Ukraina

We call upon the workers throughout the world to insist that the people of Ukraina, Finland and the Russian border provinces, now under the heel of junkerdom, must receive freedom and self-determination.

1918 July 2, New York State Socialist party, Chicago Daily News, Chicago, Ill., →OCLC; quoted in Philip S[heldon] Foner, “NY State SP Endorses Soviets”, in The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Impact on American Radicals, Liberlals, and Labor: A Documentary Study, New York, N.Y.: International Publishers, 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, “The First Year: November 1917 to November 1918” section, page 110

Ukrainian proper, the “Ukrainian dialect of the Ukrainian language,” is spoken in the outer forest fringe and in the parkland from the environs of Lvov (Lemberg) to the eastern limits of Ukraina and in all places colonised by natives of this belt. A line drawn from Kiev to Lvov may be regarded as the central axis of this dialect before its steppeward expansion. It coincides with the political and cultural axis of medieval (13-16th centuries) Ukraina.

1931, D[mitry] S[vyatopolk-]Mirsky, “The Two West Russian Nations”, in Russia: A Social History, London: The Cresset Press, published 1942 (2nd impression), →OCLC, chapter III (White Russia and Ukraina (XIIIth-XVIIIth Centuries)), page 63

The soil covering of Ukraina presents in general a great variety, comprising the podzoline soils on one hand, and a series of sub-types of chernozyoms, up-to^([sic]) the southern and chestnut ones on the other. This variety of soils in Ukraina depends upon many factors; […]

1931, Contributions of the Ukrainian Institute for Soil Research, volume 3, Kharkiv, →OCLC, page 39