Robert Bohdan Klymasz (born May 14, 1936, Toronto, Canada and died March 17, 2024, Winnipeg) was a Ukrainian-Canadian folklorist.
During the 1950s, at the suggestion of Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, Klymasz undertook a research trip to communist Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, specifically western Ukraine, to expand his knowledge of Slavonic studies and do first-hand work in the field.
Most of these materials are today preserved in archives in Edmonton, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba and remain valuable resources for contemporary folklorists.
Klymasz's major published works consist of studies in Slavic-Canadian onomastics, and Ukrainian-Canadian folklore, including the groundbreaking Introduction to the Ukrainian-Canadian Immigrant Folksong Cycle (1970), The Ukrainian Winter Folksong Cycle in Canada (1970), and the comprehensive Ukrainian Folklore in Canada (1980).
His other contributions to scholarship include studies of subjects as varied as ethnic jokes, Ukrainian-Canadian pictorial art and icons, stories, and various musical genres.