Olena Cherniakhivska

Olena Cherniakhivska

National Preserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra"


  • Research topic:
    Local History of Ukraine Projects: History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR
    Period:
    August – October 2023
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She is the head of the Publishing Department at the National Preserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra". Prior to that, she held a number of academic positions for a long time. She is working on a monograph that describes the process of creating a unique project – the multi-volume book called "History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR." She also deals with issues related to the history of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Reserve, the history of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and biographical studies.

Olena studied history at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2021, she defended her dissertation "Reference and Encyclopedic Projects on the Local History of Ukraine in Ukrainian Historical Science in the Second Half of the 1950s - Early 1980s: Organizational Forms, Ideological Functions, and Practical Implementation" at the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. She is the author of 40 scientific and popular science publications and is responsible for preparing 60 publications in the reserve. She is the compiler, author of the foreword, scientific comments, and research on the architectural historian, first president of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR – Serhii Bezsonov for the scientific monograph called "Academician Serhii Bezsonov. Architecture of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in its Historical Development" (2015).