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Borys Dmytrovych Grinchenko (1863–1910) was a classical Ukrainian prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and ethnographer. He was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Author of the first dictionary of the Ukrainian language, editor of a number of Ukrainian periodicals. He advocated the spread of the Ukrainian language in schools and institutions. Grinchenko was an editor of various Ukrainian periodicals. He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Radical Party. Grinchenko also was an author of seminal ethnographic, lexicographic, and pedagogical works, literary studies, historical reviews, the first textbooks in the Ukrainian language, particularly Native word, the school-book for reading. He was an editor of the four-volume Словарь української мови (Ukrainian Dictionary; "Kievskaya starina" publishing, Kiev 1907–1909). One of the organizers and the first director of the Prosvita Society in Kyiv.
