batch_1777344169 20260428054249000 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Encyclopedic Research esu@esu.com.ua National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Encyclopedic Research Entsyklopedychnyi visnyk Ukrainy [The Encyclopedia Herald of Ukraine] Entsykl. visn. Ukr. 2706-9990 2707-000X 2017 8-9 Anatoly Avramenko Shevchenko Scientific Society https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2538-7195 The article is devoted to V. Chumachenko as the philologist (literary scientist), historian and encyclopedist. The author, based on his own experience in communicating with V. Chumachenko as the one of the most prominent russian experts in Ukrainian studies as well on some sources, presents interesting biographical facts, tells about the life and scientific priorities, the most important projects of him. The general condition of the Ukrainian ethnos in the Kuban, in particular its cultural status and prospects of development is described by presentation of V. Chumachenko life and scientific ways. 2017 55 74 10.37068/evu.8-9.5 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/article/56 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/doi/10.37068/evu.8-9.5.pdf