The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian: Історія міст і сіл Української РСР) is a Ukrainian encyclopedia, published in 26 volumes. It provides knowledge about the history of all populated places in Ukraine.
It was approved by the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1962 and published for the first time the very same year. The chief editor was the noted scholar and historian Petro Tronko.[1]
This is the first thorough historical work of its kind. Each volume covered the history of all populated places in different regions of Ukraine, and at that time they numbered almost 40,000. The encyclopedia played an important role in collecting materials for writing essays about the villages. The encyclopedia was compiled by the State Historical Library of Ukraine together with the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine (part of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, NASU). The publication of History of towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR was also published in Russian.
There were published 26 volumes of the encyclopedia (one for each region of Ukraine). In addition, there are also ten more volumes that were published separately in the Russian language.