Halychyna (Галичина): a historic Ukrainian region named after the town of Halych, and comprised of modern day Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.

Horodetsky (Городецький): Taras Horodetsky was a master pysankar from the Sokal region of Ukraine who was known for the intricacy and precision of his work, and for his characteristic horses.  Horodetsky’s work has become popularized by the book “The World in the Pysanky of Taras Horodetsky.”  His name is sometimes mis-transliterated as “Taras Gorodetskij.”

horsetail: known as a “sosonka” or “khvoshch (хвощ)” in Ukrainian.  The genus  Equisetum is considered is a "living fossil," as it is the only living genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over one hundred million years was much more diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests.

hryvnia (гривня): modern Ukrainian unit of money, sometimes incorrectly transliterated as a gryvnia.

huberniya (губернія): governorate, a tsarist-era political division equivalent to a province or state.  Many tsarist huberniyi became oblasts in the USSR.  In Russian, “guberniya.”

Hutsul:  one of the three highlander ethnicities of Ukraine, Hutsuls are an ethno-cultural group Ukrainians, who for centuries have inhabited the Carpathian mountains, mainly in Ukraine and in the northern extremity of Romania (in the areas of Bukovina and Maramureş).

Hutsuls are known for their distinctive handcrafts and intricate pysanky. Oleksa Dovbush, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, was a Hutsul, as was composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk, author of “Chervona Ruta.”

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