Naukova Dumka ( — literally "scientific thought") is a

publishing house Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. It was established by the

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; , ; ''NAN Ukrainy'') is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine that is the main center of development of Science and technology in Ukraine, science and technology by coordinatin ...

in 1922, largely owing to the efforts of Ahatanhel Krymsky, a prominent Ukrainian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and orientalist. It is one of the oldest scientific and academic publishing houses in the former

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

and became known as ''Naukova Dumka'' in 1964, before which it simply functioned as the official publisher of the

. It continues its operations in

, publishing primarily

scientific Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

and

historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

works as well as

dictionaries A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged Alphabetical order, alphabetically (or by Semitic root, consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical-and-stroke sorting, radical an ...

Products

“Naukova Dumka” has published dictionaries of synonyms of the Ukrainian language, foreign language words, proper names, established phrases, and spelling dictionaries. In 1997, the publishing house launched the Schoolchild's Library series, which published works by Ulas Samchuk, Vasyl Barka, Ivan Bahrianyi, Todosiy Osmachka, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and other representatives of Ukrainian literature whose names had not been mentioned in any Ukrainian literature program for many years. The publishing house is especially proud of the complete 20-volume collection of Taras Shevchenko's works. In 2008, 95 titles of fundamental and generalizing scientific works by Ukrainian scholars were published. In 2010, the publication of the Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language in 20 volumes was launched.

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History of Naukova Dumka

History of Naukova Dumka
website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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Naukova Dumka website

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