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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2019, 1 (145), 272-279

UDK 7.011.26(=161.2)]:745/749(477-054.65)]”191/201″
DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2019.01.272

THE LIFE, DEDICATED TO FOLK ART (to the Memory of Outstanding Scientist Raisa Zakharchuk-Chuhai)

HERUS Lyudmyla

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5931-3816

Сandidate of Аrts (Ph. D), Senior Researcher

of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy

of Sciences of Ukraine,

in the Department of Folk Art,

Svobody Avenue 15, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine

Contacts: e-mail: ludmilagerus@gmail.com

Abstract. Museum, scientific, pedagogical and organizational activities of Raisa Zakharchuk-Chuhai (1934—2019) as well as the contribution to preservation, research, popularization of Ukrainian decorative and applying arts items are presented. Her scientific heritage, especially her achievements in the study of Yavoriv and Ukrainian Polissya decorative art, Ukrainian embroidery are analyzed.

Keywords: Raisa Zakharchuk-Chuhai, Ukrainian folk art, embroidery, museum, art study.

Received 13.02.2019

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Hlushko, М. (2004). Narodoznavets’ piznaietsia v ekspedytsiinii dorozi. In Raisa Zakharchuk-Chuhaj: bibliohrafichnyj pokazhchyk (pp. 11—14). L’viv [in Ukrainian].
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Zakharchuk-Chuhaj, R.V. (2004). Ukrains’ka narodna vyshyvka: Zakhidni oblasti URSR. Kyiv [in Ukrainian].
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