Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk

Kateryna Mykolayivna Antonovych-Melnyk (; 2 December 1859 – 12 January 1942) was a Ukrainian historian and archaeologist.

Life Antonovych-Melnyk was born in Khorol in 1859. Her father was M. Melnyk and her family were doctors.

In the 1880s she participated in the archaeological excavations near Shumsk (today – Ternopil Oblast) and in 1885, she visited Ternopil during her travels.

She and Volodymyr Antonovych were the parents in 1877 to former Ukrainian minister (and cultural historian in Prague) Dmytro Antonovych. Her husband died in 1908. Antonovych-Melnyk was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv and the Ukrainian Scientific Society in Kyev, founded in 1907. She was involved in the creation of the museums at the University of Kiev and in Dnipro. From 1929 she prepared the printing of the first two volumes of the complete works of her husband. Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk died in Kiev in 1942 and was buried at the Baikove Cemetery.