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UDK 39:745-051(477)Сидорович

  • Received: 13.03.2026
  • Accepted: 24.03.2026
  • Published: ??.??.2026

TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT UKRAINIAN WOMAN SAVYNA SYDOROVYCH

NYKORAK Olena

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0887-8929
  • Doctor of Art Studies, Professor, NAS Corresponding Member,
  • Full Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society,
  • Leading Scholar, Ethnology Institute of the National 
  • Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Folk Art Department,
  • 15, Svoboda Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: olenanykorak@gmail.com

Abstract. The article is devoted to the analysis of the ascetic socio-cultural life and the multifaceted scientific and artistic heritage of the prominent scholar of Ukrainian folk art, Savyna Sydorovych.

The topic relevance is due to the monograph publication «Savyna Sydorovych (1895—1972): Aristocratic Interweaving»: мonograph. Scientific editor Roman Yatsiv, intr. Lesia Krypiakevych. Lviv: Apriori Publishing House, 2025, 216 p.: ill. This fundamental work, according to R. Yatsiv, is a tribute to the memory of a great Ukrainian woman, a unique pedagogical talent and a heroic deed. She belongs to the cohort of illustrious representatives of the Ukrainian intellectual elite.

The study object is an analysis of the ascetic life path and the multifaceted scientific and artistic heritage of one of the most authoritative researchers of Ukrainian folk art, in particular, artistic weaving. The scientific editor of the book is Roman Yatsiv. The work is divided into two sections. The first contains a scientific analytical study by Roman Yatsiv, the memoirs of family members — Lesia Krypiakevych, Nadiia Mudra, Bohdana Krypiakevych, and information from Savyna Sydorowych herself (recorded from her words by Petro Krypiakevych). The second part includes three most important fragments of the monograph «Artistic Fabric of the Western Regions of the Ukrainian SSR», published in 1979.

The study subject is the features of Savyna Sydorovych’s professional formation and various spheres of her socio-cultural life during the period of the Ukrainian national liberation struggle, the development of professional artistic education and science in the spirit of ethnic cultural tradition.

The research source base is the published materials presented in two sections of the monograph «Savyna Sydorovych (1895—1972). Aristocratic Intertwinings».

The research methodological basis is the principle of systematicity, scientific objectivity, and art historical analysis.

The article purpose is to analyze the process of personality formation and research interests, to identify the most important intellectual directions of the scientist’s creative work in various guises: professional-practical, pedagogical, scientific-research and socio-cultural.

The conclusions note that the authors of the monograph have detailed Savyna Sydorovych’s significant contribution to Ukrainian ethnopedagogy, ethnology, art history, and museology. Roman Yatsiv for the first time comprehensively covered her associative public-cultural and educational activities. He presented Savyna Sydorovych, first of all, as an active participant in the national liberation movement, who, together with her associates, defended Ukrainian identity in its various manifestations.

Keywords: Savyna Sydorovych, ethnology, art history, museology, ethnopedagogy, artistic fabric, ornament.

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  • Hrytsiuk, I. (1999). The Life and Scientific Activities of Savyna Sydorovych. The Ethnology notebooks, 6 (30), 911—920 [in Ukrainian].
  • Boltarovych, Z. (2005). The Guardian of the Folk Treasures. The Ethnology notebooks, 1 (5), 203—206 [in Ukrainian].
  • Nykorak, O. (2007). Savyna Sydorovych. Small Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Ethnology (Pp. 801—802) Lviv [in Ukrainian].
  • Rudenko, O. (2017). The Cultural Aspect of Savyna Sydorovych’s Educational Activities. Newsletter Transcarpatian Academy of Arts. Bulletin of scientific and research works, 9, 117—121 [in Ukrainian].
  • Nykorak, O. (1988). Modern Artistic Fabrick of Ukrainian Carpathians. Kyiv: Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian].
  • Nykorak, O. (2004). The Ukrainian Traditional Folk Cloths of XIX and XX cc. Interior Cloths (Based on Materials from Ukrainian Western Regions) (Part I). Lviv: Ethnology Institute of NAS of Ukraine [in Ukrainian].
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