Persons

Historical figures mentioned in the encyclopedia

• Anatoliy Podolsky Candidate of Historical Sciences, director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences, founder and director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies; researches the history of Ukraine's Jews, the Holocaust, and Ukrainian–Jewish relations

• Andriy Grechylo Doctor of Historical Sciences, head of the Ukrainian Heraldry Society 1963

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, a leading specialist in heraldry, vexillology, and emblematics; co-founder and head of the Ukrainian Heraldry Society, member of the International Academy of Heraldry

• Antony Beevor Historian 1946

  British military historian, author of books on the Battle of Stalingrad, the Normandy landings, and the Second World War

• Arsen Zinchenko Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, historian of the church 1948

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and scholar of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivskyi

• Bohdan Paska Candidate of Historical Sciences, researcher of the dissident movement

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences; researches the Ukrainian dissident movement and the figure of Valentyn Moroz

• Boris Rybakov Historian 1908–2001

  A classic Soviet historian and archaeologist, author of foundational works on Rus' and Slavic antiquity

• Carl Gustaf Mannerheim Military 1867–1951

  Marshal of Finland, military and statesman, commander of the Finnish armed forces during the Second World War

• Hennadiy Yefimenko Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior research fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior research fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; specialist in Bolshevik nationality policy in Ukraine in the 1919–1930s

• Igor Danilevsky Historian

  Russian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at the Higher School of Economics, specialist in the history of Rus' and the 'Tale of Bygone Years'

• Ihor Raikivsky Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University; researches Ukrainian nation-building in the 19th century, the idea of unity (sobornist), and the national movement in Galicia

• Ihor Shchupak Candidate of Historical Sciences, director of the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences, director of the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and the 'Memory of the Jewish People and the Holocaust in Ukraine' museum (Dnipro)

• Ihor Stambol Candidate of Historical Sciences, historian of the Ukrainian national movement

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences; researches the Ukrainian national movement, biographical studies, and the activity of the Prosvita society

• Iryna Petrenko Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at the Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor; head of the Department of World History and Teaching Methodology at the Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University; researches women's history and everyday life

• Lado Khvedelidze Doctor of Historical Sciences, historian (France)

  Georgian–French historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences; researched the populist and revolutionary movement of the Russian Empire, taught at universities in France and Switzerland (the Sorbonne, Geneva, Franche-Comté)

• Larysa Semenko Local-history scholar, Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore

  Ukrainian historian and local-history scholar from Vinnytsia; author of the monograph 'Our Quiet Genius Leontovych,' a researcher of the composer's life and murder

• Larysa Yakubova Member of the NAS of Ukraine, director of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine; researches nationality policy, totalitarianism, and korenization

• Lyudmyla Turchyna Candidate of Historical Sciences, researcher of the era of the Executed Renaissance

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences; researches the era of the Executed Renaissance and the figure of Mykola Khvylovy

• Natalya Starchenko Doctor of Historical Sciences, researcher of the early modern history of Ukraine

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, researcher of early modern Ukraine and the noble culture of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Volhynia, the Bratslav and Kyiv regions of the 16th–17th centuries)

• Oleh Odnorozhenko Doctor of Historical Sciences, historian and heraldist

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, specialist in heraldry, sphragistics, and genealogy; researches the family and territorial heraldry of Ukraine

• Oleksandr Gogun Historian, researcher of the Second World War and the Soviet regime 1980

  Historian of the Second World War, researcher of Soviet policy, repression, and the Ukrainian insurgent movement; doctoral candidate at Humboldt University of Berlin

• Oleksandr Zaitsev Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University; a leading researcher of Ukrainian integral nationalism, the ideology of Dmytro Dontsov, and the OUN

• Oleksiy Tolochko Historian

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, specialist in medieval Rus'

• Olha Maklyuk Historian, researcher of historical memory and media

  Ukrainian historian; researches historical trauma and historical memory, media studies, and the phenomenon of post-truth

• Roman Ofitsynskyi Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at Uzhhorod National University

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at Uzhhorod National University; researches the history of Transcarpathia and Carpatho-Ukraine in the 20th century

• Ruslan Siromsky Doctor of Historical Sciences, dean of the Faculty of History at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv 1979

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, dean of the Faculty of History at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; researches the Cold War, human rights in the Ukrainian SSR, and the history of the Ukrainian diaspora

• Serhiy Gromenko Candidate of Historical Sciences, columnist 1985

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences, specialist in the history of Crimea and Russian historical myths; co-author of school history textbooks of Ukraine

• Svitlana Vizer Historian of the church, M. Drahomanov Ukrainian State University

  Ukrainian historian; researches the history of the church in the 15th–17th centuries and the role of the Orthodox and Uniate churches in the national liberation movement

• Vasyl Lypkivskyi First metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 1864–1937

  Ukrainian church leader, theologian, and historian; the first metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church from 1921 to 1927

• Vasyl Pavlov Military historian

  Ukrainian military historian; researches military history and the instrumentalization of military history in Russian propaganda

• Viktor Horobets Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor (Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine)

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor; a leading specialist in the history of the Hetmanate and the Cossack era at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine

• Vitaliy Dribnytsya Historian, author of the 'Vox Veritatis' channel 1965

  Ukrainian historian, author and host of the YouTube channel 'Vox Veritatis' — video debates offering a critical analysis of Russian historical propaganda

• Vitaliy Mykhailovsky Doctor of Historical Sciences, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University

  Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, researcher of Podillia and the Ruthenian lands of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th–16th centuries; specialist in historical geography and parliamentarism

• Yana Prymachenko Candidate of Historical Sciences (Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine)

  Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior research fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine; researches historical memory, the Second World War, and Russian historical narratives