Foreword by the Editor-in-Chief to the 14th volume of the Encyclopedia Herald of Ukraine is proposed.

The article embraces an in-depth analysis of the cognitive mechanism of the conceptual world-image lingual objectivity in projection onto the one of its top verbal results – the presentation of objects, phenomena, events, concepts, actions, processes, states, relations, etc. in the form of slogans, corresponding to the encyclopedia. As a result, the algorithm of universal and specific cognition actions was logically clarified; its impact on the multi-vector procedure of structuring definitions in encyclopedic and linguistic dictionaries has been ascertained in succession. Special attention was paid to systematic analysis of such crucial aspects of the cognitive process under research as harmonic interaction of specific lingual resource and borrowings and ideological usualization. The latter one was determined by the replenishment of the political vocabulary replenishment, actualization of previously unactualized nominative units, the extension / narrowing of the semantic scope and connotative potential of the certain lexemes-markers, functional-stylistic, emotional-expressive, and synchronous-evaluative ranging of registered units, and also an adequate lexicographic interpretation of the ideologically relevant information.

One of the forms of showing respect for famous figures is burial monuments. The national pantheon (a memorial complex in the form of a single place of honorable reburial of historical figures or a symbolic space in their honor) is the pinnacle of national honoring of such personalities. There are such pantheons in various countries of the world. However, it is not yet available in Ukraine. The lack of information about the location of the graves of many prominent figures of the past prevents it from appearing. For example, nothing is known about the location of the graves of a number of prominent figures of the princely era. Another problem is taking care of burial places of prominent Ukrainians in other countries. The question of who exactly should belong to the Ukrainian national pantheon requires a wide discussion. This article describes the history of attempts to create a national pantheon in Ukraine and substantiates the potential of the planned encyclopedic reference about the burial places of famous Ukrainians (princes, hetmans and chieftains, leading cultural figures of different eras, writers, scientists, artists and other persons whose work contributed to the preservation of the national self-identification).

In the proposed study, it is noted that the published in Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine articles, devoted to infectious diseases, need to be updated. On the one hand, this is caused by the objective aging of the content. On the other hand, this is due to the appearance of new infectious diseases that are actively spreading, changing the general epidemiological background in the world and causing the revival of pathogens of old diseases. In this regard, there is a permanent need to update published encyclopedia articles on infectious diseases.

This is a study of the historical destiny of many former towns of right-bank (along the Dnipro) Ukraine on the example of the ancient Volyn princely town Olyka. The study is based on the analysis of encyclopedic texts over four centuries. It is shown that after the partition of Poland and the arrival of the Russian Empire in this territory, most of them lost such town-forming elements as fortresses and castles, palaces, religious buildings, etc. This tendency intensified especially after the establishment of Soviet power in these lands. Therefore, many of them gradually turned into small towns and then villages. A certain exception is Western Ukraine, where there was no active destruction of monuments in the interwar period. Therefore, here, in contrast to Central Ukraine, there is still a “Western Ukrainian Golden Meridian of Monuments” from Chernivtsi to Olyka and Lutsk. As in the former Ukrainian SSR no special attention was paid to its historical past, until recently the history of former towns could be read mainly in Polish and Russian-language editions of previous centuries. Their ancient history is most often associated with the names of the owners, as – on the example of the Volyn region in the middle of the 17 century – out of the total number of towns 125 were private 111. Regardless of the personalities of these owners, the population of cities carried through the centuries the Ukrainian language, rituals, culture in general. In particular, the primary sources of modern history allow us to trace the manifestations of the high cultural level of the urban population of Olyka in connection with the traditions of Magdeburg law and the educational factor.

In this article, Ukrainian encyclopedias are studied in order to show how they describe the capture of Crimea by the Russian Federation. The authors focus on terms describing the act of aggression of the RF against the Ukrainian peninsula, such as “annexation” and “occupation”. The fact is that there is still no terminological clarity among scholars, therefore, it is not easy to interpret both the events of spring 2014 and the political and legal consequences of these events. The fact is also that scholarly studies of these problems are a contribution to the formation of the policy for Ukrainian Crimea de-occupation. Results of the article show that in some encyclopedias the terms “annexation” and “occupation” are actually used interchangeably, referring to the Russian invasion of Crimea and the capture of this territories by RF. In others, differences in the meaning of these concepts are presented: the occupation of Crimea is called a violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine by the RF; the annexation of Crimea is the illegal annexation of the occupied territories by the RF.

The article is dedicated to the recently published online encyclopedia “Significant Figures of Ukrainian Origin in World Civilization” (Kyiv, 2022, https://ukrainci.top). The work’s idea, features of the structure and encyclopedic content are outlined. The first part of the online publication includes biographical articles about personalities who made a significant contribution to the development of world civilization. The second part is about the heroes of the nowaday Russian war against Ukraine, who not only fight for itself country, but also heroically and victoriously defend the civilizational values of the world.

The article highlights the difficult and long way of preparing the encyclopedic work titled Ukrainians in China. In particular, it describes many interesting facts, starting from the conception and collection of materials that began in the 90s of the last century, to important recent archival research, the processing of which somewhat delayed the publication of this encyclopedic reference. The appearance of the encyclopedic book, which is the subject of this article, significantly fills the gap about the Ukrainians in East Asia, their political and cultural life. So, in this way, it contributes to the currently Ukrainian Oriental studies. The considered encyclopedic work is also a contribution to the development of encyclopedic practice of contemporary Ukraine.

The article informs the community of Ukraine about the children’s universal multilingual online encyclopedia titled Vikidia and draw attention to the fact that it lacks a Ukrainian-language section. Author emphasizes that the Ukrainian children’s audience does not yet have a high-quality digital encyclopedia and, obviously, Vikidia could fill this gap. At the same time, it is important that Ukrainian children’s encyclopedias or the Ukrainian-language segments in international projects such as Vikidia provide contents aimed specifically at Ukrainian children (currently, the vast majority of published in Ukraine children’s encyclopedias is a kind of translated literature).

The communication is about the Second European and North American Encyclopedia Conference, which took place on October 6–8, 2022 at the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography (Zagreb, Croatia). The conference was attended by publishers of contemporary national encyclopedias from European and North American countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, and Ukraine). The communication outlines the main issues that were the focus of the discussion by participants as well as informs about main report thesis by speaker of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.

The communication refers to the contribution of the National Library of France to information support, material assistance and solidarity with the Ukrainian people in their defense against the military aggression of the Russian Federation. Among such support is the popularization of the national encyclopedia of Ukraine (The Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine).

The communication is dedicated to the memory of Ivan Dziuba, a public influencer, literary critic, co-chairman of the main editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine who passed away at the age of 91.