The historical community of Albanians in Ukraine call themselves ga tantë (from ours) and they speak a language si neve (like us) [REF].
The first who studied the Albanians in Ukraine since 1914 was a Soviet philologist (Slavic studies) and historian Nikolai Derzhavin[REF] who born on the territory of modern Zaporizhia Oblast (at the time Taurida Governorate).