Pasternak, Mariia [Пастернак, Марія], b 1897 in Lviv, d 26 August 1983 in Toronto. Pedagogue and expert on artistic and folk dance; wife of Yaroslav Pasternak. In the 1930s she taught at the Ridna Shkola society school in Lviv, was in charge of preschool education for the Ukrainska Zakhoronka society (1934–9), and coedited the journal Ukraïns’ke doshkilia (1937–9). In 1941–4 she was responsible for preschool education in the Ukrainian Central Committee in Lviv. After the Second World War she emigrated to Germany and then to Canada. She is the author of the textbook Zainiattia v dytiachomu sadku (Activities in the Nursery School, 1959) and of Ukraïns'ka zhinka v khoreohrafii (The Ukrainian Woman in Choreography, 1963), as well as numerous articles on preschool education and dance.

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