Oleksiy Semenovych Onyschenko (in ua, Олексій Семенович Онищенко) is a philosopher and culture theorist, Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1997), Recipient of the

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(2008), Professor and Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor Honoris Causa,

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. He is the Head of the Division of History, Philosophy and Law of the

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and the General Director of V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

Life

Oleksiy Semenovych Onyschenko was born on March 17, 1933, in the village of Rudka near

Poltava Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively ...

. In 1956 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Kiev State University (now,

), and in 1962 completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (then,

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

). Having started his academic career as

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in 1962, he continued as

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and Senior Research Associate until progressing to the position of the Deputy Director for Academic Work of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1978. He later worked as Director of the Inter-republican Branch of the Academy of Social Sciences in Kiev (until 1991). His research focused on philosophical and sociological problems of development of intellectual and spiritual culture, evolution of mass consciousness and the way of life, scientific and technological revolution, sociology of religion and the history of religion in Ukraine. Since 1992, O.S. Onyschenko has been heading the Vernadsky National Academic Library of Ukraine. In 1997, he was elected Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine under the specialty "Culturology". In 1998, Academician Onyschenko was elected Academic Secretary of the Division of History, Philosophy, and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.Онищенко Алексей Семенович
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Honours and awards

Order of the Badge of Honour The Order of the Badge of Honour (russian: орден «Знак Почёта», orden "Znak Pochyota") was a civilian award of the Soviet Union. It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding ...

— 1981 *

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, Third Class — 1998 *

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise The Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise ( uk, Орден князя Ярослава Мудрого) is an award of Ukraine. It is awarded for distinguished services to the state and people of the Ukrainian nation in the field of state building, ...

, Fifth Class — 2003 * Winner of Ukraine's "Person of the Year" contest in the category "Scientist of the Year" — 2006 *

, Fourth Class — 2008 * Ukrainian State Prize in science and technology — 2008

Books

* ''Ideĭna kryza relihiï i relihiĭnyĭ modernizm'' / idp. red. O.S. Onyshchenko.(Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1974) he ideational crisis of religion and religious modernism * ''Sot︠s︡ialʹnyĭ progress, religiia, ateizm'' (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1977) ocial progress, religion, atheism* ''Istoriia khrystyians'koi tserkvy na Ukraihi: relihiieznavchyi dovidkovyi narys'' / idp. red. O.S. Onyshchenko.(Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1992) history of the Christian Church in Ukraine: An essay in religious studies* ''Iuriĭ Oleksiĭovych Mezhenko (1892-1969): Materialy do biohrafiï'' / idp. red. O.S. Onyshchenko.(Kiev: Instytut ukraïnsʹkoï arkheohrafiï NAN Ukraïny, 1994) Yurii Oleksiiovych Mezhenko (1892-1969): Biographical materials* ''Prosvityteli Kyrylo i Mefodiĭ u pysemnykh dzherelakh Instytutu rukopysu TSNB NAN Ukraïny: katalog rukopysiv druhoï polovyny XV-pershoï chverti XX st.'' / idp. red. P.S. Sokhanʹ, O.S. Onyshchenko (Kiev: Instytut ukraïnsʹkoï arkheohrafiï, 1995) ducators Cyril and Methodius in written sources of the Institute of Manuscript, the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine: The catalogue of the manuscripts, 15th-20th centuries* ''Kyievo-Mohyliansʹka akademiia : u dokumentakh i ridkisnykh vydanniakh TSentralʹnoï naukovoï biblioteky im. V.I. Vernadsʹkoho NAN Ukraïny'' / idp. red. O.S. Onyshchenko(Kiev: Instytut ukraïnsʹkoï arkheohrafiï, 1995) he Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in documents and rare prints of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine* ''Vydatni vcheni Natsionalʹnoï Akademiï nauk Ukraïny : osobovi arkhivni ta rukopysni fondy akademikiv i chleniv-korespondentiv u Natsionalʹniĭ Bibliotetsi Ukraïny imeni V.I. Vernadsʹkoho ; (1918-1998) putivnyk'' / ol. red. O.S. Onyshchenko (Kiev: Biblioteka, 1998) [Distinguished scholars of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: personal archives and manuscripts of Academicians and Corresponding Members of the Academy in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, 1918-1998; A guide book] * ''Arkhivni ustanovy Ukraïny : dovidnyk'' / [red. koll. O.S. Onyshchenko ... et al.]. (Kiev: Komitet, 2000) [Archival institutions of Ukraine: A directory] * ''Ukraïnsʹka revoliutsiia i derzhavnistʹ (1917-1920 rr.): naukovo-bibliohrafichne vydannia'' / ol. red. O.S. Onyshchenko(Kiev: Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, 2001) he Ukrainian revolution and the statehood: 1917-1920* ''Osobovi arkhivni fondy Instytutu rukopysu : putivnyk'' / idp. red. O.S. Onyshchenko(Kiev: Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, 2002) ersonal archival funds of the Institute of the Manuscript: A guide book * ''Istoriia natsionalʹnoï akademiï nauk Ukraïny 1938-1941: dokumenty i materialy'' / idp. red. O.S. Onyshchenko(Kiev: NBUV, 2003) history of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 1938-1941: Documents and materials* ''Naukovi biblioteky Ukraïny : dovidnyk'' / idp. red. O.S. Onyshchenko(Kiev: NBUV, 2004) cademic libraries in Ukraine: A directory* ''Natsionalʹna akademiia nauk Ukraïny : problemy rozvytku ta vkhodzhennia v ievropeĭskyĭ naukovyĭ prostir'' / .S. Onyshchenko, B.A. Malitsʹkyi, red.(Kiev: NBUV,2007) he National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Issues in development and integration into the European academic space* ''Ukraïna—Monholiia : 800 rokiv u konteksti istoriï: zbirnyk naukovykh prat͡s'' / .S. Onyshchenko, hol. red.(Kiev: NBUV, 2008) kraine and Mongolia: 800 years in the context of history: A collective monograph* ''Bibliotechna sprava v Ukraïni v XX stolitti'' / With L.A. Dubrovina. (Kiev: NBUV, 2009) he library profession in Ukraine in the 20th century* ''Intehratsiia Ukraïny u svitove spivtovarystvo v konteksti rozvytku bibliotechnykh informatsiĭnykh tekhnolohiĭ'' / oll. monograph: O.S. Onyschenko et al.(Kiev: NBUV, 2011) kraine's integration into the world community in the context of development of library information technologies* ''Natsionalʹnyĭ informatsiĭnyĭ suverenitet u konteksti rozvytku novitnikh informatsiĭnykh tekhnolohiĭ'' / oll. monograph: O.S. Onyshchenko ... et al.(Kiev: NBUV, 2011) he national information sovereignty in the context of development of modern information technologies* ''Informatsiĭna skladova sotsiokulʹturnoï transformatsiï ukraïnsʹkoho suspilʹstva'' oll. monograph: O.S. Onyshchenko ... et al.(Kiev: NBUV, 2012) he information component of the socio-cultural transformation of the Ukrainian society

Books about Oleksiy Semenovych Onyschenko

''Oleksiĭ Semenovych Onyshchenko : materialy do biobibliohrafiï'' / T.V. Dobko, A.L. Panova. (Kiev: NBUV, 2003)

''Lichnost' v istorii kul'tury. Akademik Aleksei Onischenko'' A person in the history of culture. Academician Aleksei Onischenko (Moscow: BUL, 2013)

References

External links

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Onyschenko, Oleksiy Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukrainian philosophers Living people 1933 births Writers from Poltava Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd class Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology