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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 that is the main center of development of 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, 57, across the street from the Building of Pedagogical Museum, which was used to host the Central Council during the independence period of 1917-18. In 1919–1991 it was a repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetman Of Ukraine
Hetman of Ukraine ( uk, Гетьман України) is a former historic government office and political institution of Ukraine that is equivalent to a head of state or a monarch. Brief history As a head of state the position was established at first by Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Cossack Hetmanate in the mid-17th century. During that period the office was electoral. Later in the late 18th century it was successfully liquidated by the Russian government during the expansion of the Russian territory towards the Black Sea coast. The position and title was reestablished in 1918 by the Ukrainian General Pavlo Skoropadsky Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi ( uk, Павло Петрович Скоропадський, Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi; – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, decorated Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian Arm ...i, a descendant of the former Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Ivan Skoropadskyi. The Law on the Provisional Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Academy Of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals. Peter the Great established the Academy (then the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences) in 1724 with guidance from Gottfried Leibniz. From its establishment, the Academy benefitted from a slate of foreign scholars as professors; the Academy then gained its first clear set of goals from the 1747 Charter. The Academy functioned as a university and research center throughout the mid-18th century until the university was dissolved, leaving research as the main pillar of the institution. The rest of the 18th century continuing on through the 19th century consisted of many published academic works from Academy scholars and a few Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepan Smal-Stotsky
Stepan Yosypovych Smal-Stotsky ( uk, Степан Йосипович Смаль-Стоцький, pl, Stepan Smal-Stocki) 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. 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. External links on Encyclopedia of Ukraine website * Katchanovski, I., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Petrov (academician)
Nikolai Ivanovych Petrov (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Петро́в) was an Imperial Russian theologist and philologist, 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 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 ....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 el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahathanhel Krymsky
Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky ( uk, Агатангел Юхимович Кримський, russian: Агафангел Ефимович Крымский; – 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 of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1903. Although Krymsky had no Ukrainian origin he described himself as "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 ( uk, Володимир Андрійович Косинський) 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 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky
Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (russian: Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский, uk, Михайло Іванович Туган-Барановський, romanized: ''Mykhailo Ivanovych Tuhan-Baranovskyi'') was a Ukrainian economist, politician, statesman. He is remembered as one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and one of the earliest Ukrainian ministers of finances in the Vynnychenko's General Secretariat of the Central Council of Ukraine. In professional circles he is remembered as a leading exponent of Legal Marxism in the Tsarist Russian Empire and was the author of numerous works dealing with the theory of value, the distribution of a social revenue, history of managerial development, and fundamentals of cooperative managerial activities. Early life Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky was born on 8 January 1865 in the village of Solyonoe in the Kupyansky Uyezd of the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Levytsky
Orest Ivanovych Levytsky ( uk, О́рест Іва́нович Леви́цький; – 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 the Poltava Divinity School and Seminary in 1869. In 1869-70 he worked as a private teacher in 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 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 teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Bahaliy
Dmytro Ivanovych Bahaliy ( uk, Дмитро Іванович Багалій, russian: Дмитрій Ивановичъ Багалѣй; 1857-1932) 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, and achieved 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 away his mayoral seat of Kharkiv to the Socialist-Revolutionary Vladimir Karelin. He was the first to compile a full collection of the works of Hryhori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and was dissolved shortly after its defeat in the First World War. Austria-Hungary was ruled by the House of Habsburg and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy. It was a multinational state and one of Europe's major powers at the time. Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, at and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry in the world, after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also became the world's third-largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Ukraine
Western Ukraine or West Ukraine ( uk, Західна Україна, Zakhidna Ukraina or , ) is the territory of Ukraine linked to the former Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, which was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Second Polish Republic, and came fully under the control of the Soviet Union (via the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) only in 1939, following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. There is no universally accepted definition of the territory's boundaries (see the map, right), but the contemporary Ukrainian administrative regions or Oblasts of Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankovsk, Lviv, Ternopil and Transcarpathia (which were part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) are nearly always included and the Lutsk and Rivne Oblasts (parts of the annexed from Poland during its Third Partition) are usually included. It is less common to include the Khmelnytski and, especially, the Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr Oblasts in this cate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
