives for émigré…
Person · 1907–1944
Oleh Olzhych (1907–1944), born Oleh Kandyba, was a Ukrainian poet, archaeologist and political activist, and a son of the poet Oleksandr Oles. Educated in Prague, he completed studies at Charles University and researched Neolithic painted…
Person · 1906–1942
Olena Teliha (1906–1942) was a Ukrainian poet whose intellectual formation took place in interwar Czechoslovakia. She lived mainly in Poděbrady, studied in Prague, and participated in émigré cultural life. Later she worked in Nazi-occupied…
Person · 1878–1944
Oleksandr Oles (1878–1944), born Oleksandr Kandyba, was a Ukrainian poet and playwright whose Prague residence began in 1923 or 1924 according to conflicting sources, and continued until his death. His émigré writings combined lyric poetry…
Person · 1870–1935
Stanyslav Dnistriansky (1870–1935) was a Ukrainian jurist and university professor who helped establish the Ukrainian Free University and served as its rector in 1922–23. His work ranged from civil-law theory to two distinct constitutional…
Organisation · 1921–1934
The Ukrainian Civic Committee in Czechoslovakia (1921–1925) provided legal, social, and educational support to Ukrainian émigrés. Led by Mykyta Shapoval, it helped establish Ukrainian higher-education institutions in Prague and Poděbrady.…
Organisation · 1921–1945
The Ukrainian Historical and Philological Society in Prague (1923–1945) was a major scholarly center of Ukrainian intellectual emigration. Chaired by Dmytro Antonovych, it held hundreds of meetings, published five volumes of scholarly…
Organisation · 1926–1942
The Ukrainian Society of Book Lovers in Prague (1927–1942) brought together Ukrainian librarians, bibliographers and publishers. Emerging from the 1926 international librarians' congress, it cooperated with Czech institutions, published…
Organisation · 1921–1932
The Ukrainian Civic Publishing Fund was a significant publisher of Ukrainian exile scholarship and literature in interwar Prague. A scholarly study dates its foundation to 1921, while some catalogues use 1923. Documented imprints include…
Work · 1926–1996
Knyholiub was a Ukrainian bibliographic and book-history periodical published in Prague in 1927–1932 by the Ukrainian Society of Friends of the Book. Its short-run issues connected Ukrainian émigré scholarship with Czech librarianship.…
Event · 1920–1945
The Ukrainian Free University was established in Vienna early in 1921 and moved its academic activities to Prague after its first semester. The university’s institutional history and Czech National Library materials support an autumn 1921…
Event · 1925–2025
R0104 is the foundation event of Prague’s Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle in May 1925. Ukrainian Free University academics, notably art historian Dmytro Antonovych, were closely associated with the initiative. A historical…
Person · 1867–1945
Oleksander Kolessa (1867–1945) was a Ukrainian philologist, literary historian, and organizer of émigré scholarship in Prague. He served multiple terms as rector of the Ukrainian Free University and maintained documented scholarly contacts…
Person · 1881–1950
Serhii Tymoshenko (1881–1950) was a Ukrainian architect, educator, and public figure. During the 1920s he taught at the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady and helped develop Ukrainian art education in Prague. Sources differ on the…
Organisation · 1921–1939
Based in Prague during the 1930s, the Union of Ukrainian Émigré Scouts coordinated Ukrainian scouting groups in several European countries. It developed from earlier Ukrainian scout units active in Czechoslovakia since the early 1920s. The…
Work · 1922–2023
*Sahaidak* is a poetry collection by Yurii Darahan, published in Prague in 1925 by the Ukrainian Civic Publishing Fund. A library record identifies the volume as Book One, containing poems from 1922–1924 and comprising 64 pages. Recent…
Work · 1922–2026
Nova Ukraina was a Prague-based Ukrainian political and cultural periodical issued from 1922 to 1928. Initially fortnightly, it became a monthly publication in 1923. Its shifting editorial board and diverse contributors make issue-level…
Work · 1923–2026
Proceedings of the Ukrainian Historical-Philological Society in Prague comprise five documented volumes issued in 1926, 1939, 1941, 1942 and 1944. The series preserves a major record of Ukrainian émigré scholarship. A catalogue description…
Work · 1917–2023
*Stylet i stylos* is Yevhen Malaniuk’s first poetry collection, published in Poděbrady in 1925 by a publisher named “Kyiv.” A library catalogue records 47 pages and poems from 1923–1924. “Kyiv” in the imprint is the publisher’s name, not…
Work · 1918–2026
Earth and Iron is Yevhen Malaniuk's third poetry collection, published in Paris by Tryzub in 1930. It reflects the upheavals of Ukraine's struggle for independence and belongs to the author's transnational literary career rooted in…
Work · 1899–2020
Stephanos I is a Prague poetry collection by Ukrainian émigré Oleksa Stefanovych, issued by Dniprovi Porohy. A surviving library copy is catalogued as 79 pages plus one unnumbered page. Its date remains unresolved: scholarly references…
Person · 1866–1934
Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was a Ukrainian historian and chairman of the Ukrainian Central Rada. His 1919–1924 exile connected him to Central European intellectual networks. A letter from Vienna dated 7 May 1923 to the poet Oleksandr…
Organisation · 1923–1945
The Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute operated in Prague from 1923 to 1933. Established by Ukrainian émigrés within a supportive Czechoslovak environment, it trained teachers and sustained Ukrainian-language…
Organisation · 1922–2026
The Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts was established in Prague in late 1923 by Ukrainian émigré artists led by Dmytro Antonovych. The school taught painting, drawing, graphic art, sculpture and architecture, welcoming Czech and Slovak…
Organisation · 1921–1943
Founded in 1923, the Ukrainian Women's Union in Czechoslovakia organized practical assistance to émigrés, supported students and children, ran a community dining space and developed ties with Czech and international women's organizations.…
Organisation · 1919–1945
The Ukrainian Academic Hromada began in Prague in 1919 as a student association and adopted its later name in 1920. It connected Ukrainian students across educational institutions, supported their cultural life, and published student…
Place · 1925–2025
Řevnice is a Czech town closely associated with the Ukrainian secondary school established in Prague in 1925 and located in Řevnice approximately from 1927/1928 to 1937. Czech library and local sources date the transfer to 1927, while a…
Person · 1872–1959
Stepan Siropolko (1872–1959) was a Ukrainian educator, education historian and bibliographer. In interwar Prague he taught at the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute, helped organize a society of Ukrainian book lovers and edited the journal…
Organisation · 1921–1950
Founded in Vienna in January 1921, the Ukrainian Free University moved to Prague later that year. With support from the Czechoslovak government and cooperation with Charles University, it developed into a major academic institution for…
Organisation · 1925–1956
Established in Prague in March 1925 as part of the Drahomanov Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute, the Ukrainian Real Gymnasium offered Ukrainian-language secondary education to emigrants' children. It fostered student publications and later…
Organisation · 1922–1977
Founded at a Prague student congress in 1922, the Central Union of Ukrainian Students coordinated Ukrainian student associations across countries. It facilitated representation, assistance, international contacts, and publishing. Its…
1920–1938
Interwar Prague
Person · 1850–1937
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), Czechoslovakia's first president, supported an interwar relief policy that also benefited Ukrainian émigrés. Prague and Poděbrady became important centers of Ukrainian higher education. The president's…
Person · 1882–1952
The Czech writer Ivan Olbracht often stayed in Subcarpathian Rus in 1931–1936, settled in Koločava and wrote the reportage Země bez jména (1932), the novel Nikola Šuhaj loupežník (1933) and other works about the region. According to Czech…
Person · 1874–1967
Josef Girsa was born in Shepetivka into a Czech family and until 1917 managed estates and enterprises in the Russian Empire, including in the Podolia, Kyiv and Chernihiv governorates. On 28 June 1921 he headed the Czechoslovak trade…
Person · 1878–1950
Zinaida Mirna (1875/1878–1950) was a Ukrainian civic leader, member of the Central Rada and an organizer of the women's movement. Based in Prague from 1924, she led émigré assistance activities and helped safeguard Ukrainian museum…
Organisation · 1918–2026
Vsesvit was a Ukrainian cooperative publishing initiative established in Prague in 1919. A documented imprint is Dmytro Doroshenko's Hungarian Ukraine (Prague: Vsesvit, 1919), number one in an informational series. A Kyiv archival…
Person · 1868–1945
Maksym Slavinsky (1868–1945) was a Ukrainian journalist, translator and diplomat who headed the Ukrainian People's Republic mission in Prague from 1919 to 1923. He subsequently taught at Ukrainian émigré institutions. Arrested in Prague in…
Organisation · 1918–2022
The Ukrainian People's Republic operated an extraordinary diplomatic mission in Prague from 1919 to 1923, headed by Maksym Slavinsky. Its work included correspondence, identity documents and economic negotiations, including an oil-supply…
Organisation · 1908–2026
Chas was a Ukrainian publishing house established in Kyiv in 1908. A Prague branch operated from 1919 under the initiative of Vasyl Koroliv-Staryi, issuing multilingual materials and imprints bearing Kyiv–Prague publication data. Its…
Event · 1917–1917
The Battle of Zborov took place on 1–2 July 1917 (the main fighting was on 2 July) near the town of Zboriv in Galicia, now in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The Czechoslovak Riflemen Brigade, serving in the Russian army during the Kerensky…
1914–1921
First World War
Event · 1917–1917
The Battle of Zborov took place on 1–2 July 1917 (the main fighting was on 2 July) near the town of Zboriv in Galicia, now in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The Czechoslovak Riflemen Brigade, serving in the Russian army during the Kerensky…
Person · 1883–1923
The Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), author of The Good Soldier Švejk, was captured by the Russians at Chorupany near Dubno in Volhynia on 24 September 1915, joined the Czechoslovak units and lived and worked in Kyiv from 1916 to…
Person · 1875–1954
Václav Girsa was born in Shepetivka into a family of Volhynian Czechs, studied in Kamianets-Podilskyi and from 1902 or 1903 worked as a physician in Kyiv. During the First World War he was a member of the Kyiv Czech Committee, set up a…
Person · 1857–1924
The businessman Jindřich Jindříšek worked in Kyiv from the early 1880s, where he opened a music-instrument shop, chaired the Czech Jan Amos Komenský society and the Kyiv Czech committee and supported the Czechoslovak movement. After the…
Ukrainians in Czechia · Czech settlers
Dossier not compiled yet.
1860–1914
Czech settlers
Event · 1868–1947
The Volhynian Czechs are descendants of emigrants from Bohemia and Moravia who, from 1868 (earlier according to some sources), bought land in the Volhynia Governorate of the Russian Empire and founded Czech villages with schools…
Person · 1852–1934
The Czech violinist and teacher Otakar Ševčík (1852–1934) taught violin from 1875 to 1892 at the music school of the Kyiv branch of the Russian Musical Society. According to Ukrainian Wikipedia he had briefly worked at the Kharkiv music…
Person · 1865–1931
The conductor of Czech origin Jan Palice, known as Ivan Osipovych Palytsyn (1865–1931), studied at the Kyiv Music School with the violinist Otakar Ševčík. In 1901–1906 he was chief conductor of the newly built Kyiv Opera House, where in…
Person · 1853–1929
The Czech mechanical engineer and politician Ferdinand Vitáček (1853–1929) worked in Kyiv from the 1880s until 1912: according to Czech Wikipedia he arrived in 1880 to build a branch of a works, and in 1896 became director of the First…
Person · 1867–1916
The Czech violin maker František Špidlen (1867–1916) worked from 1886 in Kyiv in the workshop of his compatriot Jindřich Jindříšek, and in 1895, according to Czech Wikipedia, obtained his own trade licence there. The Encyclopedia of Modern…
Person · 1858–1920
Theodor (Fedir) Hejda (1858–1920), a native of Plzeň, was a teacher and Orthodox priest among the Czechs of Volhynia. According to Czech Wikipedia he became a priest in Kvasyliv in 1889 and on 16 April that year began holding services in…
Person · 1847–1927
The Czech opera singer (tenor), director and teacher Antonín Barcal (1847–1927) won an engagement with the Kyiv opera company after concerts in Russia in 1870. According to the Czech Theatre Encyclopedia he toured with the Kyiv company to…
Person · 1856–1916
Ivan Franko (1856–1916) visited Prague in May 1891 for a gathering of progressive Slavic students. His surviving letters to Czech ethnographer František Řehoř document exchanges of books and scholarly periodicals, as well as cooperation on…
Person · 1845–1918
Ivan Puluj (1845–1918), a physicist and electrical engineer of Ukrainian origin, spent the final decades of his career in Prague. He served as rector of the German Technical University in 1888/89, contributed to electrical engineering and…
Person · 1859–1938
Stepan Smal-Stotsky (1859–1938) was a Ukrainian linguist, educator and public figure from Bukovyna. He represented West Ukrainian interests, taught at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague and supported the Museum of Ukraine's Struggle…
Place · 1628–2026
Malvazinky Cemetery in Prague 5 is a historic burial ground established in 1876 to a plan by Antonín Barvitius. The grave of Ukrainian physicist and translator Ivan Puliui is officially recorded in section AII, grave 25. Since 2018, the…
Person · 1888–1966
Natalena Koroleva (1888–1966) was a Ukrainian writer of historical and mythological prose. Encyclopedic biographies date her Prague diplomatic period to 1919; the preface to a 2003 bibliographical guide places her arrival in early 1920.…
Place · 1896–2026
Poděbrady Municipal Cemetery in Kluk is a protected Art Nouveau heritage site associated with Josef Fanta, František Thomayer, and František Bílek. It also preserves the memory of Ukrainian émigrés linked to the Ukrainian Husbandry…
Event · 1874–2026
R0101 documents the preparation, printing and circulation of the two-volume Prague Kobzar of Taras Shevchenko in 1875–1876. The Vernadsky National Library catalogues the 1876 Prague imprint, while a historical-library study distinguishes…
Person · 1854–1942
Ivan Horbaczewski (1854–1942) was a Ukrainian-born chemist and physician whose academic career shaped medical chemistry in Prague. He served as rector of the Czech university in 1902/03, conducted important research on uric acid and later…
Place · 1680–2026
Olšany Cemeteries are a major historic burial complex in Prague, originating in 1680 and linked to the memory of Ukrainian interwar émigrés. The poet Oleksandr Oles was buried there until his remains were repatriated to Kyiv in 2017. The…
Place · 1845–2026
Ivan Puliui’s memorial plaque is in Prague’s Smíchov district. The memorial directory and Ivo Kraus’s article give Preslova 15; an earlier editorial reference to Preslova 5 comes from a catalogue that is now inaccessible and has not been…
Place · 1088–2026
Nusle is a historical Prague district and cadastral territory. A municipal encyclopedia records an earliest written reference in 1088, elevation to town status in 1898, and incorporation into Greater Prague on 1 January 1922. Most of the…
Organisation · 1902–1941
“Ukrainian Student Community of Prague” is a provisional research label. Archival fonds 4032 documents a “Ukrainian Hromada” society in 1902–1908, including records of aid to students. Its identity must not be conflated with the Ukrainian…
Work · 1840–2026
The two-volume Prague edition of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar bears the imprint year 1876, although its first volume was printed in late 1875. Ukrainian editors and organizers including Sofiia and Oleksandr Rusov and Fedir Vovk worked with…
Person · 1865–1944
The Czech archaeologist, Slavist and ethnologist Lubor Niederle, author of Slavic Antiquities, according to the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine proposed the Vistula-Dnieper theory of the Slavic homeland, visited Kyiv in 1893 and 1899 and…
XIX
National revival
Person · 1831–1908
Josef Hlávka (1831–1908) was a Czech architect, builder and patron whose design shaped the Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans in Chernivtsi. Constructed between 1864 and 1882, the ensemble now belongs to Chernivtsi…
Person · 1850–1914
Born in Bohemia, Čeněk Chvojka (1850–1914), also known as Vikentiy Khvoyka, moved to Kyiv in 1876. He later became a pioneering archaeologist in the Dnipro region, contributing to the study of prehistoric sites and the foundation of Kyiv's…
Person · 1857–1899
František Řehoř (1857–1899) was a Czech ethnographer and collector who spent years documenting everyday life in eastern Galicia. He maintained intellectual contacts with Ukrainian writers, including Ivan Franko, and contributed objects and…
Person · 1857–1910
Josef Křivánek (1857–1910), a Czech engineer from Hořovice, became a leading figure in the development of a major machine-building works in Kyiv's Shuliavka district. The original plant had been established in 1882 by Jacob Grether and…
Person · 1870–1961
Tomáš Nejedlý (1870–1961) was a Czech businessman from Hořovice who moved to Kyiv in 1890 to work in the industrial enterprise of his uncle, Josef Křivánek. In 1898 he co-founded the Nejedlý & Ungermann foundry in the Shuliavka district.…
Person · 1855–1937
The Czech conductor, composer and teacher Josef Přibík conducted at opera theatres in Kharkiv, Lviv and Kyiv and, from 1894, in Odesa, where he became a conservatory professor in 1919. According to the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine he…
Person · 1872–1945
The Czech pianist and teacher Vilém Kurz moved to Lviv in 1898 at the invitation of the Galician Music Society and taught at its conservatory until 1919; Ukrainian pianists were among his students. He later worked in Brno and Prague, where…
Person · 1865–1944
The Czech archaeologist, Slavist and ethnologist Lubor Niederle, author of Slavic Antiquities, according to the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine proposed the Vistula-Dnieper theory of the Slavic homeland, visited Kyiv in 1893 and 1899 and…
Person · 1812–1871
The Prague writer, historian and geographer Karel Vladislav Zap worked as a civil servant in Lviv from 1836 and, according to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, studied Ukrainian history, ethnography and literature, knew figures of the Galician…
Place · 1232–2026
The Klementinum is a historic library and architectural complex in central Prague, whose Jesuit construction began in 1556. It now houses the Czech National Library. Of particular importance for Czech–Ukrainian heritage is the Slavonic…
XVI–XVIII
Early modern era
Czechs in Ukraine · XVI–XVIII
Printing, learning and travelling scholars between Prague and Ukraine. Dossier not compiled yet.
Place · 1347–2026
The historic premises of Charles University connect medieval Prague with Ukrainian academic life in interwar Czechoslovakia. The university was founded in 1348, while the Carolinum became its central historic site in the 1380s. Ukrainian…
IX–XV
Middle Ages
Czechs in Ukraine · IX–XV
Dynastic and church contacts of the Přemyslids and Rurikids. Dossier not compiled yet.