Lisek A., Rozpara E., Głowacka A., Kucharska D., Zawadzka M. (2015): Identification of S-genotypes of sweet cherry cultivars from Central and Eastern Europe. Hort. Sci. (Prague), 42: 13-21.Sweet cherry is a species that is characterized by self-incompatibility, which causes difficulties in obtaining high yields of sweet cherry fruit. Determination of the composition of the S-alleles of sweet cherry cultivars is useful both to growers producing the fruit and breeders when selecting cultivars for cross-fertilizations. In this work, S-alleles have been identified for 47 sweet cherry cultivars from Central and Eastern Europe, mostly from Ukraine and the Czech Republic, with S-genotypes of 43 cultivars identified for the first time. To identify the S-alleles, PCR-based methods were used. In each cultivar, two of the following eight S-alleles were identified: S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 , S 5 , S 6 , S 9 and S 13 . In the cultivars from the Czech Republic, the most frequently occurring were the alleles S 3 , S 1 and S 4 . In the cultivars originating in Ukraine, the most frequently found were the alleles S 5 and S 9 , which makes them differ considerably from the sweet cherry cultivars from other regions of Europe. The tested sweet cherry cultivars were assigned to 20 of the existing incompatibility groups.