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The Academperiodic Publishing House of the NAS of Ukraine has published a reference edition "Ukrainian Nomenclature of Minerals". The reference book was prepared in accordance with the Resolution of the Terminological Commission at the Ukrainian Mineralogical Society (UMS) on the spelling and method of formation of Ukrainian names of minerals. The authors are employees of the M.P. Semenenko Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation of the NAS of Ukraine, the President of the UMS, Doctor of Geological Sciences, Hanna Kulchytska, and members of the Kyiv Branch of the UMS, Candidate of Geological Sciences, Dariya Chernysh and Larysa Setaya.
The presentation of the book took place on December 8, 2022 at a solemn meeting of the Academic Council of the Institute and the UMT on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Yevhen Lazarenko in the small conference hall of the Institute.
Small conference hall of the Institute. Solemn meeting of the Academic Council. Book presentation
The directory contains information about 7 thousand minerals, including 5.78 thousand approved by 2021: the name of the mineral in three languages, the most important data on the chemical composition and structure, the status of the mineral or its name, the year of approval, the origin of the name. For each approved species, crystallochemical formulas, data on the crystal syngony, affiliation to the largest groups, the presence of polymorphic modifications, dates of discovery, redefinition and renaming, etymology of the name, country of discovery are provided. For approved species, an abbreviation of the name is provided, recommended for use in publications.
The main goal of the publication is to create a normative base of mineral names in Ukrainian, adapted to the recommendations of the International Mineralogical Association.
Bibliographic description of the publication
G. Kulchetska, D. Chernysh, L. Setaya; Ukrainian nomenclature of minerals. — /Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation named after M.P. Semenenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Ukrainian Mineralogical Society/. — Kyiv. Akademperiodika, 2022. — 547 (44,53). — 110. — ISBN 978-966-360-463-3.
For scientists, teachers, and museum workers of a mineralogical profile.

The electronic version of the guide is available at the following link:
Handbook "Ukrainian Nomenclature of Minerals", 2022.
According to the author of the book, the President of the UMT, Doctor of Geological Sciences, Hanna Kulchetskaya
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