Изучаването на българския фолклор в Украйна
The Study of Bulgarian Folklore on the Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The article traces the basic stages in the growth of the interest towards Bulgarian folklore and its study in the Ukraine. The merits of outstanding 19th century experts on Slavic studies like Y. Venelin, I. Sreznevsky, O. Bodyansky and others are given due consideration. After Y. Venelin’s time the interest in Bulgarian folklore became firmly established in the Universities of Harkov and Kiev, where scholars such as A. Potebnya, M. Drinov, M. Halansky, etc., worked together. More recently, in the Soviet Union they have been collecting folklore among the Bulgarian population in the South Ukraine, studying mythical images in the Bulgarian folklore, rites, etc. The folklorists in the Soviet Ukraine have now been engaged in studying the problem of genre interrelation in the Slavic folklore. This is one of the major tasks of the Slavic Folkloristics Department in the “Maxim Rilsky” Institute of Arts, Folkloristics and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Close professional contacts have been established between the scholars in this Department and the Bulgarian folklorists.

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