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

Occurrence Observation
Dernière version Publié par Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) le déc. 6, 2025 Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO)
Date de publication:
6 décembre 2025
Licence:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

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.

Enregistrements de données

Les données de cette ressource occurrence ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 46 552 enregistrements.

Cet IPT archive les données et sert donc de dépôt de données. Les données et métadonnées de la ressource sont disponibles pour téléchargement dans la section téléchargements. Le tableau des versions liste les autres versions de chaque ressource rendues disponibles de façon publique et permet de tracer les modifications apportées à la ressource au fil du temps.

Versions

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Comment citer

Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:

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

Droits

Les chercheurs doivent respecter la déclaration de droits suivante:

L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0.

Enregistrement GBIF

Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : 27209824-d4ee-4a92-bd19-9215f980f34e.  Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du Participant Node Managers Committee.

Mots-clé

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

Contacts

Olexiy Vasyliuk
  • Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
  • Créateur ●
  • Personne De Contact
  • Head
NGO "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group"
Vasylkiv
UA
  • +380971000473
Maksym Marushchak
  • Créateur
  • student
Faculty of Economics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Kyiv
UA
  • +380985082151
Oleksii Marushchak
  • Curateur Des Données ●
  • Créateur
  • researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
01030 Kyiv
UA
  • +380964882670
Marko Miasoiedov
  • Créateur
  • student
Lyceum №43 "Grail" with in-depth study of subjects of the social and humanitarian cycle
Kyiv
UA
Viktor Parkhomenko
  • Créateur
  • environmentalist
NGO "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group"
UA
Vladyslav Kovalchuk
  • Créateur
UA
Artem Kostryts
  • Créateur
UA

Couverture géographique

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

Enveloppe géographique Sud Ouest [39,021, 23,901], Nord Est [58,449, 133,125]

Couverture taxonomique

The dataset includes a very wide variety of living organisms.

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

Couverture temporelle

Epoque de formation 1814/1998

Données sur le projet

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.

Titre Conservation of Natural Heritage for LIFE in Ukraine
Identifiant LIFE23-PRE-CZ-ConNaturLIFE Ukraine

Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:

Olexiy Vasyliuk
  • Personne De Contact

Méthodes d'échantillonnage

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.

Etendue de l'étude 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.
Contrôle qualité 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.

Description des étapes de la méthode:

  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.

Citations bibliographiques

  1. Охорона пам’яток природи на Україні. 1927-1928. №1-2.
  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.
  20. Іванов С. П., Житкевич О. Н. Огляд масового розмноження лучного метелика (Loxostege sticticalis L.) в 1935 р. в основній зоні бурякосіяння (лісостеп УРСР, Курська та Воронезька області РРФСР) і в сусідніх з нею степових областях УРСР. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 4. – Київ, 1937. с. 111-169.
  21. Іванов С. П., Кришталь О. П. Матеріали до пізнання шкідливої ентомофауни грунту на полях правобережного Лісостепу та Полісся України (родини Elateridae, Alleculidae, Tenebrionidac й Scarabaeidae). Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 1. – Київ, 1933 С. 97-133.
  22. Лебедєв А. Г. До пізнання фауни й екології комах-запилячів квіткових рослин. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 1. – Київ, 1933 С. 13–51.
  23. Лебедєв А. Г. Матеріали до вивчання біоценози листяного лісу. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 1. – Київ, 1933 С. 51–78.
  24. Лебедєв А. Г. Матеріали до вивчання біоценозу листяного лісу (ч. II). Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 2. – Київ, 1935. с. 19-55.
  25. Лебедєв А. Г. Матеріали до вивчення біоценозу листяного лісу (ч. III). Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 3. – Київ, 1937. с. 25-73.
  26. Музиченко Ю. О. До пізнання фауни та екології комах — запилювачів плодових культур. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 3. – Київ, 1937. C. 73-118.
  27. Невкрита О. М. До пізнання фауни та екології комах-запилювачів родини Сucurbitaceae. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 4. – Київ, 1937. с. 231-254.
  28. Ніколаєв В. Рослинність багнищ західної частини Полтавщини. Щорічник полтавського народного природничого музею №5-6-7. 1916-1918. С. 33-59.
  29. Пархоменко В. Ю. Матеріали до пізнання фауни та екології пластинчастовусих жуків у Витяно Трипільській дачі Київського лісгоспу. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 5. – Київ, 1938. С. 3-23.
  30. Пархоменко В. Ю. Матеріали про склад та екологію грунтової фауни жуків (Соleoptera) в дачах Балтського лісгоспу МАРСР. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 5. – Київ, 1938. с.31-52.
  31. Руднев Д. Ф. Методи обслідування й обліку зараженості лісів сосновою нічницею Panolis flammea Schiff. Збірник праць Сектору екології наземних тварин. Ч. 2. – Київ, 1935. с. 57-134.

Métadonnées additionnelles

Remerciements 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.
Introduction 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.
Premiers pas 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.
Objet

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.
Description de la fréquence de mise à jour The dataset is open for further contributions and will be continuously expanded, with unknown regularity, as additional rare scientific publications are processed.
Identifiants alternatifs 27209824-d4ee-4a92-bd19-9215f980f34e
https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=digitaloldliteratureua1