Mariya Pirko
PhD, Scientific Researcher, Scientific Bibliography Depart­ment, Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv

Mykola Сhaikovskyi (1887–1970) was the son of Ukrainian writer Andrii Chaikovskyi, a renowned Ukrainian mathematician, author of numerous scien­tific and popular science works, textbooks, terminological dictionaries, encyc­lopedic articles and interesting memoirs. He was a full member of the Mathe­matical, Natural Sciences and Medical Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1913 and a member of the Bibliographic Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1923. Bibliography occupies an impor­tant place in the Сhaikovskyi’s scientific work. He was the compiler of the first bibliographic indexes in Ukraine in the field of natural sciences. M. Chai­kovskyi prepared a recommended index of mathematics for self-education (Lviv, 1910). It was intended for high school students and applicants who wanted to enter universities. Two indexes of the contents of the “Collection of the Mathematical, Natural Sciences and Medical Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society” (Lviv, 1910; 1927) remained for a long time the only bibliographic sources that revealed the content of this authoritative professional collection and played an important role in the development of Ukrainian sectoral bibliography.
In 1929, M. Сhaikovskyi received an invitation to become a professor of mathematics at the Institute of Public Education in Odesa and moved to Soviet Ukraine. Here he published a bibliographic index entitled “Ukrainian Ma­thematical Scientific Bibliography (1894–1929)” (Odesa, 1931), equipped with all the necessary attributes of a scientific publication: a thorough preface and an auxiliary index of authors. The bibliographic array of 517 titles became the basis for interesting statistical calculations of mathematical output (recorded in seven tables) in individual cities, institutions, and periodicals.
In 1933–1943, M. Сhaikovskyi was repressed by the Stalinist regime on false charges and served his sentence in camps (Karelia, Solovki). Only after his rehabilitation in 1956 he was able to return to Ukraine and engage in pe­dagogical and scientific activities. He helped to prepare the “Ukrainian Ma­thematical Bibliography, 1917–1960” (Kyiv, 1963), which lists his works in various genres (73 titles). Later, he compiled an autobiographical bibliography of his works from 1905–1968 (193 titles), which is kept in his personal fund in the State Archives of the Ternopil Region.

Keywords: Mykola Сhaikovskyi, Ukrainian mathematical bibliography, Mathematical, Natural Sciences and Medical Section of the Shevchenko Scien­tific Society in Lviv, Bibliographic Commission, bibliography methodology, autobibliography.

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