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National Academy Of Sciences Of Ukraine
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; , ; ''NAN Ukrainy'') is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine that is the main center of development of Science and technology in Ukraine, science and technology by coordinating a system of research institutes in the country. It is the main research oriented organization along with the five other academies in Ukraine specialized in various scientific disciplines. NAS Ukraine consists of numerous departments, sections, research institutes, scientific centers and various other supporting scientific organizations. The Academy reports on the annual basis to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The presidium of the academy is located at vulytsia Volodymyrska, 54, across the street from the Ukrainian Club Building, Building of Pedagogical Museum, which was used to host the Central Rada, Central Council during the independence period of 1917-18. In 1919–1991 it was a republican branch of the Academy of Sciences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetman Of Ukraine
The Hetman of all Ukraine () was the head of state and commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian State in 1918. History The position of Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, also known as the "Hetman of all Ukraine", was established in 1648 during the Khmelnytsky Uprising and first held by Bohdan Khmelnytsky as the leader of the Cossack Hetmanate. During that period, the office was an elected position. Later in the late 18th century, it was perfidiously liquidated by the Russian government during the expansion of the Russian territory towards the Black Sea coast. The position of Hetman of all Ukraine was established in 1918 by Pavlo Skoropadskyi, a descendant of the former hetman of the Zaporizhian Host Ivan Skoropadsky, Ivan Skoropadskyi. The Law on the Provisional State System of Ukraine was announced at the session of the Central Council of Ukraine on 29 April 1918, which laid a legal groundwork for the new position. Pavlo Skoropadskyi transformed Ukraine into the autocratic Ukrainian Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Vernadskyi
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (), also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (; – 6 January 1945), was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book ''The Biosphere'' in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess's 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. Vernadsky's portrait is depicted on the Ukrainian ₴1,000 hryvnia banknote. Early life Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on in the family of the native Kyiv residents Russian Imperial economist Ivan Vernadsky and Anna Konstantinovich, who came from an old Russia noble family. According to family legend, his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepan Smal-Stotsky
Stepan Yosypovych Smal-Stotsky (, ) was a Ukrainian linguist and academician, Slavist, cultural and political figure, member of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, and ambassador of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Prague. His doctorate on Slavic philology was accepted by Franz Miklosich at the University of Vienna in 1885.Horbach O. Miklosich, Franz//Encyclopedia of Ukraine. — Vol. III. — p. 406—407. Smal-Stotsky was the father of Roman Smal-Stocki and a grandfather of George S. N. Luckyj. Works * ''Ruthenian language grammar'' (; Hramatyka Ruskoyi movy). Ed.3. Vienna, 1914 (together with Theodor Gartner) * Nemoliv. Memoirs'. "Piramida". Lviv, 2013. Monographs * ''Ruthenian orthography'' (; Ruska pravopys). 1891-1893. * ''Ruthenian grammar'' (; Ruska hramatyka). 1893. * ''Bukovynian Ruthenia (Rus). Cultural and Historical Overview'' (; Bukovynska Rus. Kulturno-istorychnyi obrazok). 1897. References External links on Encyclopedia of Ukraine web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Petrov (academician)
Nikolai Ivanovych Petrov (; 1840–1921) was a Russian theologian and philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ..., long time worked in the Imperial Russian Southwestern Krai, one of founding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Petrov who about 40 years worked for the Kiev Theological Academy, in 1918 attended the Ukrainian Science Society Extraordinary General Assembly where an issue was raised about establishing of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.Mahdalina Bukhalska. Documents about life and works of academician Nikolai Petrov (ДОКУМЕНТИ ПРО ЖИТТЯ ТА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ АКАДЕМІКА МИКОЛИ ПЕТРОВА)'. State Archive Service of Ukraine. Petrov was elected among the first academician of the newly est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahathanhel Krymsky
Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky (, , romanized: ''Agafangel Yefimovich Krymsky''; ; – 25 January 1942) was a Ukrainian Orientalist, linguist, polyglot (knowing up to 35 languages), literary scholar, folklorist, writer, and translator. He was one of the founders of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) in 1918 and a full member of it and the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1903. Although Krymsky was not ethnically Ukrainian, he described himself as a " Ukrainophile". In 1941, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities as "Ukrainian nationalist," an "ideologist of Ukrainian nationalists", and a "head of nationalistic underground". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Kosynsky
Volodymyr Andriyovych Kosynskyi or Vladimir Kosinskiy () was a Ukrainian and Russian economist and professor, one of founding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Ukrainian minister of labor. Born in affluent noble family, Kosynskyi received his secondary education from the Novhorod-Siverskyi gymnasium which finished in 1883. In 1887 he graduated from the faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University and at the same time he passed the external examinations for the full course of legal sciences (Juridical Science). For some time Kosynskyi worked as a teacher of mathematics in various gymnasiums. In 1892-1894 he was professorial scholarship recipient at the department of political economy and statistics of the Moscow State University. His doctoral advisor was Alexander Chuprov. In 1896-1897 Kosynskyi went on research trip abroad to Germany and Austria (Austria-Hungary). In 1900 he was awarded Privatdozent of the department of political e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky
Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (; ; January 20, 1865 - January 21, 1919) was a Russian and Ukrainian Marxism, Marxist, economist, and politician. He was a leading exponent of Legal Marxism in the Russian Empire and was the author of numerous works dealing with the Value (economics), theory of value, the Allocative efficiency, distribution of a social revenue, history of managerial development, and fundamentals of cooperative managerial activities. After the Russian Revolution, he was a founder of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and one of the earliest Ukrainian ministers of finances in Volodymyr Vynnychenko's General Secretariat of Ukraine, General Secretariat of the Central Council of Ukraine. Early life Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky was born on 8 January 1865 in the village of Kupiansk Raion, Solone in the Kupyansky Uyezd of the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). His father's distant ancestors were Lipka Tatars who had come to Lithuani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Levytsky
Orest Ivanovych Levytsky (; – 9 May 1922) was a Ukrainian historian, ethnographer, and writer. He was a member of Kiev Hromada (Hromada), an editor of '' Kievan Past'', and a Russian language philologist. Biography Born near Poltava, in Mayachka village, into the family of a priest, Levytsky graduated from the Poltava Divinity School and Seminary in 1869. In 1869-1870 he worked as a private teacher in the village Vepryk (near Hadiach). As the best student, Levytsky was referred to be studied at a theological academy but unexpectedly enrolled into the Law faculty of Kiev University. Later he transferred to the History and Philology faculty, from which he graduated in 1874. Led by Volodymyr Antonovych, in 1874 Levytsky defended his dissertation "Overview of the internal history of Little Russia in the second half of 17th century". In 1874-1921 Levytsky was a secretary of the Provisional Commission in reviewing of old acts while teaching Russian language (1874-1909) in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Bahaliy
Dmytro Ivanovych Bahalii (, ) was a Ukrainian historian and public and political figure, one of founding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1923. He was also a professor and rector at Kharkiv University (1887, 1906–1910), and mayor of Kharkiv (1914–1917). He served as an official in the Tsarist government, earning the title of Active State Councillor. Later, he became an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and nine universities across the Russian Empire (1906). Until 1917, he was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party and the State Council. Following the February Revolution, he voluntarily handed over his mayoral seat of Kharkiv to the Socialist-Revolutionary Vladimir Karelin. Starting in the 1930s, Bahalii faced repression by the Soviets. He was the first to compile a full collection of the works of Hryhoriy Skovoroda. Biography Early life and education Dmitr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consisted of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both the Emperor of Austria and the King of Hungary. Austria-Hungary constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy: it was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War, following wars of independence by Hungary in opposition to Habsburg rule. It was dissolved shortly after Dissolution of Austria-Hungary#Dissolution, Hungary terminated the union with Austria in 1918 at the end of World War 1. One of Europe's major powers, Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe (after Russian Empire, Russia) and the third-most populous (afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
