Huslysty, Kost

Huslysty, Kost [Гуслистий, Кость; Huslystyj, Kost'], b 1 October 1902 in Zaporizhia, d 21 February 1973 in Kyiv. Historian and ethnographer; from 1969 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. He worked in research institutions in Kharkiv and Kyiv (1928–36), at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1954 at the Institute of Fine Arts, Folklore, and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In the 1960s he played an important role in the revival of Ukrainian history and ethnography. The more important of his works are Koliïvshchyna (The Koliivshchyna rebellion, 1947), Voprosy istorii Ukrainy i etnicheskogo razvitiia ukrainskogo naroda (Problems in the History of Ukraine and the Ethnic Development of the Ukrainian People, 1963), and Do pytannia utvorennia ukraïns'koï natsiï (On the Question of the Formation of the Ukrainian Nation, 1967).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]