text: Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky (birth name: Dmitriy Ivanovich Evarnitsky; rus, Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Іва́нович Яворни́цький, Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Яворницкий, Dmitry Ivanovich Yavornitsky) (November 6, 1855, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire – August 5, 1940, Dnepropetrovsk, USSR) was a noted Ukrainian-Russian and Soviet historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer.