| Petro Medvedyk | |
| Birth Date: | 22 October 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Zhabynia, Poland (now Ukraine) |
| Death Place: | Velykyi Hlybochok, Ukraine |
| Nationality: | Ukrainian |
| Alma Mater: | Lviv University |
Petro Medvedyk (Ukrainian: Петро Костьович Медведик; 22 October 1925 – 2 December 2006) was a Ukrainian literary critic, folklorist, ethnographer, bibliographer, art historian, local historian. Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1998), member of the Lviv Commission of the International Association of Ukrainian Bibliographers, and honorary member of the All-Ukrainian Union of Local History (1996).[1]
Petro Medvedyk was born on 22 October 1925 in Zhabynia, now Zboriv urban hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
In 1952 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Lviv University. He worked as a teacher in Velyka Plavucha (Ternopil Raion, 1950–1951), Staryi Tarazh (Kremenets Raion, 1951–1952), Kobzarivka (1952–1958) and Velykyi Hlybochok (both in Ternopil Raion, 1959–1986). At the same time, in 1980–1985, he was a lecturer in Ukrainian folklore and pedagogical practice at the Ternopil Pedagogical Institute.
From 1985, he was a senior researcher at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Memorial Museum in Bila, Ternopil Raion.
He collected and recorded folk songs and stories.
Main books:
Collected, organized and published folklore collections:
Articles in collections:
Indexes:
In 1993 and 1998, in "Notes of the National Academy of Sciences. Works of the Musicology Commission" was published Medvedyk's research "Diiachi ukrainskoi muzychnoi kultury: Materialy do bibliohrafichnoho slovnyka". He has written and published many memoirs about Ukrainian writers, composers, actors, directors, and artists.
Medvedyk has more than 800 articles in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, Ukrainian Literary Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine, Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of Artists of Ukraine (1973), Shevchenko Dictionary (vol. 12; 1976–77), encyclopedia Art of Ukraine (1995, vol. 1), reference books Artists of Ukraine (1992) and Art of Ukraine (1997). Medvedyk is also the author of indexes and publications on Ukrainian personalities, including Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, Solomiya Krushelnytska, Kateryna Rubchakova, Denys Sichynskyi, and Yakiv Strukhmanchuk.
In 2007, a room-museum named after him was opened in Velykyi Hlybochok.
A regional award was established in Medvedik's honor.[2]