Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre

Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre Reference and research service supporting Slavic and East European studies.

The Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre (PJRC) was founded in 1994 through the generosity of Petro Jacyk, a Toronto businessman and philanthropist, and his foundation. Our staff is here to:

Offer bibliographic, research, and instructional services for information on Russia and central and eastern Europe;

Facilitate access to collections in all Slavic, Baltic, and Finno-Ugric lang

uages across the University of Toronto Libraries;

Identify and locate electronic resources at the University and around the world;

Support teaching and research for the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the five research chairs in Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish history, and Ukrainian studies.

✨️📚 A new school year is just around the corner! Stop by the PJRC to explore our refreshed Free Books Display and find y...
08/21/2026

✨️📚 A new school year is just around the corner! Stop by the PJRC to explore our refreshed Free Books Display and find your next great read. We also have dust jacket covers available for anyone looking for materials for creative projects.

07/09/2026
The PJRC mourns the passing and celebrates the life of a friend of the University of Toronto Libraries. Professor Potich...
06/06/2026

The PJRC mourns the passing and celebrates the life of a friend of the University of Toronto Libraries. Professor Potichnyj was a tremendous contributor to the UTL, regularly donating books to the circulating collection in Robarts, and most significantly establishing the Peter J. Potichnyj Collection in Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Ukraine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. This collection was officially opened nearly thirty years ago, in Spring 1997, with a reception at the Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre.

Celebrate the life of Dr. Peter Potichnyj, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Markey-Dermody Funeral Home.

Spring is here! And that means that the latest edition of the PJRC update is here too! Keep an eye out for this 17th edi...
04/17/2026

Spring is here!
And that means that the latest edition of the PJRC update is here too!
Keep an eye out for this 17th edition around Robarts , or come pick up a copy at our desk on the third floor.

Only while supplies last, so be sure to get your copy!

Read online here: https://archive.org/details/pjrc-update-spring-2026-web/mode/2up

The PJRC team wishes everyone a very happy Easter! Here is a sample of some of the beautiful books on Easter themes we h...
04/01/2026

The PJRC team wishes everyone a very happy Easter!

Here is a sample of some of the beautiful books on Easter themes we have from 🇭🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇦🇨🇿🇱🇹

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇿This week’s post showcases a unique item we found in the stacks! Printed in 1834, this three-volume travelogue ...
03/27/2026

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This week’s post showcases a unique item we found in the stacks!

Printed in 1834, this three-volume travelogue follows the journey through Central Asia of Sir Alexander Burnes (cousin of Scottish poet Robert Burnes). Burnes, shown here wearing traditional Uzbek clothing, travelled throughout the region as a diplomat and translator until his assassination in Kabul in 1841.

His engravings are priceless depictions of the region, such as the image of the giant ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

Just one of the treasures found by chance in the Robarts Stacks!

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