About A. Hrabar's work "Birds of the Carpathian Rus". - A.E. Lugovoy. - Berkut. 6 (1-2). 1997. P. 90-91.
Foreword to reprint of the first summary on bird fauna of Ukrainian part of the Carpathians (partly also East Slovakia). It was published in Russinian (a dialect of Ukrainian) in the journal "Podkarpatska Rus" in 1931 and in Czech translation in 1932. Both these articles are practically inaccessible in Ukraine now. The Czech variant (it was complemented and therefore fuller) was translated in Russian, some missing phrases were added from the Russinian text (italic). Some comments are given. [Russian].
Key words: A. Hrabar, Carpathians, birds, fauna, reprint.