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Valery Soldatenko
Valeriy Soldatenko (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Вале́рій Солдате́нко; born 4 April 1946) is a Ukrainians, Ukrainian historian and professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 2006. Soldatenko was a member of Communist Party of Ukraine, which he joined in 1969. In 2014, Soldatenko was appointed by then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych as the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, a decision which proved controversial due to Soldatenko's support for the Soviet Union and denial of the Holodomor genocide question, Holodomor as a genocide. After the Revolution of Dignity, Ukrainian Revolution, Soldatenko was forced to resign from his post, and since then, he has been a chief researcher at the I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Biography Valeriy Soldatenko was born on April 13, 1946, in Selydove, Selydivka (now Selydove in Donetsk Oblast). In 1970, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selydove
Selydove (, ; ), formerly Selydivka (; ), is a city in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The city is located in the western part of the region, on the Solona River (a tributary of the Vovcha, Dnieper basin). It is the administrative center of Selydove urban hromada. Its population was approximately The city has been under Donetsk People's Republic, Russian occupation since October 2024. History Early settlement and foundation The area where Selydove now stands was historically home to various nomadic tribes, including the Pannonian Avars, Avars, Goths, Huns, Pechenegs, and later the Mongol-Tatars and Nogais, Nogai Tatars. These groups roamed the steppes for centuries, often displacing one another. Intensive settlement of the area began in the second half of the 18th century following the Russo-Turkish wars, which ended Ottoman Empire, Ottoman and Crimean Khanate control over the northern Black Sea region. The Tsarist Russian Empire distributed land in the newly acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |