Potebnia Institute of Linguistics  Potebnia Institute of Linguistics is a research institute in Ukraine that is part of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine department of literature, language, and art studies and focusing on lingual research and studies of lingual issues. The institute is located in Kiev. The institute was established in 1930 after merging several smaller separate lingual research institutions that existed in 1920s, particularly the Institute of Ukrainian Scientific Language. The institute is named after Ukrainianist Alexander Potebnja (properly Olexander Potebnia). Due to political persecutions in the Soviet Union in 1930s, the real work of the new institute did not start until after the World War II. In 1930s many members of the institute were trialed at staged process of the Union for the Freedom of Ukraine. In 1991 from the department of Ukrainian Studies, there was created separate Institute of Ukrainian Language. Beside the Potebnya Institute of Linguistics, the building also houses two other research institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Shevchenko Institute of Literature and the Institute of History of Ukraine.