Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences

Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences (Українська могилянсько-мазепинська академія наук; Ukrainska mohyliansko-mazepynska akademiia nauk, or УММАН; UMMAN). A scholarly institution created in Warsaw in May 1938 by the Government-in-exile of the Ukrainian National Republic. Its aim was to continue the work of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences after it was shut down during the Stalinist terror, to revive its publications, and to inform the Western scholarly community about Ukraine and Ukrainian scholarship. UMMAN consisted of a Ukrainian studies division made up of 24 chairs and research groups. Its presidents were Stepan Smal-Stotsky and Ivan Feshchenko-Chopivsky (from August 1938); the secretary was Andrii Yakovliv. UMMAN published three monographs before the 1939 German invasion of Poland forced it to suspend its activity. In the 1980s UMMAN renewed its activity in the diaspora, and Jaroslav Rudnyckyj was elected president. In 1992, with the revival of the Kyivan Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, UMMAN terminated its activities and encouraged its members to continue working with the renewed academy in Kyiv.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]