Vikentiy Viacheslavovych Khvoyka (Ukrainian: Вікентій В'ячеславович Хвойка; Russian: Викентий Вячеславович Хвойка; Czech: Vincenc Častoslav Chvojka; born Čeněk Chvojka; 1850–1914) was an archaeologist who discovered the Neolithic Trypillia culture of Ukraine.
[1] Khvoyka was born on 21 February 1850 in the village of Semín in the Kingdom of Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire).
After graduating from the Academy of Commerce in Chrudim, he lived in Prague for a time before emigrating to the Russian Empire.
[1] In 1962, Novokyrylivska Street [uk] in Kyiv, where Khvoyka lived from 1898 to his death in 1914, was renamed in his honour, and a memorial plaque was installed there.
[1] In 2000, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative two hryvnia coin to mark the 150th anniversary of Khvoyka's birth.