Ethnologist, historian, research associate at the Department of "Archival Scientific Collections of Manuscripts and Audio Recordings" at the M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He received his higher education at the Institute of History, Ethnology, and Law of Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University, earning his Master's degree in history, a qualification as a teacher of Ukrainian studies, and a certification as an organizer of tourism and local history activities. He studied in the graduate program of the "Ukrainian Ethnological Center" department at theM. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and is currently finalizing his dissertation research on intercultural interactions in the Eastern Podillia region of the Ukrainian-Moldovan borderland.

He has many years of experience in fieldwork recording ethnographic and oral history information, including topics related to the Holodomor, the realities of life under German and Romanian occupation regimes in Ukraine, and the fates of former Ostarbeiters during World War II. He is currently documenting the contemporary wartime daily life of Ukrainians during the large-scale Russian invasion. He is the author of over 40 scholarly works published in Ukraine and abroad. Co-editor of the seven-volume ethnographic source collection "The Ethnographic Image of Modern Ukraine", including Vol. 1, "Oral History" (Kyiv, 2021), and a member of the editorial board for Vol. 12, "Everyday Culture During the Russian-Ukrainian War" (Kyiv, 2024), of the same series. During 2024–2025, he was a co-executor of the NAS of Ukraine research project "Contemporary Wartime Daily Life of Kyiv Region Communities: A Cultural-Anthropological Dimension," as well as co-editor and literary editor of the source collection "Kyiv Region Unbroken: Eyewitness Accounts of the Russian-Ukrainian War" (Kyiv, 2025).

Research interests: ethnology, sociocultural anthropology, ethnocultural interactions, the Ukrainian-Moldovan border region, the cultural heritage of Ukrainians in Moldova, oral history, studies of memory and the cultural landscape, and the contemporary wartime daily life of Ukrainians.

As part of the LivArch scholarship for documenting and archiving the war, he will work at the Center for Urban History on analyzing practices of (non)disclosure of sensitive data in print source publications and online platforms, based on the results of research and documentation projects carried out in Ukraine from 2022 to 2026.