About Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine

The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (IEU) is the most comprehensive work in the English language on Ukraine, its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage. This site was created and is updated/maintained by a team of scholars and editors from the University of Toronto Office of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) (University of Alberta). Hundreds of specialists from around the world have contributed and continue to contribute to the IEU.

This site is a greatly expanded and updated version of the five-volume edition (1984-93) of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine that was prepared by the CIUS in cooperation with the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies and the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) in Western Europe under the direction of Professor Volodymyr Kubijovyc (editor in-chief in 1978-1985) and Professor Danylo Husar Struk (editor in-chief in 1985-1999), and published by the University of Toronto Press. The current core team of the IEU is led by Dr. Marko R. Stech, Editor-in-Chief and includes Dr. Serhiy Bilenky, Consulting Scholarly Editor, and Tania Plawuszczak-Stech, Senior Scholarly Editor, who coordinate the work of a large group of subject editors and other prominent scholars in various countries who are commissioned to write IEU articles. This site was designed by Jaroslaw Kiebalo; Walter Kiebalo acted as consulting designer. The former members of the IEU team include Roman Senkus (formerly Managing Editor) and Andrij Makuch (formerly Senior Manuscript Editor). Maps were scanned and edited by Bohdan Skrobach and Jaroslaw Kiebalo. The work of the IEU in Ukraine is made possible thanks to the organizational support of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine is a constant work in progress. Many new entries need to be added, and many of the existing entries need to be expanded and updated in order to reflect the various changes that have occurred and continue to occur in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and in order to incorporate previously inaccessible information. The editorial staff and subject editors collect and process information systematically from a variety of sources and provide it to the international public in the form of a reliable, regularly revised and updated Internet publication. However, the editorial team's ability to update and expand the IEU database is seiously limited by budgetary concerns.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine is an ambitious and costly undertaking whose goal is to create and maintain the best and most authoritative electronic source of information in English about Ukraine. You can actively contribute to the success of the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine by supporting our work morally and financially. Become an IEU supporter today!

All donations will be gratefully acknowledged, and receipts for tax purposes will be issued.

Please send your cheque donation (payable to University of Alberta - Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine) to:

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 430 Pembina Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H8 Canada. Tel: (780) 492-2973; e-mail.

You can also make donations to the IEU online.

Since the IEU is a permanent scholarly project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta, all donations to the IEU are accepted and processed by the University of Alberta and all donors from Canada and the United States will receive income tax receipts for their donations from the university.
The button below will take you to the CIUS donations page on the University of Alberta website.
To donate to the IEU project, please:
1. specify the sum of your donation
2. select Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine Program Fund (IEU)
3. and then follow further instructions.
Your donation(s) will be forwarded by the University of Alberta financial system to the IEU project.

For more information about the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine project, please contact:

Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, 47 Queen's Park Crescent East, Suite B-12, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 Canada. Tel: (416) 946-7326; e-mail.