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The publication analyses the most important state-building processes in Kolomyia during the formation and existence of Western Ukrainian statehood in 1918-1919 (ZUNR-ZoUPR). At that time Kolomyia was one of the most important economic and political centres in Galicia. The city on the Prut was destined to play a significant role in the development of the political institutions of the newly created national state, and significant resources of the city were involved in the Ukrainian-Polish war that began immediately after the proclamation of the ZUNR. Although the hostilities exacerbated the Ukrainian-Polish antagonism in the city, communication between the two ethnic groups took place within the legal framework and with a relatively tolerant attitude towards each other. Local government, public institutions, volunteer movement, theatre, and educational institutions were actively developing. Kolomyia acquired the features of a Ukrainian city, and its Ukrainian identity was formed, which still influences the lives of Kolomyia's inhabitants.

The material is structured according to the chronological and thematic principle, in particular, the social, political, ethnic, cultural, and military aspects of the history of Kolomyia, which for the first time in many centuries of foreign rule began to create its own Ukrainian life.