UVAN
The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the USA (UVAN) was established in 1950 in New York City as heir to the tradition of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of the 1920s in Kyiv and the Ukrainian academy-in-exile (UVAN). Chapters of the Academy were also established in Detroit, Denver, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Munich (Germany).
Since 1961, the Academy has been housed in its landmark-designated building. Besides the Academy’s office and lecture hall, the building also contains a library of circa 55,000 volumes and museum-archival holdings (over 500,000 items), making it the most extensive Ukrainian archive outside Ukraine. The personal archival fonds of scholars who participated in the activities of the Ukrainian National Academy of Arts and Sciences, including the presidents of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences M. Antonovych, O. Arkhymovych, M. Vetukhov, D. Doroshenko, O. Ogloblyn, and G. Shevelov are kept here.
Since its founding, the Academy has published over 140 books and journal issues, including such as O. Powstenko’s “The Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev” (1954), D. Chizhevsky’s ‘History of Ukrainian Literature” (1956), D. Doroshenko’s book on Hetman P. Doroshenko (1985) and T. Skrypka’s “Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (Lesya Ukrainka). Biographical Material, Reminiscences, Photographs” (2004). The official periodical publication of the Academy is The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.
Prof. Volodymyr Mijakowsky was one of the “founding fathers” of UVAN. Prof. Mychailo Vetukhiv was the first president of UVAN in the USA. At present, the total membership of the Academy stands at over 175.
President of UVAN ━ Albert Kipa
The archive director ━ Tamara Skrypka
