The article presents a reconstruction – on a material of 394 surveys – of modern stereotypes of a Pole/Ukrainian among the students of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz. An analysis of several points of more extensive questionnaire was proposed, namely: a request to provide a definition of a Pole/Ukrainian; expressions with the same reference as the Pole/Ukrainian; features of a “typical” and “real” Pole/Ukrainian. In student definitions of the name Pole/Ukrainian, geographical, ethnic, nationality categorization is more often used, while linguistic, ethical, and identity are used less often. The students consider lexeme Polachek, compatriot, countryman, ours, theirs and others, as equivalents of the word Pole and they give...