100 Notable alumni of
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is 88th in the world, 28th in Europe, and 1st in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Wladimir Klitschko
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- In 2001 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in sports science
- Occupations
- international forum participantboxerathletemayor
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Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017. He held the world heavyweight championship twice, including the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, and Ring magazine titles. A strategic and intelligent boxer, Klitschko is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time. He was known for his exceptional knockout power, using a strong jab, straight right hand and left hook, quick hand speed, great physical strength which he employed when clinching opponents, as well as athletic footwork and mobility, unusual for boxers of his size.
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Vitali Klitschko
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- politiciankickboxer
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Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko, known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv, and is also head of the Kyiv City State Administration, having held both offices since June 2014. Klitschko is a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and is a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament. He became actively involved in Ukrainian politics in 2005 and combined this with his professional boxing career until his retirement from the sport in 2013. He holds a Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) from Kyiv University's Physical Science Department.
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1937-1945
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- military personnelhistoriansniper
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Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is credited with killing 309 enemy combatants. She served in the Red Army during the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol, during the early stages of the fighting on the Eastern Front. Her score of 309 kills likely places her within the top five snipers of all time, but her kills may be significantly more numerous, as a confirmed kill has to be witnessed by a third party.
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Viktor Medvedchuk
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- politicianbusinesspersonjurist
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Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk is a former Ukrainian lawyer, business oligarch, and politician who has lived in exile in Russia since September 2022 after being handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange. Medvedchuk is a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician and a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Leonid Kravchuk
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1958
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed the Lisbon Protocol, undertaking to give up Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. He was also the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and a People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) faction.
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Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
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- university teacherwriterhistorianpoliticianliterary historian
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Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century. Hrushevsky is often considered the country's greatest modern historian, the foremost organiser of scholarship, the leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, the head of the Central Rada (Ukraine's 1917–1918 revolutionary parliament), and a leading cultural figure in the Ukrainian SSR during the 1920s.
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Irina Kupchenko
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1965-1966
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Irina Petrovna Kupchenko is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She rose to prominence after acting in Andrei Konchalovsky's 1969 movie adaptation of A Nest of Gentry. She has performed in more than forty films since 1969.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
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- theologianuniversity teacheropinion journalistphilosopher
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person. Alternative historical spellings of his surname in English include "Berdiaev" and "Berdiaeff", and of his given name "Nicolas" and "Nicholas". Russian paleontologist and Christian apologist Alexander V. Khramov (Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. from Moscow University) attributes his ideas about an atemporal human fall to Berdyaev and Evgenii Nikolaevitch Troubetzkoy.
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Andrii Yermak
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- film producerpoliticianjurist
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Andriy Borysovych Yermak is a Ukrainian film producer who was appointed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to serve as the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine from 11 February 2020. Yermak is also a member of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the highest command and control body for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was described as Zelensky’s right-hand man, and a "real power broker" of Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko
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- writerpoliticianscreenwriterplaywrightscience fiction writer
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Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright and artist who served as the first prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
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Luka (Voyno-Yasenetsky)
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- priestuniversity teachersurgeon
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Luke of Simferopol, also known as Saint Luke the Blessed Surgeon, born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky was a Russian surgeon, the founder of purulent surgery, a spiritual writer, a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, and archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea from May 1946. He was a laureate of the Stalin Prize in medicine in 1946.
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Andrey Vyshinsky
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- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
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Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.
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Viacheslav Chornovil
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- journalistpoliticianhuman rights activist
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Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s for his political views. From 1992 onwards, Chornovil was one of the leaders of Rukh, the People's Movement of Ukraine, which was the first opposition party in democratic Ukraine, and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Chas-Time (Chas) from 1995. One of the most prominent political figures of the 1980s and 1990s, Chornovil paved the way for contemporary Ukraine to regain its independence.
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Vasyl Symonenko
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- poetjournalist
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Vasyl Andriiovych Symonenko was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s. In the opinion of the Museum of the Dissident Movement in Kyiv, the works and early death of Vasyl Symonenko had an enormous impact on the rise of the national democratic movement in Ukraine.
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Kateryna Osadcha
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- fashion modelmodeltelevision journalistpresenterjournalist
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Kateryna Osadcha is a Ukrainian journalist, host of the programs "Social Life", "The Voice of Ukraine" (1–3, 6–8 seasons) and "The Voice Kids" on the TV channel "1+1".
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Oles Buzina
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- writerpresenteropinion journalisttelevision presenterjournalist
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Oles Oleksiiovych Buzina was a Ukrainian journalist and writer known for his criticism of Ukrainian politics and for the support of closer ties of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
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Irina Berezhna
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- entrepreneurpoliticianlegal scholarradio personalityjurist
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Irina Berezhna was a Ukrainian politician who represented the Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada, while serving as a People's Deputy from 2007 to 2014.
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Nina Matviienko
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- actorsinger
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Nina Mytrofanivna Matviienko was a Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine.
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Ihor Smeshko
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- politicianstatesperson
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Colonel General Ihor Petrovych Smeshko served as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) from 2003 to 2005, where he supported the opposition during the Orange Revolution. In 2010, he entered politics with the Strength and Honor party, which he formed with several former security and intelligence officials. He was chairman of the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine (from October 7, 2014, to March 12, 2015).
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1905-1906
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- Jewish communities scholarhistorianwriterpolitician
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, ethnologist, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving President of Israel.
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
- Years
- 1894-1980 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- essayistscreenwriterpoettranslatormusicologist
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Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz Polish pronunciation: [jar'ɔswav l'ɛɔn ivaʂkʲ'ɛvʲit͡ʂ]; also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter, was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator. He is recognized for his literary achievements, beginning with poetry and prose written after World War I. After 1989, he was often presented as a political opportunist during his mature years lived in communist Poland, where he held high offices (participated in the slander of Polish expatriates, literary and other figures who after World War II remained in the West). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. In 1988, he was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations for his role in sheltering Jews during World War II.
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Julia Sanina
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- singeractorcomposer
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Yuliia Oleksandrivna Bebko, professionally known as Julia Sanina (Юлія Саніна [ˈjul⁽ʲ⁾ijɐ ˈsɑn⁽ʲ⁾inɐ]), is a Ukrainian singer and the front woman of the Ukrainian alternative rock band The Hardkiss.
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Mykola Lysenko
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- classical composercomposerconductormusic teacherethnomusicologist
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Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival, in the vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia as well as Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic.
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Ostap Vyshnya
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- 1889-1956 (aged 67)
- Occupations
- writer
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Pavlo Mykhailovych Hubenko, better known by the literary psuedonym of Ostap Vyshnia, was a Ukrainian writer, humourist, satirist, and medical official (feldsher). Nicknamed by critics as the Ukrainian Mark Twain and the Ukrainian Printing King; His fame was said to have competed in early Soviet Ukraine with only Taras Shevchenko and Vladimir Lenin.
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Moisei Uritsky
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- politician
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Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was the chief of the Cheka secret police of the Petrograd Soviet. Uritsky was assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser, a military cadet, who was executed shortly afterwards.
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Dmytro Korchynsky
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- poettelevision presenterjournalistpoliticianpresenter
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Dmytro Oleksandrovych Korchynsky is a Ukrainian writer, poet, militant, and political activist who is the former leader of nationalist Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence (UNA-UNSO) organisation.
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Maksym Rylsky
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- poettranslatorwriterpolitician
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Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky; 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1895 in Kyiv – 24 July 1964 id.) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, academician, and doctor of philological sciences.
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Otto Schmidt
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- travelermathematicianphysiciststatespersonpsychoanalyst
- Biography
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Otto Yulyevich Shmidt, better known as Otto Schmidt, was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, and academician.
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Oksana Shachko
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- painterwomen's rights activist
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Oksana Shachko was a Ukrainian artist and activist. Along with Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko, she was one of the founders of the radical feminist activist group Femen, which publicly demonstrates in various countries against sexual exploitation, income inequality, and policies of the Roman Catholic Church, among other causes.
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Bolesław Leśmian
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- poet lawyerwriter
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Bolesław Leśmian was a Polish poet, artist, and member of the Polish Academy of Literature, one of the first poets to introduce Symbolism and Expressionism to Polish verse.
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Maryna Viazovska
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- university teachermathematician
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Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is a full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. She was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.
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Uladzimir Karatkievich
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- teacherplaywrightwriterprose writertranslator
- Biography
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Uladzimir Karatkievich was a Belarusian romantic writer.
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1917-1921
- Occupations
- evolutionary biologistwriteruniversity teacherbiologistentomologist
- Biography
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Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky was an American geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis. Born in the Russian Empire, Dobzhansky emigrated to the United States in 1927, aged 27.
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Yevgeny Vodolazkin
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1986
- Occupations
- historianwriterman of lettersliterary criticliterary scholar
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Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin is a Russian-Ukrainian scholar and author. Born in Kiev in 1964, he graduated from the Philological Department of Kiev University in 1986. In the same year, he entered graduate school at the Pushkin House in the department of Old Russian literature under Dmitry Likhachov. In 1990, he defended his graduate thesis 'On the Translation of the "Chronicle of George Hamartolos"'.
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Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
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- journalistwriterscreenwriter
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Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz was a Polish writer, journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels. One of his best known works, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Polish: Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy, 1932). Literary historians believe the book inspired the 1971 novel Being There by Jerzy Kosiński, with some charging Kosiński with plagiarism, which sparked considerable controversy in the West.
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Mykhailo Drahomanov
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- professorhistoriancollector of fairy talesanthropologistphilosopher
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Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov was a Ukrainian intellectual and public figure. As an academic, Drahomanov was an economist, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer, while as a public intellectual he was a political theorist with socialist leanings, perhaps best known as one of the first proponents of Ukrainian autonomism. For Drahomanov, ethnographic studies had a deep influence on his political ideas, and his politics in turn motivated study of particular areas of Ukrainian folk literature.
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Vasily Shulgin
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- public figurepoliticianopinion journalist
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Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin, also known as Basil Shulgin, was a Russian conservative politician, monarchist and member of the White movement.
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Mykola Mikhnovsky
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- historianlawyerpoliticianopinion journalistjurist
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Mykola Ivanovych Mikhnovsky was a Ukrainian independence activist, lawyer and journalist who was one of the early leaders of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mikhnovsky was the author of the pamphlet Independent Ukraine, one of the organisers of the Ukrainian People's Army, and co-founder of the first political party in eastern Ukraine, the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, as well as the co-founder and leader of various other parties, including the Ukrainian People's Party, the Ukrainian Democratic Party, and the Brotherhood for Self-Determination.
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Ivan Drach
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- prose writertranslatorliterary criticplaywrightscreenwriter
- Biography
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Ivan Fedorovych Drach was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist.
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Oksana Zabuzhko
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- writeressayistliterary criticpoetphilosopher
- Biography
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Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. Her works have been translated into several languages.
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Maironis
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- translatorwriteruniversity teachertheologianliterary scholar
- Biography
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Maironis was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and the greatest and most-known Lithuanian poet, especially of the period of the Lithuanian press ban. He was called the Bard of Lithuanian National Revival (Tautinio atgimimo dainius). Maironis was active in public life. However, the Lithuanian literary historian Juozas Brazaitis writes that Maironis was not.
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Volodymyr Lytvyn
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- historianpoliticianfaculty member
- Biography
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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously served in that position from 2002 until 2006, he was re-elected in December 2008 after his party agreed to join the former coalition of Yulia Tymoshenko in an expanded capacity and stayed Chairman until December 2012. From 1994 to 1999, Lytvyn was the aide to President Leonid Kuchma and, later, the head of his office.
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Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov
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- physicistinventorpolitician
- Biography
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Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov was a Soviet physicist who played a crucial and centralizing role in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
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Mykhailo Starytskyi
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- prose writerdirectorpoetlibrettistactor
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Mykhailo Petrovych Starytsky, in English Michael Starycky, was a Ukrainian writer, poet, and playwright.
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Iryna Herashchenko
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- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from European Solidarity. She is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine since 2000. Former First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), also serving as President's Humanitarian Envoy at the Minsk peace talks regarding the war in Donbas.
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Diana Panchenko
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 2018
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Diana Vitalievna Panchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and TV presenter.
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Valentyn Nalyvaichenko
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Valentyn Oleksandrovych Nalyvaichenko is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician.
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Volodymyr Antonovych
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- historianethnologist
- Biography
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Volodymyr Antonovych was a prominent Ukrainian historian, archivist and archaeologist, who was known as one of the most prominent figures of the Ukrainian national revival movement in the Russian Empire. Antonovych was a longtime Professor of Russian history at Saint Vladimir Imperial University of Kiev and a correspondent-member of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences. His main work was an edition of the eight-section Archives of South-Western Russia.
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Serhi Leshchenko
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- journalistpoliticianactivist
- Biography
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Serhiy Leshchenko is a Ukrainian ex-journalist, politician and public figure, Member of Parliament (8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada). From 2002 until 2014 Leshchenko was working as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief and as a special correspondent for Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper.
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Inna Shevchenko
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 2012
- Occupations
- women's rights activistpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Inna Shevchenko is a Ukrainian feminist activist and the leader of international women's movement FEMEN, which often demonstrates topless against what they perceive as manifestations of patriarchy, especially dictatorship, religion, and the sex industry. Shevchenko has a higher profile than the other members of the group. She was the leader of the three FEMEN activists reputedly kidnapped and threatened by the Belarus KGB in 2011. She achieved attention in Ukraine by cutting with a chainsaw and then bringing down a 4-metre high Christian cross in central Kyiv in 2012.
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Anna Hutsol
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- human rights activisteconomist
- Biography
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Anna Hutsol is a Ukrainian activist and one of the founders of the radical feminist activist group FEMEN.
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Oleksandr Tkachenko
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- journalistmanufacturermedia managerpolitician
- Biography
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Oleksandr Vladyslavovych Tkachenko is a Ukrainian journalist, CEO, and politician. He served as Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Information Policy from 4 June 2020 to 27 July 2023.
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Vladimir Pastukhov
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- political scientistlawyer
- Biography
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Vladimir Borisovitch Pastukhov is a Russian political scientist, lawyer (advocate) and honorary senior research associate of the University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is an author of the so-called "constitution by concepts", which is a written code of unwritten rules that define the real substance of life in Russia.
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Olena Zerkal
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Olena Volodymyrivna Zerkal, widely known as Lana Zerkal, is a Ukrainian diplomat. Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for the European Integration, appointed in office in 2014. She also served for 12 years at the Ministry of Justice (Ukraine) since 2001 as the Director of the Department of International Law (2001 – 2005), Director of the State Department on Approximation of Legislation (2005 – 2011) and as the Director of the Department on Liaison with State Authorities (2011 – 2013).
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Andrii Malyshko
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- journalistpoetliterary critictranslator
- Biography
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Andriy Samiylovych Malyshko was a Soviet and Ukrainian poet, translator and singer. Many of his poems were made into songs for example: Рідна мати моя - При ватрі.
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Yelyzaveta Yasko
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 2012
- Occupations
- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Yelyzaveta Oleksiyivna Yasko is a Ukrainian politician, cultural affairs expert and film producer.
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Yevgeny Tarle
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- historianuniversity teacheracademic
- Biography
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Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle was a Ukrainian and Soviet historian and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known for his books about Napoleon's invasion of Russia and on the Crimean War, as well as many other works. Yevgeny Tarle was one of the founders of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia's diplomatic university.
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Yuriy Bereza
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yuriy Mykolayovych Bereza is a Ukrainian politician and the commander of the Dnipro Battalion. Representing People's Front, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bereza was not re-elected. As an independent candidate in constituency 24 (in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) he gained 7.55% of the vote and lost the election to Dmytro Kysylevskyi of the party Servant of the People (who won with 59.36% of the votes)
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Yan Gamarnik
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- statespersonmilitary personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Yan Gamarnik (birth name Jakov Tzudikovich Gamarnik (Russian: Я́ков Цу́дикович Гама́рник), sometimes known as Yakov Gamarnik (Russian: Я́ков Гама́рник; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1894 – 31 May 1937), was the Chief of the Political Department of the Red Army from 1930 to 1937, Deputy Commissar of Defense 1930—1934 and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia 1928–1930.
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Nikolai Bogolyubov
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- non-fiction writertheoretical physicistpoliticianinventoracademic
- Biography
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov, also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical systems; he was the recipient of the 1992 Dirac Medal.
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Mikhail Tereshchenko
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- sugar refinerentrepreneurbankerart collectorpolitician
- Biography
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Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko was the foreign minister of Russia from 18 May 1917 to 7 November 1917 (N.S.). He was also a major Ukrainian landowner, the proprietor of several sugar factories, and a financier.
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Ihor Yeremeyev
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ihor Myronovych Yeremeyev was a Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th, 7th and 8th convocation (non-partisan, Chairman of the Deputy Group "People's Will"). He was a co-owner of a Ukrainian fuel station network WOG.
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Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1905
- Occupations
- playwrightpoliticianpoet
- Biography
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Vincas Mickevičius, better known by his pen name Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian writer, poet, novelist, playwright and philologist. He is also known as Vincas Krėvė, the shortened name he used in the United States.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk
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- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Dmytro Volodymyrovych Tabachnyk is a Ukrainian and Russian politician who served as the minister of education and science of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. Tabachnyk is among former Ukrainian officials who have had their assets frozen by EU and is wanted in Ukraine for embezzlement and abuse of office. As a fugitive, he was believed to be in Israel and Crimea.
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Serhiy Yefremov
- Years
- 1876-1939 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- journalistliterary critichistoriandiplomat
- Biography
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Serhiy Yefremov was a Ukrainian literary journalist, historian, critic, political activist, statesman, and academician. He was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Science (1919) and Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. Yefremov is his literary pseudonym; his real name is Okhrimenko.
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Danylo Hetmantsev
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- politicianjuristscientist
- Biography
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Danylo Oleksandrovych Hetmantsev is a Ukrainian pro-Russian politician, lawyer and scientist. He was an assistant to Volodymyr Sivkovych, a member of Parliament of Ukraine from the pro-Russian Party of Regions, who is suspected of treason for creating a network of Russian agents in Ukraine. Since 2019, he has been a Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party. He is the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy. He is listed in the database of the Myrotvorets. He is a Doctor of Law, professor.
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Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovskyi is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 2010 to 2012 and as Minister of Finance and First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine briefly in 2012. According to Ukrainian and East European media Khoroshkovskyi is one of Ukraine's richest people.
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Roman Skrypin
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- television presenterjournalisttelevision producer
- Biography
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Román Skrýpin is a Ukrainian media manager, journalist, television host, a chief of the Ukrainian independent media union.
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Jan Tabachnyk
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 2011
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Petrovych Tabachnyk (Ukrainian: Ян Петрович Табачник; 31 July 1945 – 11 September 2023) was a Soviet and Ukrainian variety composer, accordionist, politician and entrepreneur.
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Olena Shuliak
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Olena Oleksiivna Shuliak is a Ukrainian politician who has been serving as Leader of Servant of the People since 2021. Shuliak has also been a People's Deputy, after having elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.
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Mark Aldanov
- Occupations
- novelistwriterbiographeressayist
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Mark Aldanov was a Russian Empire and later French writer and critic, known for his historical novels.
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Sonya Koshkina
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- journalistwriterediting stafftelevision presenter
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Sonya Koshkina is the pen name of Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko (Ксенія Микитівна Василенко), a Ukrainian journalist, who is also co-owner and editor-in-chief of the online publication, LB.ua (Livyi Bereh)
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Alexandra Shevchenko
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- human rights activistwomen's rights activist
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Olexandra Shevchenko is a member of the Ukrainian radical feminist protest group FEMEN, which regularly demonstrates topless against manifestations of patriarchy, dictatorship, religion, and the sex industry.
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Vasyl Khmelnytsky
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- politicianentrepreneur
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Vasyl Ivanovych Khmelnytsky is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine on two occasions, first from 1998 to 2002 and then from 2006 to 2014. He is also the founder of holding company UFuture.
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Nikolay Bunge
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- civil servantuniversity teacherstatisticianeconomistfinance minister
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Nikolai Karl Paul von Bunge, more commonly known as Nikolai Bunge, was the German-Russian preeminent architect of Russian capitalism under Alexander III. He was a distinguished economist, statesman, and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He had also served as the rector of the Kiev University and the Finance minister.
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Andriy Zahorodniuk
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- statesperson
- Biography
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Andrii Pavlovych Zahorodniuk is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. From 2015 to 2017, Zahorodniuk headed the Reform Project Office at the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. He was the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 to 4 March 2020.
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Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
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- politician
- Biography
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Ivanna Orestivna Klympush-Tsintsadze is a Ukrainian politician and journalist, and former Vice-Prime-Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. She was elected into the Verkhovna Rada in 2016 and 2019.
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Elmar Mammadyarov
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Elmar Maharram oghlu Mammadyarov is an Azerbaijani diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan between 7 April 2004 and 16 July 2020.
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Grigory Gershuni
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- politicianrevolutionary
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Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
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Leon Petrażycki
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- university teacherjuristethicistphilosopherpolitician
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Leon Petrażycki was a Polish philosopher, legal scholar, and sociologist. He is considered an important forerunner of the sociology of law.
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Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1915
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- diplomatpoliticianwriter
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Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, also spelled Chemenzeminli, born Yusif Mirbaba oghlu Vazirov (12 September 1887 – 3 January 1943) was an Azerbaijani statesman and writer known for his novels, short stories, essays, and diaries. Evidence points to the fact that Chamanzaminli was the primary core author of the famous romance novel Ali and Nino first published in 1937 in Austria under the pen-name of Kurban Said.
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Ivan Malkovych
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- poetchildren's writerwriterpublisher
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Ivan Antonovych Malkovych is a noted Ukrainian poet and publisher. He is the proprietor of the publishing house "A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA", which specializes in high quality (often illustrated) editions of Ukrainian literature and poetry, and has been a winner of many industry awards.
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Oscar Zariski
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1918-1920
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- university teachermathematician
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Oscar Zariski was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
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Ilarion Ohienko
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- historianlinguistpriestBible translatorpolitician
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Metropolitan Ilarion was a Ukrainian Orthodox cleric, linguist, church historian, and historian of Ukrainian culture. In 1940 he was Archimandrite of the St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jableczna; in 1940 he became Bishop of Chełm; in 1944 he became the Metropolitan of Chełm and Lublin (Podlaskie), and in 1951 Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada). He was also active in Ukrainian politics, both during the revolution and later in emigration.
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Danylo Zabolotny
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- biologistmicrobiologistbotanist
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Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny was a Ukrainian epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology. In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology.
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Valeriy Shevchuk
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- literary historiantranslatorwriterarchivist
- Biography
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Valeriy Shevchuk is a Ukrainian writer.
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Antonina Kravchuk
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1958
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- economistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Antonina Mykhailivna Kravchuk is a former First Lady of Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Muntyan
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan is a Soviet and Ukrainian midfielder of the 1960s and 1970s. Muntyan is considered to be one of the best and most talented players to ever represent Dynamo Kyiv and Soviet Union. He is also the only player apart from Oleg Blokhin (his teammate in the 1970s) who has won 7 Soviet championships. His brother Viktor Muntyan is also a former professional football player.
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Iryna Zhylenko
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- children's writerjournalistpoet
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Irina Volodymyrivna Zhylenko (28 April 1941 – 3 August 2013), a Ukrainian poet, was the a wife of Volodymyr Drozd. She was born in Kyiv and died in August 2013 at the age of 72.
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Borys Oliynyk
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- writerpoliticianpoettranslatorjournalist
- Biography
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Borys Illich Oliynyk was a Soviet and Ukrainian poet, translator, and political activist. He served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1992 to 2006 and was chairman of the Ukrainian Culture Fund.
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Taras Berezovets
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- campaign managerpolitical scientisttelevision presenterjournalistpolitician
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Taras Valeriyovych Berezovets is Ukrainian political analyst, founder of Free Сrimea project (2014), CEO of the Fund for National Strategies (2015), founder of Hybrid Warfare Resistance Bureau (2015), co-founder of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (2016), external advisor to the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (2016–present) and native of Kerch city.
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Viktoria Siumar
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- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Viktoria Petrivna Siumar is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.
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Igor Newerly
- Enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Studied in 1923
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- writereditorauthorjournalistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Igor Newerly or Igor Abramow-Newerly was a Polish novelist and educator. He was born into a Czech-Russian family. His son, Jarosław Abramow-Newerly, is a Polish novelist. His grandfather Józef Newerly, was a Czech national, who held a title of Lovtchiy (Russian: Ловчий, Polish: Łowczy: "Master of the Hunt") to the court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
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Andriy Livytskyi
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Andriy Mykolayovych Livytskyi was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.
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Michael Rostovtzeff
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- archaeologistopinion journalistuniversity teacherart historianhistorian
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Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev, was a Russian historian whose career straddled the 19th and 20th centuries and who produced important works on ancient Roman and Greek history. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
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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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Nikolay Benardos
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- engineerinventor
- Biography
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos was an inventor from the Russian Empire who was of Greek descent who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method.
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Oksana Syroyid
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- politicianlawyer
- 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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Serhiy Kaplin
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- politician
- Biography
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Serhiy Mykolayovych Kaplin, born on December 15, 1979, is a Ukrainian politician. He is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIIth (candidate from UDAR) and VIIIth (candidate from Petro Poroshenko Bloc) convocations, and the leader of the Social Democratic Party. In the Ukrainian Parliamentary, he was a member of the faction of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
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Mykola Rudenko
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- poetscience fiction writerwriterhuman rights activist
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Mykola Danylovych Rudenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, philosopher, Soviet dissident, human rights activist and World War II veteran. He was the founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and was twice arrested for his dissident activities.
