The Ukrainian Zoological Journal: the history of the edition and its successors in the light of the past of zoology in Ukraine

Abstract

The history of the “Ukrainian Zoological Journal” (UZJ) on the background of the formation and further development of academic science in Ukraine has been discovered and de-scribed. UZJ was the first in Ukraine’s history specialized zoological journal. It was established in 1921 by the Ukrainian Scientific Society (USS). The editor and compiler of UZJ was Nikolay Char-lemagne, while among the authors were such scientists recognized in those times and subsequently as Georgiy Vysotsky, Theodosius Dobrzhansky, Serhiy Panochini, Nikolay Charlemagne, Georgiy Artobolevsky, Leonid Portenko, Matviy Shcherbyna, and others. Due to organizational and finan-cial difficulties, the journal could not be published regularly. Volume 2 was issued only after a two years break in 1923, under the auspices of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (“Number 2”), and it was the journal’s last volume too. It was substituted by departmental publications (mainly annual) of zoological institutes of the Academy of Sciences, in particular the “Journal of the Bio-Zoological Cycle,” “Collection of Works of the Zoological Museum,” and “Proceedings of the Insti-tute of Zoology.” In the mid-1960s, these editions were also replaced by interdepartmental editions: initially it was a series of collections “Problems of Zoology,” and later — the “Herald of Zoology” (currently better known as “Vestnik zoologii”) publishing 6 issues a year. All of the transitions of the dominant positions of different types of editions are discussed in detail.

Keywords

• ukrainian zoological journal
• ukrainian scientific society
• all-ukrainian academy of sciences
• nikolay charlemagne
• zoological publications