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Systematic study of Ukrainian dialects in their entirety on a
truly scholarly foundation was first undertaken by Kostiantyn
Mykhalchuk, sometimes called ‘the father of Ukrainian
dialectology’ (1877). This work was carried on by Aleksei
Sobolevsky (1892), Nikolai Durnovo (Moscow Dialectological
Commission, 1915), Ivan Zilynsky (1916, 1933, and,
posthumously, 1975), Vsevolod Hantsov (1924), Fedot Zhylko
(1955), Yosyp Dzendzelivsky (1965–6), and Tetiana Nazarova
(1977). Mykhalchuk's tripartition of the Ukrainian dialects was
disputed by Sobolevsky and Durnovo, but, with minor
specifications and modifications suggested by Hantsov, Ivan
Pankevych, and Zilynsky, it prevailed and is now generally
accepted.
Since the early 20th century the collection of dialectal data
has been performed on the basis of broadly discussed and
published questionnaires, of which the most important were those
of Kostiantyn Mykhalchuk and Ahatanhel Krymsky (in Russian)
and Mykhalchuk and Yevhen Tymchenko (in Ukrainian, both
1909), Oleksa Syniavsky (1924, 1927), Tymchenko (1925),
Mykola Nakonechny (1941), and Borys Larin (1948, 1949).
In the area of compilation of dialectal atlases, some regional
atlases were pioneering: Zdzisław Stieber's Atlas językowy dawnej
Lemkowszczyzny (Linguistic Atlas of the Ancient Lemko Region,
8 issues, 1956-64) and Yosyp Dzendzelivsky's Linhvistychnyi
atlas ukraïnśkykh narodnykh hovoriv Zakarpats'koï oblasti URSR
(Linguistic Atlas of Ukrainian Folk Dialects of Transcarpathia
Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, lexical only, 2 parts, 1958-60). The atlas of
Ukrainian dialects in eastern Slovakia by Vasyl Latta remains in
manuscript, as does the three-volume all-Ukrainian atlas edited by
Fedot Zhylko and completed by the early 1970s.
The compilation of dialectal dictionaries is underdeveloped
in Ukrainian dialectology, as is, to an even greater extent, the
publication of such dictionaries. The most important have been P.
Lysenko's Slovnyk polis'kykh hovoriv (Dictionary of Polisian

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