Biodiversity records from Ukraine and neighbouring countries extracted from digitalized rare Ukrainian publications

Registro biológico Observación
Última versión publicado por Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) el dic 6, 2025 Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO)
Fecha de publicación:
6 de diciembre de 2025
Licencia:
CC-BY 4.0

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Descripción

The dataset comprises records on the distribution of living organism species across the territory of Ukraine and several neighboring countries. These data were originally published in the early XX century in some of the rarest local scientific journals issued by Ukrainian universities, research institutes, nature reserves, and scientific societies of that time.

The early XX century marked a period of remarkable growth in scientific and conservation activity in Ukraine, during which numerous scientific periodicals were published simultaneously in different cities, extensive field studies were conducted, and large zoological, botanical, and herbarium collections were established. Unfortunately, most of these publications have now become bibliographic rarities. Some survive only in one or two copies, often held outside of central scientific libraries.

One of the main reasons for their extreme rarity lies in the period of Soviet repressions of the 1930s, when, under directives of the party leadership, the majority of scientists, conservationists, and members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia were persecuted or executed. Publications of scientific societies, as well as any materials printed in the Ukrainian language, were systematically confiscated and destroyed. Consequently, the full extent of scientific output from that period remains largely unknown.

Registros

Los datos en este recurso de registros biológicos han sido publicados como Archivo Darwin Core(DwC-A), el cual es un formato estándar para compartir datos de biodiversidad como un conjunto de una o más tablas de datos. La tabla de datos del core contiene 46.552 registros.

Este IPT archiva los datos y, por lo tanto, sirve como repositorio de datos. Los datos y los metadatos del recurso están disponibles para su descarga en la sección descargas. La tabla versiones enumera otras versiones del recurso que se han puesto a disposición del público y permite seguir los cambios realizados en el recurso a lo largo del tiempo.

Versiones

La siguiente tabla muestra sólo las versiones publicadas del recurso que son de acceso público.

¿Cómo referenciar?

Los usuarios deben citar este trabajo de la siguiente manera:

Vasyliuk O, Marushchak M, Marushchak O, Miasoiedov M, Parkhomenko V, Kovalchuk V, Kostryts A (2025). Biodiversity records from Ukraine and neighbouring countries extracted from digitalized rare Ukrainian publications. Version 1.5. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=digitaloldliteratureua1&v=1.5

Derechos

Los usuarios deben respetar los siguientes derechos de uso:

El publicador y propietario de los derechos de este trabajo es Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Esta obra está bajo una licencia Creative Commons de Atribución/Reconocimiento (CC-BY 4.0).

Registro GBIF

Este recurso ha sido registrado en GBIF con el siguiente UUID: 27209824-d4ee-4a92-bd19-9215f980f34e.  Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) publica este recurso y está registrado en GBIF como un publicador de datos avalado por Participant Node Managers Committee.

Palabras clave

Occurrence; old publications; living organisms; plants; animals; microorganisms; algae; fungi; Ukraine; digitalized literature; preservation; conservation; herbarium; material citation; Observation

Contactos

Olexiy Vasyliuk
  • Proveedor De Los Metadatos ●
  • Originador ●
  • Punto De Contacto
  • Head
NGO "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group"
Vasylkiv
UA
  • +380971000473
Maksym Marushchak
  • Originador
  • student
Faculty of Economics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Kyiv
UA
  • +380985082151
Oleksii Marushchak
  • Custodio De Los Datos ●
  • Originador
  • researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
01030 Kyiv
UA
  • +380964882670
Marko Miasoiedov
  • Originador
  • student
Lyceum №43 "Grail" with in-depth study of subjects of the social and humanitarian cycle
Kyiv
UA
Viktor Parkhomenko
  • Originador
  • environmentalist
NGO "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group"
UA
Vladyslav Kovalchuk
  • Originador
UA
Artem Kostryts
  • Originador
UA

Cobertura geográfica

The dataset covers mainly the entire territory of Ukraine with particular records from Moldova, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, russian federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Coordenadas límite Latitud Mínima Longitud Mínima [39,021, 23,901], Latitud Máxima Longitud Máxima [58,449, 133,125]

Cobertura taxonómica

The dataset includes a very wide variety of living organisms.

Reino Animalia, Fungi, Plantae, Bacteria, Chromista, Protozoa
Filo Amoebozoa, Annelida, Arthropoda, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Bryophyta, Bryozoa, Charophyta, Chlorophyta, Chordata, Ciliophora, Cyanobacteria, Euglenozoa, Glaucophyta, Marchantiophyta, Mollusca, Myzozoa, Ochrophyta, Oomycota, Platyhelminthes, Porifera, Rhodophyta, Rotifera, Tracheophyta

Cobertura temporal

Periodo de formación 1814/1998

Datos del proyecto

The dataset was developed within the framework of the project “Conservation of Natural Heritage for LIFE in Ukraine” (LIFE23-PRE-CZ-ConNaturLIFE Ukraine), co-funded by the European Union and the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic.

Título Conservation of Natural Heritage for LIFE in Ukraine
Identificador LIFE23-PRE-CZ-ConNaturLIFE Ukraine

Personas asociadas al proyecto:

Olexiy Vasyliuk
  • Punto De Contacto

Métodos de muestreo

The information was obtained from published historical literature sources based on the species occurrence descriptions they contain. All data were extracted directly from the original texts, including species names, dates, and locality information. Geographic coordinates were determined by interpreting the locality descriptions provided by the original authors in those publications. Depending on the level of detail and accuracy of each locality description, an estimate of positional uncertainty was assigned to every record, allowing for a more informed interpretation of these historical data. In some cases, the localities mentioned in the examined publications no longer exist today—for instance, they were ploughed over or destroyed as a result of the flooding of the Dnipro River valley by a cascade of reservoirs. Additionally, some settlements have since changed their names, disappeared, or were incorporated into larger towns or villages. All these historical circumstances were carefully taken into account when determining the geographic coordinates of each occurrence record. The current version of the dataset includes the complete set of records on species occurrences published by Ukrainian researchers in the following rare early 20th-century scientific journals and proceedings. All available information from each listed issue of these periodicals has been incorporated into the dataset. 1. Materials on Nature Conservation – published in Kharkiv in 1928; only Issue No. 1 was released. 2. Protection of Natural Monuments in Ukraine – published in Kharkiv in 1927–1928; Issues Nos. 1–2 were released. 3. Bulletin of Natural Science (Visnyk Pryrodoznavstva) – published in Kharkiv in 1927–1931; Issues Nos. 1–10 were released. 4. Proceedings of the Donetsk Hydrobiological Station named after Prof. V. M. Arnoldi – published in Kharkiv in 1940; only Issue No. 1 was released. 5. Proceedings of Agricultural Botany – published in Kharkiv in 1926–1929; Issues Nos. 1–2 were released. 6. Proceedings of the Donetsk Expedition – published in Kharkiv in 1930; only Issue No. 1 was released. 7. Collected Papers of the Kaniv Biogeographical Reserve – published in Kyiv from 1947 onward; Issues Nos. 1–7 are known, though not all have been preserved. 8. Nature of the “Horyste” Reserve – published in Kyiv in 1941; only Issue No. 1 is known. 9. Courses for Training Leaders to Conduct Nature Excursions with Children – published in Kyiv in 1915; only Issue No. 1 is known. 10. Proceedings of the Natural Science Section of the Ukrainian Scientific Society (UNS) – published in Kyiv in 1918–1919; Issues Nos. 1–3 were released. 11. Collected Papers of the State Fish Reserve “Koncha-Zaspa” – published in Kyiv in 1928; only Issue No. 1 is known. 12. Materials on the Fauna of Southern Russia – published in Kyiv in 1915–1917; Issues Nos. 1–2 were released. 13. Notes of the Poltava Agricultural Institute – published in Poltava in 1930; only Issue 4(1) was processed. 14. Scientific Notes on Biology – published in Kharkiv in 1927; only Issue No. 1 is known. 15. Ukrainian Zoological Journal – published in Kyiv in 1923; only Issue No. 1 is known. 16. Zoological Journal of Ukraine – published in Kyiv in 1921; only Issue No. 1 is known. 17. Collected Papers Dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the Museum – published in Poltava in 1928; only Issue No. 1 was released.

Área de Estudio The dataset encompasses all records of identified species occurrences at specific sites and dates, derived from rare Ukrainian scientific publications issued in the early XX century.
Control de Calidad The authors are fully responsible for the quality of data provided within the dataset in terms of correct extraction and inerpretation of the data presented in the original publications.

Descripción de la metodología paso a paso:

  1. Search for literary sources.
  2. Scanning literary sources and extracting text blocks from scanned versions.
  3. Searching digitized publications for information about encounters of species of living organisms, indicating specific locations and dates.
  4. Organizing data according to Darwin Core standards.

Referencias bibliográficas

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  2. Матеріали до охорони природи. 1928. №1.
  3. Вісник Природознавства. 1927–1931. №1–10.
  4. Труди Донецької гідробіологічної станції ім. проф. В. М. Арнольді. 1940. №1.
  5. Труди сільськогосподарської ботаніки. 1926–1929. №1–2.
  6. Труди Донецької експедиції. 1930. №1.
  7. Збірник праць Канівського біогеографічного заповідника. 1947-1952. №1–7.
  8. Природа заповідника «Гористе».1941. №1.
  9. Курсы по подготовке руководителей для ведения экскурсий с детьми в природу. 1915. №1.
  10. Вісти Природничої Секції УНТ. 1918–1919. №1–3.
  11. Збірник праць Державного рибного заповідника «Конча-Заспа». 1928. №1.
  12. Материалы к познанию фауны Южной России. 1915–1917. №1–2.
  13. Записки Полтавського сільськогосподарського інституту. 1930. № 4(1).
  14. Наукові записки по біології.1927. №1.
  15. Український зоологічний журнал. 1923. №1.
  16. Зоологічний журнал України. 1921. №1.
  17. Збірник, присвячений 30-річчю Музею. 1928. Т.№1.
  18. Відомости про результати полювання в маєтках кн. В. С. Кочубея за 20 років (1897— 1916). Щорічник полтавського народного природничого музею №5-6-7. 1916-1918. С. 32.
  19. Жихарьов П. Заметка о златкахъ. (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) Полтавской губерніи. Щорічник полтавського народного природничого музею №5-6-7. 1916-1918. С. 29-31.
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Metadatos adicionales

Agradecimientos The authors express their gratitude to Nataliia Shchebetiuk (National Agricultural Library), Liudmyla Lastykova (Library of the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology), and Viktoriia Kunets (Library of the Sokolovskyi Institute of Soil Science) for their assistance in accessing rare publications. Special thanks are also extended to Denys Davydov, whose Botanical Blog (https://davydovbotany.blogspot.com/) was of significant help in identifying lists of publications sought by the contributors during the creation of this dataset.
Introducción This dataset therefore serves as a preservation effort for invaluable historical information on biodiversity collected by Ukrainian scientists and conservationists during the first half of the XX century, providing access to data that would otherwise have been irretrievably lost.
Primeros pasos One of the main reasons for their extreme rarity lies in the period of Soviet repressions of the 1930s, when, under directives of the party leadership, the majority of scientists, conservationists, and members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia were persecuted or executed. Publications of scientific societies, as well as any materials printed in the Ukrainian language, were systematically confiscated and destroyed. Consequently, the full extent of scientific output from that period remains largely unknown.
Propósito

To compile this dataset, both analytical and investigative work were undertaken. Archival searches allowed the identification of repositories holding the last surviving copies of these rare publications, from which digital versions were created for the first time. Some of these sources were previously unknown even to the scientific community and now exist in a severely deteriorated physical condition.
Descripción de mantenimiento The dataset is open for further contributions and will be continuously expanded, with unknown regularity, as additional rare scientific publications are processed.
Identificadores alternativos 27209824-d4ee-4a92-bd19-9215f980f34e
https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=digitaloldliteratureua1