Database of PVOs Working in Ukraine Goes Online


Max Pyziur, a St. Louis-based Ukrainian-American, has posted onto the Internet a database he created of more than 300 American organizations engaged in some sort of Private Voluntary/ Non-Governmental Organization (PVO/ NGO) activity on behalf of Ukraine.

Organizational information in the database includes telephone and address, a description of the general purpose of the organization, its role in the NIS, specific project information, and contact information for the organization's representatives in Ukrai ne. Forty of the organizations listed have offices or partners in Ukraine.

There are also 56 categories that correspond to sectors an organization is active in (agriculture, law, etc.) and types of assistance it provides. (Those adept with databases can do on-line sorts using these categories.) The information in the database comes from a variety of periodicals and newsletters and from materials Pyziur collected at the US-NIS Forum held in St. Louis last October.

The database (orgngou.txt) can be viewed on-line or downloaded as an Ascii text file for which Pyziur has designed an easy-to-read format. This file can be viewed and printed by even the most rudimentary word processors. We were able to download the file and import it into WordPerfect without a hitch.

Please note:

The database is a large file, more than 1.25 megabytes, and could take several minutes or more to link to from here. If you want to visit the file now, Click Here

For more technically-oriented people, there is a database file (orgngou.zip) in dBase 3+ format which can be downloaded in Binary mode and imported into most later-generation PC-based database programs. We had no problem importing the database into Par adox 4.0 for DOS and Windows.

List of Ukrainian-American organizations

In the same directory as the database is a list of addresses of 80 Ukrainian-American organizations. It is the most complete list of this kind we know of.

Ukrainian e-mail addresses

Pyziur has also posted a list of 200 assorted Ukrainian e-mail and mailing addresses he obtained from a FTP site in Kharkiv. Included in this list are businesses and s cientific institutes, several stock and commodity exchanges and banks. Other examples are:

Pyziur has collected many more interesting files at this gopher site. People having additions to propose should contact him at:

4434 Castleman, #2W,
St. Louis, MO 63110-3250.

Tel: (314) 773-1696
Fax: 935-6359
Internet: [email protected] or [email protected]

Where Max's Files Are

The files are located at the Ohio Super Computing Center and are accessible by either Gopher or FTP. Gopher (described on the next page) is preferable; it allows you, for example, to see what's in a file in order to decide whether you really want it. Al so, getting a file by Gopher is as easy as sending e-mail. But not all computing centers are "Gopher sites." Therefore, we describe below both ways of accessing Max's files: first, using FTP (file transfer protocol), which is more or less a foolproof and universal file transfer utility on the Internet. Then, Gopher.

This article is from the March 1994 issue of
Net Talk

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Last updated: October 1994

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