The Draft Ukrainian orthography of 1939 (Ukrainian: Проєкт українського правопису 1939 року, romanized: Proiekt ukrainskoho pravopysu 1939 roku) to replace the orthography of 1933 was prepared by the State Spelling Commission at the Institute of Linguistics of the UkrSSR Academy of Sciences, with the official goal of "eliminating nationalist distortions" of the spelling.
On May 8, 1938, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus (Bolsheviks) composed of: F. Redko (chairman), M. Hrunskyi (scientific secretary), T. Shmatlai, M. Boiko, Pelipas, V. Havryk, A. Hrynstein.
At the end of 1939, the Commission summed up the results and published "Ukrainian orthography" edited by Mykola Hrunskyi with a circulation of 350 copies.
After further consideration by the State Commission, the modified spelling was to be approved by government agencies and issued as mandatory for public use.
However, changes in the leadership of the People's Commissariat of Education and the beginning of World War II hampered formal procedures and the draft remained unapproved.