“Ethnographic Passport of the Nation…” New Editions of the Folkloristic and Ethnographic Heritage of Borys Hrinchenko

New editions of the folklore and ethnographic heritage of Borys Hrinchenko are considered in the article for the first time. They are carried out by the leading research fellow of the Hrinchenko Study Laboratory of Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University V. Yaremenko and other research fellows O. Burko, A. Movchun, O. Myslyva under the leadership of the chairman of the editorial board, project manager V. Ohneviuk. An analysis of various spheres of Borys Hrinchenko’s activities – literary, linguistic, pedagogical, ethnographic, folkloristic, journalistic, as well as the study of his biography and epistolary heritage, are submitted in V. Yaremenko’s monograph “Borys Hrinchenko is a Torch of the National Idea” (2022). The authoress has analyzed four sections of the monograph – “Ethnography is a Nation-Building Science”, “Folk Song as an Ethnographic Source”, “Borys Hrinchenko in Ethnographic Science”, “Folklore is a Backbone of the Nation Culture, Its Spirituality”. In them V. Yaremenko has noted that B. Hrinchenko uses fruitfully an ethnographic material in public education activities. He has created ”public education literary studies, public education linguistics, public education folkloristics and, finally, public education ethnography”. V. Yaremenko never tires of affirming the truth proclaimed by B. Hrinchenko about the extremely important role of ethnology and ethnography for the self-preservation of the Ukrainian nation. Of great value for Ukrainian folklore studies is The reprint of four folklore collections by B. Hrinchenko are of a peculiar value for Ukrainian Folkloristics. These are “Ethnographic Materials Collected in Chernihiv and Neighboring Provinces” (vol. 1–3), “From the Mouth of the People” (vol. 4), which was first carried out by a team of research fellows of the research laboratory of Hrinchenko Studies of the Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University, – “Borys Hrinchenko. Collected Works. Ethnographic Heritage” compiled by O. M. Myslyva, V. V. Yaremenko; V. O. Ohneviuk is an editorial board’s chairperson, project manager. Kyiv, 2017. Book 1. 656 pp. Book 2. Kyiv, 2017. 792 pp. Book 3. Kyiv, 2017. 536 pp. In 2018 the same team has republished the folklore heritage of B. Hrinchenko for the first time – “Borys Hrinchenko. Collected Works. Folkloristic Heritage” Compiled by O. V. Burko, A. I. Movchun, V. V. Yaremenko; V. O. Ohneviuk is an editorial board’s chairperson, project manager. Kyiv, 2018, book 1, 488 pp.; book 2, 616 pp.