The article aims at investigating the way the idea of Ukraine unification was reflected in the newspaper “Bukovyna”. One of the main results of the research is that in difficult socio-political conditions of Bukovyna, when it was under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, “Bukovyna” embodied in life their program, conducted a kind of preparatory work so that in the future Bukovyna might become a part of one big country – Ukraine. Many published materials worked for the national idea. "Bukovyna” united Bukovynian people with Naddnipryanshchyna with the help of informational, cultural and artistic articles about prominent figures of Ukrainian culture. The newspaper popularized the unificational ideas of writers from Bukovyna; editorial continuously informed about new books, periodicals in Kiev, Lviv. The attention is drawn to the analysis of the structure and the semantic content, problem-thematic and genre content. Thus the role of «Bukovyna» (1885-1888) editor Yurij Fedkovych is determined.