Novytsky, Ivan [Новицький, Іван; Novyc'kyj], b 1844 in Tarashcha, Kyiv gubernia, d 12 August 1890 in Kyiv. Historian, ethnographer, and journalist. He graduated from Kyiv University and was an associate of the Kyiv Central Archive of Old Documents, the Kyiv Archeographic Commission, the Kyiv Statistical Committee, and the Southwestern Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society. He contributed articles on the social and legal history of Ukraine under Lithuanian and Polish rule and on Ukrainian folk songs to Kievskaia starina, Trudy Kievskago iuridicheskago obshchestva, and Kyiv University’s Universitetskiia izvestiia. His major contributions are the introduction on the history of the peasantry in 15th- to 18th-century Right-Bank Ukraine in pt 6, vol 1 of Arkhiv Iugo-Zapadnoi Rossii (1876), a 31-page reference dictionary of 465 legal terms in the Ukrainian chancery language under Lithuanian and Polish rule (1871), and indexes of personal names (1878) and place-names (1882) in the publications of the Kyiv Archeographic Commission. Novytsky participated in Pavlo Chubynsky’s ethnographic expedition and wrote down nearly 5,000 Ukrainian folk songs, which were published in Trudy Etnografichesko-statisticheskoi ekspeditsii v Zapadno-Russkom krae (vol 5, 1872). He also published ethnographic notes and texts of folk songs in Kievlianin and Kievskie gubernskiie vedomosti.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]