[3] From the 1880s onwards she took part in excavations in Podolia, Volhynia, the Zaporizhia region and Sloboda Ukraine and developed into an expert on the Paleo and Neolithic periods, but also studied Scythian and Cimmerian sites.

Study trips took her to Galicia, Austria, Hungary and several times to Italy and Sicily.

[citation needed] At the turn of the century the Cultural and Historical Museum, Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Shevchenko Scientific Society took an interest in the history and the archaeology of Ukraine.

Leading archaeological experts in this work were Bohdan Janush, Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk and Volodymyr Antonovych, Yurii Poliansky, Yosyp Pelensky, Yaroslav Pasternak, Yukhym Sitsinsky and Oleksander Tsynkalovsky.

[2] From 1919 she worked for the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, where she headed the library department in the 1920s, but she was removed from her position in 1930 because of her politics.