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The article is Andrii Savenets's polemic with Olia Hnatiuk concerning the Polish translation of Mykola Riabchuk's work "Od Małorosji do Ukrainy" (Kraków, 2002). The author emphasizes that his critique of the translation focused on the entrenchment, in Polish usage, of imperial (Russian and Polish) variants of names, in particular: Gogol – Гоголь (instead of Hohol, by analogy with Hruszewski – Грушевський); and the use of the preposition na instead of w in reference to Ukraine and Belarus. In conclusion, the author acknowledges that it is not possible for a few translators to change the established tradition of word usage in a language.