Mykola Kugutyak, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, is a well-known specialist in the field of history, archeology, ethnology and tourism. The author of numerous scientific works devoted to the problem of ethnocultural processes in the Carpathian region from ancient times to the present day. In 2007, for his scientific achievements, Prof. M. Kugutyak was awarded the title of Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine. He is an honorary doctor of Uzhhorod National University. Professor M.V. Kugutyak is the founder of the Department of Ethnology and Archaeology (he was the head of the department from 2005 to the fall of 2014) and the director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of History, Ethnology and Archaeology of the Carpathians (operating since 2008). On the initiative of a famous scientist, the Carpathian Ethnoarchaeological Expedition was created, which began its activities in 2006 with the aim of identifying, mapping and examining ancient and medieval cult monuments of the Carpathian region, defense and production complexes of the region, Transcarpathian roads, studying historical toponymy, traditional culture of ethnographic groups, and the history of the national liberation movement. Professor Kugutyak M.V. is the founder of a new direction in Ukrainian historical science – archaeopetrology, a science that studies ancient megalithic monuments. He heads the scientific school of historical ethnology. A unique inventory of the ethnohistorical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region made it possible to identify more than 300 previously unknown monuments of various historical periods. Thus, more than 150 unique objects have been localized on the territory of the Galician Hutsul region alone. Among them are dozens of medieval hillforts, monasteries, castles and defensive yards, salt production complexes concentrated near ancient roads and passes. More than three dozen rock sanctuaries with unique sculptural, relief and graphic images have been returned from oblivion. Along with the famous petroglyphic complexes of the Balkans, the Caucasus, Karelia, the Andes, and Tibet, a large group of “rock temples” of the Ukrainian Carpathians has been discovered.
The discovery of many archaeological, historical, cultural and ethnographic monuments has contributed to the development of the region’s tourism sector, increased the investment attractiveness of the Carpathian region. The introduction of these monuments into scientific and tourist circulation allows developing new tourist routes, publishing scientific monographs, booklets and guidebooks, opening new museums and reserves, and contributes to increasing attention to the region and the comprehensive preservation of its natural and historical environment.
Under the leadership of M.V. Kugutyak, scientific research works are being carried out:
1. Historical, cultural and ethno-social processes in the Carpathian region (state registration number 0109V000838).
2. Ethno-cultural processes in the Carpathian region (Ivano-Frankivsk region) (state registration number 0109V000839).
A number of monographs have been published on the above topics, introducing the results of research on ancient and medieval sacred monuments:
“Carpathian region: heritage of the ages” (2006)
“Ternoshor rock sanctuary in the Carpathians” (2007)
“Stone antiquities of Kosmach” (2007)
“Rock sanctuaries of the Sokil peaks” (2008)
“Antiquities of the Hutsul region. Sources from the ethnic history of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Catalog of historical and cultural monuments in 2 volumes. T. I. Sacred heritage of the Hutsul region” (2011)
“Antiquities of the Hutsul region. Sources from the ethnic history of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Catalog of historical and cultural monuments. T. II. Hillforts, castles, salt mining centers, ancient Transcarpathian roads” (2011)
“Ancient temples on the sacred peaks of the Kosiv region” (2012)
“The Great Skete in the Carpathians: in 3 volumes. Volume 1: Paterik of the Skete. Synodical” (2013)
“The Great Skete in the Carpathians: in 3 volumes. Volume 2: The Great Skete in documents and materials of the XVII-XXI centuries.” (2015)
“The Great Skete in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 3: The Great Skete in the Markova Desert: a Ukrainian, spiritual and cultural-historical phenomenon” (2017)
“Bubnyshche. The Rock Sanctuary of the Great Goddess in the Carpathians” (2015)
“Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1923. Encyclopedia” (2018, 2019)
“The Goshov Monastery of the Mother of God on Yasna Gora in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 1: The Goshov Monastery in Written Historical Sources of the 16th – 20th Centuries” (2018)
Professor Kugutyak M.V. He organized a number of international and all-Ukrainian scientific conferences:
“The Spiritual Axis of Ukraine: Galicia – Dnieper Region – Donetsk Region” (2004)
“Maniavskyi Skete in the Spiritual and Cultural Life of Ukraine and Abroad: To the 400th Anniversary of its Foundation” (2011)
“Kosmach in the History of the Hutsul Region and Ukraine: To the 600th Anniversary of the First Written Mention” (2012)
“Christianity in the Carpathians: To the 1025th Anniversary of the Baptism of Ukraine-Rus” (2013)
“Hoshev Monastery in the Spiritual, Cultural and Historical Life of Ukraine: To the 400th Anniversary of the Order of St. Basil the Great” (2017)
“The Western Ukrainian Republic: Revolution, Statehood, and Sobornost. To the 100th anniversary of the formation of the ZUNR” (2018)
Under the leadership of Kugutyak M.V., 23 candidate and two doctoral theses were defended. He is the chairman of the specialized council for the defense of candidate theses in the specialties “History of Ukraine”, “Ethnology”.
Bohdan Tomenchuk , head of the department, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, is known in Ukraine and abroad as one of the leading archaeologists – researchers of ancient Halych. The scope of his scientific interests covers the following issues: city-forming and state-forming processes in the Galician-Bukovyna Prykarpattia, nationalization and Christianization of the Galician land, trans-European and regional trade routes in the Prykarpattia and Transnistria. The author of numerous scientific works devoted to the problem of state-forming and city-forming processes in the territory of the Galician land, as well as the problems of the Trans-Carpathian and trans-European routes.
Tomenchuk B.P. as the head of archaeological expeditions, conducted over 50 archaeological seasons, during which, in particular, such chronicled cities as Halych, Vasyliv, Kuchelmin and Bykoven on the Dniester, Oleshkiv on the Prut and Horodok on the Cheremosh were studied. Dozens of defensive structures and more than a hundred residential and economic and craft buildings of the 10th – 13th centuries were excavated. In addition, 4 wooden churches of the 12th – 13th centuries were investigated. and among them the Oleshkiv rotunda-tomb, unique in Europe. In total, Tomenchuk B. studied more than 500 ancient burials of the 12th – 13th centuries.
In 1991–2004, the main work was carried out on the territory of the Krylo hillfort, which in the 10th century. was a Great Croatian city-polis and a princely military-political and cult center, and in the 12th – 13th centuries. – a child of the capital city of the Galician Principality and the Galician-Volyn state. Since 2005, research has been started at the Panteleimonivskyi settlement (in the 12th–13th centuries it was the princely court of Roman Mstyslavych and Danylo Halytskyi), and since 2009 – at the Spasskyi settlement (princely court of Volodymyr Volodarevych). In recent years, excavations have been carried out in the Skytets and Voznesinka tracts on the territory of the Manyavskyi Monastery (Manyava village, Bogorodchanskyi district, Ivano-Frankivsk region) and in the Chornyi Dilok tract of the Goshivskyi Monastery (Hoshiv village, Dolynskyi district, Ivano-Frankivsk region). At the same time, work is ongoing on the archaeological study of the Stanislav Fortress (Ivano-Frankivsk city). Since 2000, he has been the head of the Galician archaeological expedition of the V. Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, which explores ancient Halych. The most interesting archaeological objects of study were: the chronicle mound Halychyna Mohyla, three wooden palace complexes, the residential and economic development of the princely Galician prince and its fortifications. On the basis of many years of research, a new concept of the origin and evolution of Galicia and the Galician land was formed.
Conducted a historical and archaeological survey of the mountain Pip Ivan.
A number of scientific monographs were published on the above problems:
– “Oleshkiv Rotunda. Archaeology of wooden temples of the Galician land of the 12th – 13th centuries” (2005)
– “Archaeology of necropolises of Galicia and the Galician land. Nationalization. Christianization” (2006)
– “Prykarpattia: heritage of the ages” (2006)
– “Archaeology of the settlements of the Galician land. Galician-Bukovinian Prykarpattia. Research materials. 1976-2006.” (2008)
– “Antiquities of the Hutsul region. Sources from the ethnic history of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Catalog of historical and cultural monuments. Vol. II. Hillforts, castles, salt mining centers, ancient Transcarpathian roads” (2011)
The scientist’s monograph “Halych and the Small Galician Land of the 12th – 13th centuries. Historical topography of hillforts” (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2016), in which, based on a comprehensive analysis of written and archaeological sources, he investigated the urban development processes in Halych and the region of the Galician-Bukovyna Subcarpathia. This work became the fourth part of the author’s series “Archaeology of the Galician Land” (“Archaeology of Wooden Temples of the 12th – 13th Centuries. Oleshkiv Rotunda” (2005))
In 2017, B. Tomenchuk, in collaboration with V. Baran and Yu. Figurny, prepared the monograph “Ancient Galicia” (Kyiv, 2017). It published the results of field research in 1991-2000, conducted by the Galician Archaeological Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the V. Stefanyk Precarpathian National University and the National Reserve “Ancient Galicia”.
Associate Professor B. Tomenchuk closely cooperates with foreign archaeologists. In particular, together with scientists from the University of Zagreb (Croatia), scientific work is being conducted on the topic “Three Medieval Croatias and the Paths of Their Migration to the Balkans”. The problem of ethnocultural and ethnopolitical processes in the Eastern Carpathian region in the context of natural and climatic changes in Europe (Neolithic – Late Middle Ages) is being developed together with archaeologists from the University of Suceava (Romania).
The scientist is a member of the editorial board of the professional scientific journal “Carpathians: Man, Ethnicity, Civilization” and the bulletin “Student Historical Notebooks”.
These developments are of great importance for the scientific and educational and methodological support of the development of archaeological, historical and tourist education in Ukraine and its integration into international processes.
Igor Kochkin, a scientist-archaeologist, senior lecturer at the Department of Ethnology and Archaeology, is engaged in the study of the archaeology of the Carpathians. Since 2008, I.T. Kochkin has been a research fellow at the Educational and Scientific Institute of History, Ethnology and Archaeology of the Carpathians. The researcher’s field of scientific interests is ethnocultural processes in Central and Eastern Europe, in particular in the Carpathian region during the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods. From 2009 to 2015, he carried out archaeological excavations of the Trypillian culture settlements Khomyakivka I, Beleluia VI, and participated in the work of other archaeological expeditions. In particular, I.T. In 2013, Kochkin took part in the work of the international Ukrainian-Polish archaeological expedition of the Institute of History, Political Science and International Relations of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, the Institute of Archaeology of the NAS of Ukraine and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan near the village of Bukivna, Tlumac district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. The joint work was carried out within the framework of two grants: “Bukivna – elitarna nekropola kultury komarowskiej nad Dniestrem”. Sygnatura 2011/03/B/HS3/00839 (Performers: I.T. Kochkin, P. Makarovych (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Republic of Poland), S.D. Lysenko (Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Project duration 2012-2015) and “Katalog cmentarzysk kurhanowych kultury komarowskiej w dorzeczu górnego Dniestru (dawne vojewództwo stanisławowskie)” (Performers: I.T. Kochkin, P. Makarovych (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Republic of Poland), S.D. Lysenko (Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Project duration 2014-2016) The expedition conducted research on the mound burial ground of the Komarovsky culture in the village of Bukivna, Tlumach district.
Catalog of barrow burial grounds of the Komarov culture in the Upper Dniester basin (former Stanisław Voivodeship) / team of authors Przemysław Makarowicz, Ihor Koczkin, Jakub Niebieszczanski, Jan Romanyszyn, Mateusz Cwaliński, Robert Staniuk, Hubert Lepionka, Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke, Halyna Panahyd, Yuriy Boltryk, Vitaliy Rud, Adam Wawrusewicz, Taras Tkachuk, Rafal Skrzyniecki, Cezary Bagyrych. Poznan-Kyiv-Ivano-Frankivsk, 2016. The work was the result of a project funded by the Republic of Poland within the framework of the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education entitled “National Program for the Development of the Humanities” in 2013–2016 (grant 12H 12 001981)
Individual report on the scientific activities of Kochkin I. T. for 2019
Kostyuchok Petro Leontiyovych, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Ukrainian ethnologist, specialist in the field of history, theoretical issues of world and European ethnology, head of ethnographic expeditions to the Hutsul region.
Scientific topic within the working hours of the department “Ethno-national identity of Ukrainians of the Carpathians in 1914-1939”. A wide layer of the source base has been worked out. Heuristic-critical work was carried out in archival and library institutions in Austria, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Research internships were also completed at the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1.08.2012 – 31.07.2013, Bratislava, Slovakia (theme “Slovaks and Ukrainians in the ethnopolitics of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918-1938: a comparative analysis of theoretical constructs and their practical implementation”) and at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Jagiellonian University, 8-12.12.2014, Krakow, Poland.
In 2012, this topic was approved as a doctoral research topic. In the process of writing it, the methodological aspects of the research problem were outlined, attention was paid to the origins and formation of the ethno-national consciousness of the Ukrainians of the Carpathians in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the basic principles of the transformation of the national self-identification of the Carpathian Ukrainians in 1914-1920 were identified, the variability of national self-definition in the interwar period was characterized, and the Carpathian Ukrainians were shown as objects of ethno-politics in the 1920s-1930s.
As a result, the following conclusions were made. The absolute majority of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians – Boykivshchyna, Hutsulshchyna, Lemkivshchyna – were Ukrainians, who belonged to a greater extent to the Greek Catholic and Orthodox and to a lesser extent to the Roman Catholic confessions. Jews, Poles, Germans, Hungarians, Romanians, who made up a fairly significant segment of the population of the region, also lived in these territories.
The confessional affiliation of representatives of these ethnic communities mostly coincided with the confessional affiliation of Ukrainians, and this in turn created obstacles on the path of national self-identification. The Jews were an exception. At the same time, two main programs of national liberation developed among Ukrainians. The eastern part believed that it was possible in solving social problems, while the western part, which also took the Czech platform as a basis, believed exclusively in national ones, since this would consolidate the ethnic community. Based on these foundations, the identity of Ukrainians was modified. However, these changes were most clearly manifested in the territory of joint residence, which in the first third of the twentieth century was the Carpathian region.
Ukrainians of the Carpathians were characterized by a hybrid identity.
Svitlana Boyan-Hladka , Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Ukrainian ethnologist, specialist in practical ethnology of Ukraine.
Boyan-Hladka S.P. since 2012 has been the head of ethnographic expeditions to the Eastern Boykivshchyna, conducted 6 scientific ethnographic seasons, during which, in particular, the traditional culture of the population was studied.
The purpose of scientific research is the features of the spiritual culture of the Ukrainians of the Carpathian region and the specifics of the traditional festive and ritual culture in the Boykivshchyna. Based on the field research collected by S. Boyan-Hladka during ethnographic expeditions to the Eastern Boykivshchyna carried out during 2012 – 2018 (under the leadership of the author), the features of the spiritual and material culture of the Boykivs were determined. As a result of the ethnographic expedition of 2014 – 2018 to the border of the Eastern and Western Boykivshchyna (the villages of Vyshkiv and Senechiv, Dolynsky district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the villages of Yalynkuvaty, Verkhnia Rozhanka and Nyzhnia Rozhanka, Skoli district, Lviv region, the villages of Zavyyka, Titkivtsi, Pryslip, Novoselytsia, Mizhhirsky district, Zakarpattia region), an isolationist traditional culture was discovered in this region, which is a rarity in a modern globalized society. The chronological framework of the study covers the end of the 19th century – the present. The subject of the study is the origins, the primary basis of traditional customs, rituals, and elements of the material culture of the Boyki. The researcher assigns a large role and place in her research to pagan remnants in Christian calendar rituals – dualism.
The author’s scientific ethnographic research is of great importance for Ukrainian ethnological science and educational and methodological support for the development of ethnology in Ukraine in general and its integration into international processes. Boyan-Hladka S.P. is the editor-in-chief of the professional scientific journal “Carpathians: Man, Ethnicity, Civilization”.
Oksana Drohobytska , Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Ukrainian ethnologist. In 2007, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences on the topic “Culture and Life of the Ukrainian Rural Intelligentsia of Galicia (Late 19th Century – 1939)” (scientific supervisor – Professor M. Kugutyak). In 2008 – 2011, part-time – a researcher at the Institute of History, Ethnology and Archaeology of the Carpathians.
She pays great attention to the preservation and popularization of the historical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region. In 2019, she participated in the creation of the Shukhevych Family Residence Museum (Tyshkivtsi village, Horodenkiv district, Ivano-Frankivsk region). She supervises the museum practice of students at the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore, where she introduces them to the basics of exhibition and scientific work. She serves as the director of the Scientific Ethnographic Archive of the Department of Ethnology and Archaeology, and is a member of the jury at competitions of student scientific works of the Academy of Sciences.
The sphere of scientific interests covers the problems of theory and methodology of field ethnographic research, the history of everyday life, the life of the population of Galicia in the 19th – 20th centuries, the transformation of traditional culture in the conditions of modern globalization processes. More than 80 articles and scientific investigations of the researcher, 16 educational and methodological publications are devoted to this topic. In 2014-2019 alone, O. Drohobytska took part in 29 international and all-Ukrainian scientific conferences, a round table on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera (Munich, 2019). Author of the monograph “Tradition and Modernity: The Life of the Ukrainian Rural Intelligentsia of Galicia (late 19th – 30s of the 20th century)” (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2014), dedicated to the study of the sources of formation, financial situation, spiritual and material culture of the intellectual elite of the region.
Co-author of 5 collective scientific publications: “ZUNR 1918–1923: Illustrated History” (Lviv – Ivano-Frankivsk, 2008), “Pokuttya: Historical and Ethnographic Essay” (Lviv, 2010), “Institute of History and Political Science: 70 Years of Pedagogical, Scientific and Public Activity” (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2010), “Ukrainian Euromaidan. Prykarpattia Dimension” (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2015), “Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918–1923. Encyclopedia” (2018, 2019).
Iryna Solonets , Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Ethnology and Archaeology, Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations, State Higher Educational Institution “Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University”.
Since September 2016, she has been working as Deputy Head of the Educational and Methodological Department of the university, and since August 20, 2019, she has been heading the department. Also in 2019, she became the head of the trade union of university-wide departments. Member of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the university.
She has been teaching since 2010 (she worked as an assistant, and since 2017 – as an associate professor of the Department of Ethnology and Archaeology part-time). She teaches courses for master’s students in the specialty 032 “History and Archaeology (Ethnology)” – “Methodology of Field Research”, “General Ethnological Mythology”, “Ethnology of Europe” and the elective course “Ethnology” for students of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Arts in the specialty 024 “Choreography”.
Since 2016, she has been a member of the jury of the Small Academy of Sciences every year in the section of world history, ethnology and archeology.
In 2019, she completed an internship at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv. The scientific consultant was Academician, Doctor of Historical Sciences Pavlyuk S.P.
The author of many scientific articles on the ethnographic study of the Hutsul region. Participated in the publication of the collective monographs “Antiquities of the Hutsul Region” in 2 volumes and “The Great Hermitage in the Carpathians” (in 3 volumes):
– compiler of parts III and IV, as well as the personal index and index of churches and monasteries in the second volume of the monograph “The Great Hermitage in the Carpathians; in 3 volumes. Vol. 2: The Great Hermitage in documents and materials of the 17th – 21st centuries / editor-in-chief M.V. Kugutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2015. 514 p. ( pp. 386–439; 492–503; 511–512)”.
– compiler of the personal, geographical and church-monastic indexes in the third volume of the monograph “The Great Hermitage in the Carpathians; in 3 volumes. Volume 3: Kugutyak M. The Great Skete in Markova Desert: a Ukrainian spiritual and cultural-historical phenomenon. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2017. 576 p. ( pp. 546–573)”.
– Compiler of the nominal, geographical and church-monastic indexes in the first volume of the monograph “Hoshev Monastery of the Mother of God on Yasna Gora in the Carpathians. In 3 volumes. Volume 1: Hoshev Monastery in written historical sources of the 16th – 20th centuries / editor-in-chief M.V. Kugutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2018. pp. 527–551”.
– Solonets I. Hutsul economy in ethnographic studies of the late 19th – first half of the 20th century. Hutsul region over the centuries: history and culture. Materials of the international scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the socio-cultural society “Hutsulshchyna” in Lviv (Lviv, January 30, 2016) / edited by O. Maslyanyk and P. Siredzhuk. Lviv: Liga-Press, 2016. pp. 171–182.
– Solonets I. Castles of the Galician Hutsulshchyna in the scientific works of Petro Siredzhuk // Hutsulshchyna – Slavic Atlantis: history, ethnoculture, tourism, personal studies. Collection of materials of the international scientific and practical conference in honor of Professor Petro Siredzhuk on the occasion of his 70th birthday (Ivano-Frankivsk – Kosmach, November 22, 2019). – Krakow – Ivano-Frankivsk – Kosmach: “Wierchy”, 2019. pp. 538–546.