[1] Lidiia Dunayevska (maiden name - Govoretska) was born in 1948 in the village of Vorobiivka, Vinnytsia region, in a family of teachers.
[2] Her parents, Frantz Martynovych and Sofiia Yakivna Govorecki, were supporters of education and high spiritual culture.
While studying in high school, Dunayevska began to write poems, and published them in regional and Kyiv newspapers.
The evolution of epic traditions, for which she received the scientific degree of doctor of philological sciences in 1999, and the academic title of professor of the Department of Folklore in 2001.
She developed new courses such as "Ukrainian Mythology," "Customary Law," "World Epic," "Ethnopsychology," "Ethnopedagogy," "Folklore Teaching Methodology," "Folk Music," etc.
The main task of Dunayevska as a folklorist was to record samples of folk art and popularize them, which she did with her composing activity.
Dunayevska tried to find the brightest examples of fairy tales from the point of view of content, an artistic realization of an idea, and a compositional solution.
Dunayevska insisted on careful, minimal processing of grammatical forms and lexical material, providing dictionaries at the end of the collections.
For the best scientific research in folkloristics and philology, Dunayevska became a laureate of the Filaret Kolessa Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2001).