Volodymyr Stefanovych Biletskyy ( uk, Володимир Стефанович Білецький; born 26 January 1950 in Matviivka,

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) is a Ukrainian mining engineer, D.Sc. scientist and researcher in the field of

coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

, publisher and political scientist. He has published many technical articles on the subject of mining, and was the initiator and editor of the first Ukrainian ''

Mining Encyclopedia The ''Mining Encyclopedia'' ( uk, Гірнича енциклопедія) is a Ukrainian language comprehensive set of encyclopedias about the science and technology of mining. The encyclopedias were compiled by more than 100 of the leading e ...

''.

Biography

Biletskyy finished Vilniansk high school in 1967 and then studied at the electro-technical faculty of the

National Mining University of Ukraine The Dnipro University of Technology ( uk, Національний технічний університет «Дніпровська політехніка»), abbreviated in Ukrainian as NTU DP ( uk, НТУ ДП) is located in Dnipro, the third ...

. Graduating in 1972, he worked as an engineer in the research department of the faculty of automation of manufacturing processes at the same university (1974–1975). Between 1975 and 1976 he worked as the chief engineer at the coal mine operated by the State Coal Enterprise in

Makiivka Makiivka ( uk, Макіївка, Makíyivka, ; russian: Макеевка, Makeyevka, ), formerly Dmytriivsk, is an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Located from the capital Donetsk, the two cities are practically a conurbat ...

, and then as a research assistant in the electrical department of the Makiivka Research Institute, researching safety in mining production (1977–1979). In 1981 Biletskyy then became the head research assistant at the

Donetsk National Technical University Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU, formerly Donetsk Polytechnic Institute and other names) is the biggest and oldest higher education establishment in Donbas, founded in 1921. In its early years, it was attended by Nikita Khrushchev. ...

. In 1986 Biletsky finished post-graduate studies; in 1994 he completed his Doctorate in Technical Science and in 2004 he was elected as an academic to the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine (a public-funded research institution part of the

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...

); in 2005 became a Corresponding Member of this institute. From 2006 he was professor in the faculty of

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at the

. In 2012 Biletskyy became

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at the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine. From 2014 he is a professor at the Poltava National Technical Yuriy Kondratyuk University., from 2017 he is a professor at the

Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (NTU "KhPI") ( uk, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут"), in the city of Kha ...

Scientific research and publishing

Biletskyy was the science editor of the ''

'' (1998–2013), which contributed to creating a nationally unified mining terminological system in Ukraine. He has freely donated the contents of this multiple-volume set to Wikipedia, and has incorporated it into thousands of articles covering mining and technology subjects in Ukrainian Wikipedia. He has published over 450 academic papers, including more than 30 books ( monographs, course books, dictionaries and encyclopedias). He is also the author of over 200 articles in

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and

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s. He is a founder and

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of the national scientific and informational-analytical magazine Skhid (since 1995 an academic periodical on philosophy, history and economics); the founder and co-editor of the Donetsk Herald of

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. A regular contributor to the

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, by 2015 Biletskyy had created more than 17,000 articles and performed more than 94,000 edits on Wikipedia. Biletskyy is the owner of 60 patents regarding various processing and transporting technologies in Ukraine and Russia.

Public activities

Originally a member of the

Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...

(1975–1990), Biletskyy later became one of the co-founders of the

People's Movement of Ukraine The People's Movement of Ukraine ( uk, Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrayiny) is a Ukrainian political party and first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement ( uk, Рух, Ru ...

(Rukh) in

Donbas The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrai ...

. Biletskyy left Rukh in 1997. In 1997–2012, Biletskyy was consultant to the Deputies of

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

(Ukrainian Parliament), O.V. Kulyk,

Ivan Drach Ivan Fedorovych Drach ( uk, Іва́н Фе́дорович Драч; 17 October 1936 – 19 June 2018) was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist. Drach played an important role in the founding of R ...

, and O.I. Klymenko. Biletskyy is a co-founder and head of the Donetsk branch of

(1997),Branches of the Shevchenko Scientific Society
the Donetsk branch of Ukrajina-Svit Association (1997), the Donetsk Regional Association of the Ukrainian language (1989). He heads the research and editing foundation Ukrainian Centre of Culture Studies (Donetsk, Ukraine), which he founded in 1994, and is currently on the Consultative Council for Nationalities Questions at the Donetsk Region State Administration. Volodymyr Biletskyy has received a number of awards and decorations for his publishing, political, social and cultural activities including an

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(Third Class) from the President of Ukraine,

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

References

External links

Total number of articles created on Wikipedia by Volodymyr Biletskyy

List of publications and curriculum vitae

Articles by "В. С. Білецький" via Google Scholar

Books by "В. С. Білецький" via Google Books
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