Valeriy Smoliy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Valeriy Smoliy

Soviet journalist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1950

Place of Birth: Avratin, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: politician, historian, editor-in-chief, public figure, director, medievalist

Nationality: Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Valeriy Smoliy

  • Valeriy Smoliy (Ukrainian: ??????? ?????????? ??????) is a Ukrainian academician, historian, director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. Smoliy was born on 1 January 1950 in a village Avratyn, Volochysk Raion, Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast. In 1970 he graduate the historical faculty of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Pedagogic Institute.
  • After that Smoliy worked as a rural teacher in schools of Ternopil Oblast and a teacher assistant in the Nizhyn Pedagogic Institute. Since 1972 Smoliy works at the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine.
  • In 1975 he defended his candidate thesis "Union of the right-bank Ukraine with Ukrainian lands within the Russian state" (Ukrainian: ????'??????? ????????????? ??????? ? ???????????? ??????? ? ?????? ?????????? ???????) and in 1985 his doctorate thesis "Social consciousness of Ukrainian national movements participants (second half of the 17th-18th centuries)" (Ukrainian: ????????? ?????????? ????????? ???????? ????? ??????? (????? ???????? XVII–XVIII ??.)).
  • Since 1986 Smoliy was heading one of departments of the institute.
  • In 1991 he was elected a deputy director of the institute.
  • In 1992 he was admitted to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a corresponding member. Since 1993 Smoliy is a director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine.
  • In 1995 he became a full member, academician, of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1997–1999 Smoliy served as a vice-Prime Minister on humanitarian issues in the government of Valeriy Pustovoitenko.

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