title: Ukrainian School of Planetary Polarimetry
abstract: &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Planetary community knows Ukraine as a country that has a prominent history of polarimetric studies of Solar system objects. Ukrainian planetary polarimetry has been counting since 1926 when academician M. Barabashov (Kharkiv) observed polarization of the Moon. It got a significant impetus in late 1950&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;th&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; since then concentrating in Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Crimea, and gradually moving its focus from polarimetric studies of Mars and Venus to comet