52 Notable alumni of
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is 1032nd in the world, 363rd in Europe, and 14th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 52 notable alumni from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Oksana Markarova
- Occupations
- diplomateconomistpolitician
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Oksana Serhiyivna Markarova is a Ukrainian politician and a former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States serving February 2021 through August 2025. Markarova is also a former Minister of Finance in the government of Volodymyr Groysman and Oleksiy Honcharuk.
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Maksym Berezovsky
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- court musiciancomposeropera singer
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Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky was a composer of secular and liturgical music, and a conductor and opera singer, who worked at the Saint Petersburg Court Chapel in the Russian Empire, but who also spent much of his career in Italy. He made an important contribution in the music of Ukraine. Together with Artemy Vedel and Dmitry Bortniansky, both of whom have cited him as an influence, Berezovsky is considered by musicologists as one of the three great composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music, and one of the Russian Empire's first composers.
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Dimitry of Rostov
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- Eastern Orthodox priestwritermonkhagiographercomposer
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Demetrius of Rostov was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Theophan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Cossack Baroque influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Kira Rudik
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- managerpolitician
- Biography
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Kira Oleksandrivna Rudik is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party. She is additionally the party's leader, and vice president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Prior to politics she worked in the Ukrainian and American IT industries. She was a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and the IT Association of Ukraine.
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Pavlo Teteria
- Years
- 1620-1670 (aged 50)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Pavlo Teteria was Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1663–1665). His real name was Pavlo Morzhkovsky. Before his hetmancy he served in a number of high positions under Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and Ivan Vyhovsky.
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Tymofiy Mylovanov
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- economist
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Tymofiy Mylovanov is a Ukrainian economist and former Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine in the government of Oleksiy Honcharuk. After his dismissal as government minister Mylovanov was appointed president of the Kyiv School of Economics
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Hanna Novosad
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- politiciancommunity leader
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Hanna Ihorivna Novosad is a Ukrainian educational activist, civil servant and politician. The Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine in the Honcharuk Government.
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Stefan Yavorsky
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- Eastern Orthodox priestpoettheologianmetropolitan
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Stefan Yavorsky, born Simeon Ivanovich Yavorsky (Russian: Симеон Иванович Яворский) (1658 – 8 December [O.S. 27 November] 1722), was an archbishop and statesman in the Russian Empire and the first president of the Most Holy Synod.
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Marcin Przydacz
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
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Marcin Paweł Przydacz is a Polish politician of Law and Justice who was elected member of the Sejm in 2023. From 2019 to 2023, he served as deputy minister of foreign affairs.
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Paisius Velichkovsky
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- monk
- Biography
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Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski was an Eastern Orthodox monk and theologian who helped spread staretsdom or the concept of the spiritual elder to the Slavic world. He is a pivotal figure in Orthodox Church history.
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Zoryana Skaletska
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- statesperson
- Biography
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Zoriana Stepanivna Skaletska is a Ukrainian lawyer, activist and politician and former Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine.
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Maria Berlinska
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- public figuremilitary personnelvolunteer
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Mariia Serhiivna Berlinska is a Ukrainian military volunteer and women's rights advocate. She was a participant in the Revolution of Dignity in February 2014 and subsequently volunteered for the war in Donbas as an aerial reconnaissance drone operator. Returning from the front, Berlinska founded a free school to train other Ukrainian military volunteers in aerial reconnaissance.
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Andriy Shevchenko
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- diplomatpoliticianjournalist
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Andriy Vitaliyovych Shevchenko was the Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada since September 2015 till August 2021. He is also a prominent Ukrainian journalist and civil activist and a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.
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Oksana Syroyid
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Oksana Ivanivna Syroyid is a Ukrainian politician and jurist. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. In December 2014, she became the first woman to serve as the deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament. Since October 2019 Syroyid is the party leader of Self Reliance.
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Halyna Yanchenko
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- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Halyna Ihorivna Yanchenko a Ukrainian anti-corruption activist, politician and People's Deputy of Ukraine. She was in elected to parliament in 2019 as number 5 of the election list of Servant of the People. She left the party in December 2022.
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Inna Sovsun
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- politician
- Biography
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Inna Romanivna Sovsun is a Ukrainian professor and politician. She served as Ukraine's deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016. On August 23, 2016, Sovsun resigned from her post following a controversy involving an order that would have reduced staffing levels of the Ministry of Education and Science by up to 10%. She served as vice-president of the Kyiv School of Economics from 2016 to 2018. She has also been a full professor of the department of political science National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", as well as co-founder and former director of the think tank CEDOS.
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Maksym Kozytskyi
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- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Maksym Zinoviyovych Kozytskyi is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, politician, and Governor of Lviv Regional State Administration as of 5 February 2020.
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Rostyslav Shurma
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- economist
- Biography
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Rostyslav Shurma is a Ukrainian statesman, former Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine from 23 November 2021 till 3 September 2024. He was the CEO of the Zaporizhstal plant from 2012 to 2019.
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Antin Holovaty
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- military personnelmusicianbandurist
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Antin Holovaty or Anton Golovaty (Russian: Антон Андреевич Головатый); between 1732 and 1744 – 28 January 1797 was a prominent Zaporozhian Cossack leader who after the Zaporozhian Sich's destruction was a key figure in the formation of the Black Sea Cossack Host and their later resettlement to the Kuban Region of Russia.
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Ihor Lutsenko
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Ihor Viktorovych Lutsenko is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.
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Hennadii Zubko
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- politician
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Hennadiy Hryhorovych Zubko is a Ukrainian politician. From 2 December 2014 until 29 August 2019, he was the Deputy Prime Minister — Minister for Regional Development, Construction and Housing, serving in the second Yatsenyuk Government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and in the Groysman Government of Volodymyr Groysman.
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Petro Prokopovych
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- military personnelbeekeeperinventor
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Petro Prokopovych was a Ukrainian beekeeper who made revolutionary contributions to the practice. They include the founding of commercial beekeeping and the invention of the first movable frame hive. He introduced novelties in traditional beekeeping that allowed great progress in the practice. Among his most important inventions was a hive frame in a separate honey chamber of his beehive. He also invented a crude queen excluder between brood and honey chambers. Petro Prokopovych was also the first to ever model a 'bee beard' after delineating and calculating 'bee swarm behaviour", inspiring students for generations.
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Nicodim Munteanu
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- translatorEastern Orthodox priest
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Nicodim, born Nicolae Munteanu ([nikoˈla.e munˈte̯anu]; 6 December 1864, Pipirig, Neamț County, Romania – 27 February 1948, Bucharest), was the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church (Patriarch of All Romania) between 1939 and 1948.
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Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni
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- Eastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni was a Romanian clergyman who served as Metropolitan of Moldavia (1792), Metropolitan of Kherson and Crimea (1793–1799), Metropolitan of Kiev and Halych (1799–1803), Exarch of Moldo-Wallachia (1806–1812), and Archbishop of Chișinău (1812–1821), being the first head of the church in Bessarabia after the Russian annexation.
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Oleksandra Ustinova
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- politician
- Biography
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Oleksandra Yuriivna Ustinova is a Ukrainian politician and public activist serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019. Prior to her election, she was an anti-corruption activist. Ustinova has been lobbying for military aid from the U.S. while being 37 weeks pregnant, explaining the urgency as the death toll in Ukraine rises, writes The Washington Post in March 2022.
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Innocent of Irkutsk
- Years
- 1682-1731 (aged 49)
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Innocent of Irkutsk was a missionary to Siberia and the first bishop of Irkutsk in Russia.
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Serhiy Berezenko
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- politician
- Biography
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Serhiy Ivanovych Berezenko is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 205th electoral district from 2015 until 2019. Prior to his election, he was head of the Ukrainian government agency the State Management of Affairs from June 2014 to August 2015.
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Yaroslav Yurchyshyn
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- social activistpolitician
- Biography
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Yaroslav Romanovych Yurchyshyn is a Ukrainian politician and anti-corruption activist currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019. Prior to his election, he was executive director of Transparency International Ukraine and a member of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
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Yaroslav Rushchyshyn
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2003-2005
- Occupations
- social activistentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Yaroslav Ivanovych Rushchyshyn was a Ukrainian businessman and politician who at the time of his death had been serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 117th electoral district since 29 August 2019. Earlier, he had been an active contributor to the local culture of the city of Lviv, and one of the student organisers of the 1990 Revolution on Granite.
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Andriy Bondar
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- opinion journalistwritercritictranslatorpoet
- Biography
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Andriy Volodymyrovych Bondar is a Ukrainian poet, interpreter, opinion writer and a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine in 1998. He is the husband of Ukrainian writer Sofia Andrukhovych.
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Sydir Bilyi
- Years
- 1716-1788 (aged 72)
- Biography
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Sidor Bely or Sydir Bily was Kosh ataman of the Black Sea Cossack Host.
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Andriy Smyrnov
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- In 2003 graduated with specialist degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Andriy Smyrnov is a Ukrainian statesman and jurist. He was the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine from September 2019 until March 2024.
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Jovan Rajić
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- playwrightpoetwritergeographerphilosopher
- Biography
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Jovan Rajić was a Serbian writer, historian, theologian, and pedagogue, considered one of the greatest Serbian academics of the 18th century.
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Yuriy Polyukhovych
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- diplomatmayanisthistorian
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Yuriy Yuriyovych Polyukhovych is a Ukrainian diplomat, historian and civil servant. Ukrainian Mayanist researcher, historian, public and political activist, PhD in History, acting Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine from 10 to 25 March 2020. Ambassador of Ukraine to Peru (since 23 December 2022), and to Colombia (since 20 June 2023) and Ecuador (since 5 July 2023) concurrently. Honorary Academician of the Latin American Academy of Military History (since 2024).
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Volodymyr Yermolenko
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2002
- Occupations
- opinion journalistessayistwriterphilosophertranslator
- Biography
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Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences: EHESS, Paris), candidate of philosophical sciences (Kyiv, 2009), and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize (2018) and of the Petro Mohyla Award (2021).
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Kateryna Kalytko
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- poetwritertranslator
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Kateryna Oleksandrivna Kalytko is a Ukrainian poet, writer and translator who is a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine since 2000 and PEN Ukraine. Her poetry is distinguished by intricate imagery, which frequently captures the associativeness of the poet and the tragedy of existence.
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Oleksiy Pavlenko
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Oleksiy Mykhaylovych Pavlenko is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who was Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food in the Yatsenyuk Government.
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Oleksandr Bondarenko
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Oleksandr Viktorovych Bondarenko is a Ukrainian economist, businessman. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Public Efficiency a chairman and founder of the Bureau of Investment Programs, the management company of the NOVO Industrial Parks.
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Sylvester Kossov
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- Eastern Orthodox priestwriter
- Biography
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Sylvester Kossów, Kosiv or Kosov was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1647 to 1657. He reigned during the Khmelnytsky uprising.
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Artem Chapeye
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- writertranslatorjournalist
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Artem Chapeye, the literary pseudonym of Anton Vasilyovich Vodyanyi (Ukrainian: Антон Васильович Водяний, born 2 December 1981), is a Ukrainian writer, reporter, translator, and activist. He writes creative nonfiction as well as literary fiction. Artem is a five-time finalist of the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award.
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Grigory Kozitsky
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- journalistwriter
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Grigory Vasilyevich Kozitsky was a Russian writer and journalist of Ukrainian origin, Cabinet Secretary of Catherine II (1768–1774), who helped her in the publication of the magazine Vsyakaya vsyachina.
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Oleksiy Movchan
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- community leaderpoliticianmanager
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Oleksiy Vasylovych Movchan is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 150th electoral district from Servant of the People since 2019.
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Kateryna Hornostai
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Kateryna Gornostai is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor. She is a jury member of the film festival Wiz-Art since 2014 and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy since 2017.
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Drozdovskyi Dmytro
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- literary critictranslatorediting staffliterary scholarjournalist
- Biography
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Dmytro Ihorovych Drozdovskyi is a Ukrainian scientist, literary critic, writer, editor, and translator. Since 2012, he has been working as managing editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian magazine of translations "Vsesvit". He is a PhD academic fellow of the Department of world literature of the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Drozdovskyi is a member of the Supreme Council of the Writer's Union of Ukraine. In 2013, he has competed his PhD dissertation "Reception of William Shakespeare in Ukrainian emigration literature process of 1940-1960-s". Drozdovskyi is a scholar whose academic goals are in the field of contemporary English and British literature, European studies, Shakespearean studies and cultural explanations of post-postmodernism which combines modern and postmodern aesthetics.
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Yulia Mykytenko
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- 2012-2016 studied philology
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Yulia Mykolaivna Mykytenko is a military servicewoman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, combatant of the Russo-Ukrainian War, recipient of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (3rd class) and the Order for Courage (3rd class), activist of the сivic movement "Vidsich" and of the NGO "Female veterans movement".
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Myroslav Laiuk
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- writerplaywrightpoetscreenwriter
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Myroslav Laiuk is a Ukrainian writer.
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Dzvinka Matiyash
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- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Dzvinka Matiyash is a Ukrainian prose writer, children's author, poet and translator.
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Mikhail Minakov
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- historianphilosopher
- Biography
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Mikhail Minakov is a philosopher, political scholar and historian (researcher of the history of modernity and post-Soviet ideologies), Doctor of Philosophy. His studies focus on human experience, social knowledge, the phenomenon of ideology, political creativity, and the history of modernization.
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Maksym Pashkovskyi
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Maksym Ihorovych Pashkovskyi is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 11th electoral district as a member of Servant of the People since 29 August 2019. He is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Transport and Infrastructure.
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Maryna Sokolyan
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Maryna Sokolyan is a Ukrainian author. The critical reviews define her work as "uncommon event in a contemporary fiction", and draw attention to the exquisite and well-cultivated language and to the complex intellectual references towards English literature. She was born 18 December 1979 in Poltava, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. In 2002 she graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with an MA in sociology.
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Tetiana Ostrikova
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Tetiana Heorhiyivna Ostrikova is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. She is a for member of parliament of Ukraine of the 8th convocation. Member of the parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. Member of the Intra-faction Deputies Union 'Deputy Control' and the Ukraine National Association of Lawyers.
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Tamara Martsenyuk
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Tamara Olehivna Martsenyuk is a Ukrainian sociologist and academic who specializes in gender studies.
