Sprawozdanie wojewody wołyńskiego o stanie bezpieczeństwa województwa w przededniu kampanii polskiej 1939 roku
The report of the Volhynia voivodship governor about voivodeship’s security the day before Polish campaign of 1939

Summary/Abstract: Sources, related with this topic, are stored in Polish and foreign archives, mainly inUkrainian – National Archives of Volhynia District in Luck. Volhynia voivodeshipamounted to 35,7 thousand sq meters, the voivodeship formed 11 countries, 22 towns and103 rural municipalities. According to the data in the census from 1931, populationaccounted to 2 085,6 thousands, of which 252,5 thousands lived in the towns, and 1 833, 1in the rural areas. Province was inhabited mainly by Ukrainian citizens – 1 426,9 thousand(68,4%) declared Ukrainian language, 346,6 thousand (16,6%) Polish language, and 205,5thousand (9,9%) Yiddish and Hebrew.There were complicated relationship between Voivodship’s inhabitants (mainlyUkrainians) and Polish authorities. The attitudes of Province’s society towards Polishauthorities were differentiated. The record contains numerous examples of differentresidents attitudes towards Polish authorities in July 1939. First part contains mainly thevoivodship governor’s synthetic evaluation of Volhynia voivodeship’s security as “certain[its] improving”, which extensively justifies.

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