ONOMASTIC SCIENCES IN UKRAINIA during the Stalin period were virtually non-existent. The works of pre-revolutionary scholars such as M. Maksymovyc, M. Sumcov, I. Franko and others, which occasionally were concerned with onomastics, were never republished there. Moreover, the available copies of these works were usually withdrawn from the libraries, since they were not in accord with the views of the Communist Party. A few toponomastic publications which appeared in the 1920's, valuable in terms of content but rather unsystematic, were labeled as nationalistic and banned by the Soviet authorities in the 1930's. In point of fact, V. Kordt's Materialy do istoriii kartohrafiii Ukraiiny, published in 1931, could be regarded as the swan-song of onomastic studies in Ukrainia. In the succeeding twenty years nothing appeared in Ukrainian in this field: only one article (in Russian) on Ukrainian and Russian surnames was listed in the bibliography for the years 1934-1956.1 The fact that even this article appeared in Russian illustrates the effectiveness of the Russianization policies of the Government at that time. In 1949 and later some attempts were made to institute research in onomastic sciences,2 but these were limited only to the drafts of certain projects. With the resulting policy of de-Stalinization following the death of Stalin, Ukrainian scholars again resumed work in the onomastic sciences. Thus the period of stagnation came to an abrupt end. A program of field work concerned with toponymies was drawn up in