Lidiia Hryhorchuk

Lidiia Mikhailovna Hryhorchuk (; 24 November 1926 – 14 January 2018) was a Ukrainian linguist, linguogeographer, dialectologist, paleographer, art critic, professor and a doctor of philology. She was a junior researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1956 to 1972 before becoming a senior researcher between 1999 and 2002. Hryhorchuk was a professor of philology at the University of Lviv, her alma mater, and at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. She was elected to the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1992 and was appointed a Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology in 2006.

Biography On 24 November 1926, Hryhorchuk was born in Lviv. She was a 1949 law graduate of the University of Lviv. In 1950, Hryhorchuk was illegally imprisoned in the camps of Tayshet in the Irkutsk Oblast and later in Mordovia. She was successfully rehabilitated in 1956. Hryhorchuk was elected to the Shevchenko Scientific Society on 28 March 1992. She received the honorary award in 2005 and she was appointed a Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology in 2006.

She was the writer of the book Adverb in modern Ukrainian literary language: Specifics of connections and meanings that was published in 1964. She was the editor and co-author of the second edition of the Atlas of the Ukrainian Language in 1988. and the monograph Relief of the Ukrainian language space (continuous studies) in 2013.

She died on 14 January 2018 in Lviv.