Volodymyr Hnatiuk (May 9, 1871 – October 6, 1926), writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers. Hnatiuk focused primarily on West Ukraine, gathering information about folk songs, legends, customs and dialects. He was a close companion of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Ivan Franko. Member of Russian Academy of Arts (1902), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1905).