Chas publishing house

Chas publishing house [Час]. One of the largest and most productive publishing houses in Kyiv in 1908–20. Established and directed by Vasyl Koroliv-Stary, Maksym Synytsky, and P. Petrushevsky, it had 250 members and over a million rubles in capital. Chas published school textbooks, selections from the classics of Ukrainian literature, popular low-priced books, which consisted of translations of foreign novels (most of them illustrated by Ivan Buriachok), series of small publications (one of them devoted to Taras Shevchenko), colored postcards by Amvrosii Zhdakha, and the monthly Knyhar devoted to literary criticism and bibliography (1917–20). Chas had its own printing press and bookstore. The Slovo publishing house in Kyiv continued (1922–6) the work of Chas.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]