Ridnyi krai (Chernivtsi)

Ridnyi krai (Chernivtsi) («Рідний край»; Native Land). A weekly newspaper published in Chernivtsi in 1926–30 (a total of 201 issues). Edited by Lev Kohut, it supported the Ukrainian National party in Bukovyna and promoted the Silskyi Hospodar society. Among the contributors were Yurii Serbyniuk, Ivan Stryisky, Hryhorii Skehar, Volodymyr Simenovych, Stepan Smal-Stotsky, Myron Korduba, and Stepan Siropolko. In 1930 the paper merged with Chas (Chernivtsi).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]