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The first period (1930-1960) is characterised by a theory of
terminology coming into being and high activities of the two major
experts with technical background – D. S. Lotte and E. K. Drezen
who promoted an engineering approach to terminology that
determined greatly the future practice in standardisation and
internationalisation of terminology. Within the same period
significant contribution to the development of terminological
theory was brought by two outstanding Russian linguists
O. O. Reformatskyi and H. O. Vynokur.
The second period (1970-1990) is marked by the fact that
terminology is becoming an independent discipline. Different
views on special lexicon and the ways it has improved are
specified, scientific efforts of theoreticians in terminology meet the
efforts of linguists, logicians, specialists in information science to
define the subject and objectives of terminology science, to
improve its methods and to articulate its basic problems. This
period is also characterised by the development and interaction of
terminological committees within the framework of academies of
sciences in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Among the
works of Russian terminologists of this period should be
mentioned investigations by B. N. Holovin; S. V. Hrinev,
V. P. Danilenko, T. L. Kandelaki, R. Kobrin,
O. V. Superanskaia, V. A. Tatarinov, N. V. Vasilieva,
M. N. Volodina.
The third period (since 1990th up to now) started with an
evident decline of scientific research in the sphere of terminology
studies caused by deep and difficult changes in the social life of
the former USSR but, then, it is followed by gradual renewal.

1.3 The Development of Ukrainian Terminology Science
At the territory of Kiev Rus the first text related to the
terminology is “Ізборник Святослава” (Manuscript of
Sviatoslav) where unfamiliar words from the Bible and
astrological concepts were explained.

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