The places
of Green Ukraine.

The principal port of the Russian Far East, founded in 1860 as the Russian Pacific naval base, with a substantial Ukrainian-settler community from the late 1880s onward. The principal Vladivostok sites of Green Ukraine historical interest: the surviving early-twentieth-century neighbourhoods of the old town (where substantial portions of the pre-revolutionary Ukrainian community lived); the building of the Vladivostok Ukrainian Prosvita society (operating 1907-1937, in a substantial building on the modern Komsomolskaya Street); the location of the Fourth Ukrainian Far Eastern Congress (October 1918, in the former Vladivostok stock exchange building, which still stands in modified form); and the Far Eastern State University (the principal contemporary institution of Far Eastern history), which holds substantial archival material on the period.

The principal administrative city of the Russian Far East, on the Amur river at its confluence with the Ussuri. Substantial pre-revolutionary Ukrainian-settler population. Sites of historical interest: the location of the Second Ukrainian Far Eastern Congress (January 1918, in the former Khabarovsk military academy, partly preserved as the contemporary Far Eastern Military District building); the Khabarovsk Region Museum (with substantial Far Eastern history collections); and the surviving early-twentieth-century commercial district where the Ukrainian merchant community had concentrated.

The Primorye market town where the First All-Ukrainian Far Eastern Congress convened in June 1917. The town remained, through the early Soviet period, the principal rural Ukrainian-settlement market town of the region. The historical Congress location was the local agricultural assembly hall, partially preserved as a contemporary cultural centre. The surrounding rural districts preserve substantial Ukrainian-settlement village names and rural Ukrainian-tradition vernacular architecture (the so-called "ukrainian khata" rural houses, with characteristic whitewashed walls and thatched roofs; only a few examples survive, in various states of preservation).

On the Amur river opposite the Chinese city of Heihe (with a substantial Soviet-period Ukrainian-settler community in the surrounding rural districts). The Amur Region Museum holds substantial collections on the regional history including the Green Ukraine period. The contemporary Blagoveshchensk Ukrainian cultural society maintains the residual community institutional life.

The principal Trans-Baikal city, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic from 1920 to 1922, with substantial Ukrainian-settler population. The Far Eastern Republic Museum at Chita preserves substantial material on the 1920-1922 period including the residual Ukrainian Far Eastern community's participation in the Republic's affairs.

Sakhalin Island was, from the 1880s until 1906, a penal colony of the Russian Empire; substantial numbers of Ukrainian-speaking political prisoners and convicted criminals served sentences there, with substantial residual community presence after the formal end of penal colony status. The substantial Soviet-period Sakhalin Ukrainian community continued through the post-1945 Soviet period. The principal sites of interest: the Sakhalin Regional Museum at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; the former penal-colony sites on the island's east coast; the small Ukrainian cultural society at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Harbin, in northeastern China, was — through the early Soviet period — a substantial centre of the post-1922 Russian Far Eastern Ukrainian exile community. The Manchurian Russian railway zone (operated by Russian-then-Soviet personnel through the 1920s and 1930s under various international treaties) included a substantial Ukrainian-language exile population at Harbin. The principal Ukrainian-language exile newspaper, Manchurske Slovo, was published at Harbin from 1929 to 1942. The community was substantially dispersed in 1945-1949 with the post-war Soviet occupation of Manchuria and the subsequent Chinese Communist takeover; some emigrated further to Australia and the Americas, others were repatriated to Soviet territory. Harbin preserves a substantial Russian-tradition urban architectural inheritance from the period; the residual Ukrainian-community sites are largely lost.

The principal contemporary academic centre for Ukrainian diaspora studies, founded at the University of Alberta in 1976. The associated archives — the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village (a substantial open-air museum of Ukrainian-Canadian rural community life), the Edmonton Public Library's Ukrainian collection, and the Ukrainian-Canadian Archives and Museum — preserve substantial documentary material on the Far Eastern Ukrainian community, including substantial portions of Ivan Svit's personal archive and various other Far Eastern-related collections.

The principal American-Ukrainian scholarly institution, founded in 1947 as the New York re-establishment of the Lviv-based Shevchenko Scientific Society. The associated library and archives hold substantial documentary material on the Russian Far Eastern Ukrainian community, including Ivan Svit's personal archive (which is partly housed in New York and partly at Edmonton), the substantial Hlushko-Mova family archive, and various other Far Eastern-related collections donated by the post-1945 Ukrainian-American emigration.

The principal contemporary Ukrainian academic institution for the study of the Ukrainian diaspora and historical Ukrainian-state issues. The Institute holds substantial documentary collections on the historical Green Ukraine project, conducts contemporary research on the Far Eastern Ukrainian inheritance, and publishes the principal Ukrainian-language scholarly journal on diaspora studies. Conditions of travel to Kyiv have, since the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion, been substantially complicated; check current advice.

The largest Ukrainian-diaspora community in North America (perhaps 1.3 million ethnic Ukrainians across Canada, with about 200,000 in greater Toronto). The community's substantial institutional infrastructure — the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Ukrainian National Federation, various Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Church institutions, the Ukrainian Museum at Toronto, the substantial Ukrainian-language press — preserves the post-1945 substantial cultural inheritance and includes contemporary attention to the Far Eastern community's historical legacy.

The substantial post-1945 Australian-Ukrainian community was, in its origins, partly composed of the post-Harbin Far Eastern Ukrainian exiles who had been forced to flee Manchuria after 1945. The principal Australian-Ukrainian institutional infrastructure (the Ukrainian Cultural Centre at Essendon in Melbourne, the various Ukrainian-Catholic parishes) preserves substantial documentary and oral-history inheritance from this Far Eastern source. The community is small (perhaps 40,000 Australian-Ukrainians across the country) but has been substantially active in preserving the Far Eastern memory.