Among the prominent scholars, natives of Ternopil region, a prominent place belongs to Vladimir Hnatiuk (1871-1926) - a prominent folklorist, ethnographer, linguist, literary critic, historian, journalist, editor, publisher, translator, sociologist, demographer, demographer, member Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1924), member of the Czech Scientific Society (1905), Prague and Vienna Academies of Sciences. About 300 works - monographs, articles, reviews, etc. - testify to his truly titanic scientific work.
On the eve of the First World War, Volodymyr Hnatyuk published a two-volume book "Carols and Christmas Carols" (1914). He worked on its arrangement for almost 15 years. This collection contains ethnographic materials from all regions of Ukraine (except Transcarpathia). It is based on the records of Z. Khodakovsky and I. Vahylevych, O. Bodyansky and Mark Vovchko, I. Lyatorovsky and O. Savchuk and dozens of manuscript collections of the late XIX - early XX centuries.
In the first volume "Carol and Christmas carols "are collected outdoor carols, carols for old (grandparents), master and mistress, priest and widow, etc., which have not lost their value today.
