batch_1776336232 20260416134352000 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 2020 12 Nataliia Chernysh Ukrainian Academy of Printing (Lviv, Ukraine) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9896-0445 The article offers an overview of the life of anthropologist Ivan Rakovsky who is an editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian General Encyclopedia (1930–1935), the first Ukrainian universal encyclopedic publication. The biographical information of the scientist is described through the vision of his formation as an encyclopediographer. The appearance and compiling the UGE, as well as Rakovsky’s activities in the Shevchenko Scientific Society are highlighted. 2020 17 30 10.37068/evu.12.2 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/article/82 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/doi/10.37068/evu.12.2.pdf Doroshenko, V. (1951). The hotbed of Ukrainian science: to the 75th anniversary of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. New York; Philadelphia [In Ukrainian]. Holovatskyi, I. (2004). Ivan Rakovskyi (1874–1949): biographical and bibliographical feature story. Lviv: Shevchenko Scientific Society [In Ukrainian]. Mykytchuk, V. (1988). On the history of the Ukrainian General Encyclopedia pub­lishing in Kolomyia. In Kolomyia and Kolomyia region: reminiscen­ces of the past and ancientness (pp. 251-261). Philadelphia: Kolomyian Committee [In Ukrainian]. Rakovsky, I. (Ed.). (1935). Ukrainian General Encyclopedia: The Book of Know­ledge (vol. 3). Lviv, Stanislaviv, Kolomyia: Ridna Shkola Press [In Ukrainian]. Rakovsky, I. (1930, February 4). What will our first encyclopedia? Dilo, 26, 3-4 [In Ukrainian]. Romaniuk, T. (1999). Rakovsky Ivan. In Ukrainian journalism in names: materials to the encyclopedic dictionary (vol. 6, pp. 407-410). Lviv: Vasyl Stefanyk Na­tional Scientific Library of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [In Ukrainian]. The Rakovsky’s collection of the Manuscripts Department of the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [In Ukrainian]. Trehub, M. (2003). Epistolary of the archive of the UGE editorial office as a Ukrainian source for biography studies. Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv, 11, 303-310 [In Ukrainian].