Andrii Grechylo ( uk, Андрій Богданович Ґречило; Andriy Bohdanovych Grechylo / Hrechylo / Greczylo), is a Ukraine, Ukrainian historian, heraldry, heraldist and vexillology, vexillologist. During his career he has published several books and designed hundreds of coats of arms, flags, banners and seals for over 1000 different municipalities and institutions.
Biography
Andrii Grechylo was born on November 19, 1963, in Lviv, Ukraine. He studied architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic. Since 1990, he was a research worker (scholar) of the Hrushevskyi Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
Grechylo received his PhD in historical science in 1996 and defended a dissertation titled "Ukrainian Municipal Heraldry: Tendencies of Evolution". In 2012, he defended a dissertation titled "Ukrainian Territorial Heraldry" and received his DSc.
In 1990, he has founded the Ukraiynske Heraldychne Tovarystvo (Ukrainian Heraldry Society) – since 1995 a member of FIAV (Federation internationale des associations vexillologiques) and CIGH (Confédération Internationale de Généalogie et d’Héraldique). Andrii Grechylo is an associate member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique (International Academy of Heraldry) and president of UHT (Ukrainian Heraldry Society).
Since 1993, he is an editor of the bulletin ''Znak'' (''The Sign''). He also is an editor of the yearly journal ''Genealogichni zapysky'' (''Genealogical Notes''). Grechylo is co-author of the Small State Coat of Arms of Ukraine. He has also designed flags and arms for provinces, districts, cities, towns, villages, universities, organisations, ecclesiastical provinces and for individuals. Although he is known mainly for his expertise in heraldry and vexillology.
In 1992—2011 and since 2015, Andrii Grechylo was a member of the Presidential Commission of the State Awards and Heraldry. In 2009, he was honoured with the Order of Merit (Ukraine), Order of Merit 3rd Class.
In 2013, Andrii Grechylo was made by Federation internationale des associations vexillologiques, FIAV a Fellow of the Federation.
Publications
* ''Eagle and Lion in the heraldry of the Galician-Volhynian State (13th-14th centuries)''. In: L`aigle et le lion dans le blason medieval et moderne: Actes du IXe colloque international d`heraldique, Cracovie, 4-8 septembre 1995. P. 123–126. Warszawa, 1997.
*
Ukrayinska miska heraldyka', Kyiv, Lviv, 1998 (Ukrainian Municipal Heraldry)
* ''Herby mist Ukrayiny (14 – 1 pol. 20 st.)'', Kyiv, 2001 (Coats of Arms of Ukrainian Towns (14th-First Half of 20th Century)) (co-author)
* ''Herby ta prapory mist i sil Rivnenskoyi oblasti'', Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne, 2002 (Coats of Arms and Flags of Towns and Villages in Rivne Oblast) (co-author)
* ''Contemporary flags of the Ukrainian regions: Old traditions and new designs''. In: Proceedings of the XX International Congress of Vexillology, Stockholm, 27 July to 1 August 2003 /ed. by J. O. Engene. P. 233–254. Bergen: Nordic Flag Society, 2004.
* ''Herby ta prapory mist i sil Ukrayiny'', vol. 1. Lviv, 2004 (Coats of Arms and Flags of Towns and Villages in Ukraine, vol. 1) .
* ''New symbols for an old Swedish village in the Ukrainian steppes''. In: Nordiska Flaggenkontakt, no 46, p. 35-37. Laksevag, 2008.
* '' Pechatky mista Lvova XIV-ХVІІI st.'', Lviv, 2010 (Seals of Lviv City (14th-18th Centuries))
* ''Ukrayinska terytorialna heraldyka'', Lviv, 2010 (Ukrainian Territorial Heraldry)
* ''Bibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk: Hrushevskyi M., Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy'', Lviv, 2015 (Bibliographic index: Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus') (compiler).
* ''Nash herb: Ukrayinski symvoly vid knyazhykh chasiv do syohodennya'', Kyiv, 2018. (Our Coat of Arms. Ukrainian Symbols from the Princely Times to the Present) (author of text).
* ''Herby ta prapory mist i sil Ukrayiny'', vol. 2. Lviv, 2020 (Coats of Arms and Flags of Towns and Villages in Ukraine, vol. 2) .
File: Uabook_Gre1.jpg, Ukrainian Municipal Heraldry
File: Uabook_Gre3.jpg, Coats of Arms of Ukrainian Towns (14th-First Half of 20th Century)
File: Uabook_Gre2.jpg, Coats of Arms and Flags of Towns and Villages in Rivne Oblast
File: Uabook_Gre4.jpg, Coats of Arms and Flags of Towns and Villages in Ukraine, vol. 1
File: Uabook_Gre5.jpg, Ukrainian Territorial Heraldry
File: Uabook_Gre6.jpg, Bibliographic index: Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus'
File: Uabook_Gre7.jpg, Our Coat of Arms. Ukrainian Symbols from the Princely Times to the Present
File: Uabook_Gre8.png, Coats of Arms and Flags of Towns and Villages in Ukraine, vol. 2
Awards
* The 3rd Class of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), Order of Merit (2009).
* In 2013 he was made by Federation internationale des associations vexillologiques, FIAV a Fellow of the Federation.
References
Sources
Publications at «Academia.edu»
External links
Ukrainian Heraldry Society websiteAIH website
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20th-century Ukrainian historians
Ukrainian heraldic artists
Vexillologists
Living people
1963 births
Lviv Polytechnic alumni
University of Lviv faculty
Members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society
21st-century Ukrainian historians