We examine the legislative aspect of legal regulation of citizenship in the Ukrainian national state formations of 1917–1921. There is an idea that Ukrainian state formations generally paid insufficient attention to the problems of legal regulation of citizenship Institute and the underestimation of the factor of nationality in the context of the interests of the ethnic Ukrainian to some extent contributed to the loss of the Ukrainian national state of their own.
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