48 Notable alumni of
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is 1068th in the world, 369th in Europe, and 15th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 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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Maksym Berezovsky
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- composeropera 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 St. 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, Berezovsky is considered by musicologists as one of the "Golden Three" composers of 18th century Ukrainian classical music, and one of Russia's greatest choral composers.
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Oksana Markarova
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- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
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Oksana Serhiyivna Markarova is a Ukrainian politician and the current Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States since February 2021. Markarova is also a former Minister of Finance in the government of Volodymyr Groysman and Oleksiy Honcharuk. In 2001, she completed a master's degree in Public Finance and Trade at Indiana University.
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Dimitry of Rostov
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- writerEastern Orthodox priestcomposerhagiographermonk
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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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Pavlo Teteria
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- 1620-1670 (aged 50)
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Pavlo Teteria was Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1663–1665). His real name is Pavlo Morzhkovsky. Before his hetmancy he served in a number of high positions under Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and Ivan Vyhovsky.
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Hanna Novosad
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- community leaderpolitician
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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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Kira Rudik
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- politicianmanager
- 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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Tymofiy Mylovanov
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- economist
- Biography
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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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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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Stefan Yavorsky
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priest
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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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Andriy Shevchenko
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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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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- politicianlawyer
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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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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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Halyna Yanchenko
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- politiciansociologist
- 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 9 of the election list of Servant of the People. She left the party in December 2022.
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Hennadiy Zubko
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- politician
- Biography
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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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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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Antin Holovaty
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- musicianmilitary personnel
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Antin Holovaty or Anton Golovaty (Russian: Антон Андреевич Головатый); between 1732 and 1744 – January 28, 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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- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Ihor Viktorovych Lutsenko is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.
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Maksym Kozytskyi
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- politicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Maksym Zinoviyovych Kozytskyy is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, politician, and Governor of Lviv Regional State Administration as of 5 February 2020.
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Petro Prokopovych
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- beekeepermilitary personnel
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Petro Prokopovych was a Ukrainian revolutionary, beekeeper, the founder of commercial beekeeping and the inventor 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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Serhiy Berezenko
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- politician
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Serhiy Berezenko is a Ukrainian politician, Ex-head of the State Management of Affairs (from June 2014 to August 2015), and an 8th Verkhovna Rada MP.
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Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni
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- 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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Nicodim Munteanu
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- priesttranslator
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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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Innocent of Irkutsk
- Years
- 1682-1731 (aged 49)
- Occupations
- 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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Oleksandra Ustinova
- Occupations
- 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.
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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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Yaroslav Yurchyshyn
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- politiciansocial activist
- 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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Oleksiy Pavlenko
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- economistpolitician
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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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Jovan Rajić
- Occupations
- geographerwriterpoetplaywrighthistorian
- 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. He was one of the most notable representatives of Serbian Baroque literature along with Zaharije Orfelin, Pavle Julinac, Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš, Simeon Končarević, Simeon Piščević, and others (although he worked in the first half of 18th century, as Baroque trends in Serbian literature emerged in the late 17th century).
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Oleksandr Bondarenko
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Oleksandr Bondarenko is a Ukrainian politician, economist, businessman and former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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Andriy Smyrnov
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- In 2003 graduated with specialist degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Andriy Smyrnov is a Ukrainian statesman and jurist. He is currently the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. In 2019, Smyrnov together with Hennadiy Korban threatened Ukrainian activist Roman Ratushnyi (who died in 2022 in battles with the Russian occupiers) so that Roman would stop protecting the Protasiv Yar tract in Kyiv, where Korban's company planned to build a high-rise residential complex.
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Yurii Polyukhovych
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- historian
- Biography
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Yuriy Yuriyovych Polyukhovych is a Ukrainian historian and civil servant.
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Tetiana Ostrikova
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- politicianlawyer
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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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Kateryna Kalytko
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoet
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Kateryna Oleksandrivna Kalytko is a Ukrainian writer and translator. She won the 2017 Joseph Conrad Literature Prize.
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Grigory Kozitsky
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- journalist
- Biography
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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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Yaroslav Rushchyshyn
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- politicianentrepreneursocial activist
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Yaroslav Ivanovych Rushchyshyn is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 117th electoral district since 29 August 2019. Beforehand, he was 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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Sylvester Kossov
- Occupations
- 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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Volodymyr Yermolenko
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2002
- Occupations
- writeressayistopinion journalisttranslatorphilosopher
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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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Anna Zamazeeva
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Anna Zamazeeva is a Ukrainian politician and stateswoman. Head of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine (SAEE). Former Head of the Mykolaiv Oblast Council from December 9, 2020, to March 10, 2023. Member of the Coordination Headquarters on Treatment of Prisoners of War.
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Drozdovskyi Dmytro
- Enrolled in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- editing stafftranslatorliterary criticman of lettersjournalist
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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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Artem Chapeye
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- writerjournalist
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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 popular fiction. Artem is a four-time finalist of the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award.
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Kateryna Gornostay
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- screenwriterfilm director
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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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Dzvinka Matiyash
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- writertranslator
- 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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- philosopherhistorian
- 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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Myroslav Laiuk
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- poetplaywrightwriterscreenwriter
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Myroslav Laiuk is a Ukrainian writer.
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Oleksiy Movchan
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- managerpoliticiancommunity leader
- Biography
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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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Maksym Pashkovsky
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- politicianbusinessperson
- 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
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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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Tamara Martsenyuk
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Tamara Olehivna Martsenyuk is a Ukrainian sociologist and academic who specializes in gender studies.
