A fascinating infographic map of Ukraine showing the locations of 16 different nationalities and ethnicities using dot distribution. Each dot or symbol represents a population of 5,000 people. Nationalities mapped include Ukrainians, Russian, Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Germans, Romanians, Greeks, Hungarians, Central Asians, and Jews. Different symbols and colours represent each of these groups. The population statistics of cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants are mapped using pie charts, though only Ukrainians, Poles, Russians, Jews, and 'others' are included in the pie charts.

This map was produced just one year before the start of the Second World War. Its creator, the Ukrainian anthropologist and geographer Wolodymyr Kubijowytsch, was an enthusiastic Nazi sympathiser during the war and an outspoken anti-Semite, making this map a chilling but important record of Ukraine prior to the atrocities of Holocaust. It shows how significant the Jewish population of Ukraine was in the 1930s, especially in cities, but it also shows how diverse and multi-cultural Ukraine was at this time. A large Polish population existed in the west, while many Russians mixed with Ukrainians in the east, creating a fluid border between Ukraine and the Soviet Union. Substantial colonies of Germans, Romanians, Serbs, and Hungarians were also dotted across the country, a legacy of 19th century immigration into the fertile farmlands of central Ukraine. Finally, there were still historic enclaves of Greeks, Armenian, and Central Asian populations, some of whom had moved to Ukraine centuries or millennia ago.

This map is frequently found in institutional libraries, but is rarely offered for sale on the open market.

Printed colour. [RUS2663]