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, book 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 second volume "Carol and Christmas carols "collected carols for boys and girls, carols for the dead, congratulations, dances, humorous carols, etc., which today are of interest to folklorists and all who are interested in Ukrainian culture.