Leontii Voitovych ( ua, Войтович Леонтій Вікторович, May 16, 1951, Yemanzhelinsk,

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) is a modern

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scientist-historian and holds a

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: До́ктор нау́к) degree. He is a

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of the department of Middle Ages history at the Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies (

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) as well as an

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director of history of Middle Ages and

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in the

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Biography

Born in the Ural region of the Russian Federation, Voitovych is from the

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. A brother of his grandfather, Petro Voitovych (1862–1938), was a Lviv sculptor and known for his works of Lviv Opera. His family was deported across the

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during the Stalin period and he was growing up in small mining town with many other children of Soviet exiles. His father, who finished the Prague Polytechnic as a bridge engineer, perished in a mine from a methane explosion. Soon after the Stalin's death, in 1956 Voitovych together with his mother returned to homeland and settled in

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. Because in the Soviet Union Voitovych was recognized as "unreliable element" by state authorities (i.e. a family of former exiles), he was discouraged to even try to enroll in the

. In 1972 he graduated from Lviv Polytechnic Institute, now Lviv Polytechnic National University, specializing in

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. After graduation Voitovych worked in

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at a local branch of the All-Union Institute of maintenance and exploitation of vehicle-tractor park. In 1981 he started to be involved in historical research. His supervisor was doktor of science Yaroslav Isayevych who was a director of the department of historical landmarks of the Institute of Social Sciences (today Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies). In 1994 Voitovych defended his dissertation for a candidate of sciences on "Appanage duchies of Riurikids and Gediminids in 12-16th centuries". In 2001 he defended his doctorate dissertation "Princely dynasties of Eastern Europe (9-16th centuries): composition, social and political role". Since the late 1990s he was a professor of academic department of Ancient History of Ukraine at the

and since 2005 Voitovych is heading academic department of Middle Ages history and Byzantine studies. He is considered a notable historian of genealogy of

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and the history of

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(

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).Dariusz Dąbrowski, O zgonie Daniela Romanowicza i i jego następstwach dla Rusi Halicko-Wołyńskie

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Recognitions

* 2002 – a laureate of the Hrushevsky Prize from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Presidium * 2014 – State prize in a field of science and technology (for his work on ''History of Ukrainian Culture'' in five volumes)

Bibliography (in Ukrainian language)

*''Генеалогія династії Рюриковичів'' (English title: Genealogy of Rurikid Dynasty), 1990 *''Генеалогія династії Рюриковичів Гедиміновичів'' (English title: The genealogy Rurikids and Gediminids), 1992 *''Удільні князівства Рюриковичів і Гедиміновичів у ХІІ-XVI ст.'' (English title: Local princes of Rurikids and Gediminids in 12th to 16th century), 1996 *''Князівські династії Східної Європи (кінець IX — початок XVI ст.): суспільна і політична роль'' (English title: Prince Dynasties of Eastern Europe )end of the 9th to the beginning 16th century): social and political role), 2000 * Holmgard: Where did Sviatoslav Ihorevych, Volodymyr Sviatoslavych and Yaroslav Volodymyrovych Rule? /

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, № 3 (522), 2015. — P. 37-55. *''Галицько-волинські етюди'' (English title" Galicia–Volhynian Etudes), 2011

Footnotes

External links

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* Tseluiko, O.
Leontiy Voitovych, detailed information
'. Mykolaiv over Dnister website. {{DEFAULTSORT:Voitovych, Leontii 1951 births Living people People from Chelyabinsk Oblast Lviv Polytechnic alumni University of Lviv faculty 20th-century Ukrainian historians Ukrainian medievalists Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology