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A study about literary and other relations of the outstanding Ukrainian writer, scientist and politician Ivan Franko with the Slovaks, their history and culture. A special attention from the side of author is paid to I. Franko's work about Jan Kollar, who had a key influence on the representatives of west-Ukrainian revival. Vice versa, I. Franko's revolutionary and democratic ideas were an important stimulation for the progressive development of the Slovak youth, and his work for the progress of realism in the Slovak literature.