batch_1777354032 20260428082712000 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 Petro Rotach’s contribution to Ukrainian encyclopediography, literary studies, and local lore studies Maryna Fedorova Kotlyarevsky Poltava Regional Universal Scientific Library (Poltava, Ukraine) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-6915 2020 marks the 95th anniversary of Petro Rotach who is the famous Ukrainian writer from Poltava region. But his life way was ended in 2007. This article is devoted to the description of Petro Rotach’s main achievements in humanities like literary studies, local lore studies, encyclopedia publishing, in which he made significant contributions. 2020 58 64 10.37068/evu.12.5 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/article/85 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/doi/10.37068/evu.12.5.pdf Didusenko, H., & Fedorova, M. (2018). “Through the years of pain and hope …” (new reference books about Petro Rotach compiled in the Ivan Kotliarevsky Poltava Library). Bibliotechna planeta, 2, 33-34 [In Ukrainian]. Dudko, V. (2007). Rotach Petro Petrovych (1925-2007). Ukrainskyi arkheo­hra­fichnyi shchorichnyk, 12, 854-857 [In Ukrainian]. Fedorova, M., Didusenko, H., Perepiolkina, O. Library catalog of Petro Rotach and his personal book collection: bibliographic index. Poltava: ASMI, 2017. Pustovit, T. (2015, January 23). Petro Rotach: “This is a hard work, but I can’t live a day without it”: to the writer’s 90th anniversary. Zoria Poltavshchyny, 4-4 [In Ukrainian]. Pustovit, T. (2016). The personal fund of the scholar Petro Petrovich Rotach as a valu­able source on the history of Poltava region (based on the documents of the State Archive of Poltava Oblast). In Proceedings of the International Conference “Structural changes in society and the economy caused by com­munications and information” (pp. 191-194). Poltava: Poltava University of Economics and Trade [In Ukrainian]. Solomonenko, T. (Ed). (2007). Rotach Petro Petrovych: biobibliographic index. Kyiv: Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [In Ukrainian]. Stepanenko, M. (2011, March 9). Petro Rotach’s selfless creativity in the field of Shevchenko studies. Slovo prosvity, 9, 11-11 [In Ukrainian].