P.P. Chubynsky's Role in Organizing and Conducting an Ethnographic Expedition to the Southwestern Region in 1869-1970

The article is devoted to the participation of Pavlo Chubynsky in organizing and conducting an ethnographic expedition to the Southwestern region in 1869-1870. Thanks to the publication of its results, materials about the state of trade in different areas, the peculiarities of economic activity, and traditional beliefs and rituals, which most reveal the soul of the Ukrainian people, have been preserved.