Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The article describes the scientific and organizational work of K.H. Voblyi’s (1976 – 1947) at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. It uses a great amount of documentary sources unknown facts from his academic life are covered. Teaching activity of K.H. Voblyi in Taurida University under the guidance of academician V.I. Vernadskyi has been studied. Both scientific activity of the scholar (in the Commission on the Study of Natural Productive Forces) and organizational one (while delivering lectures on the development of Crimean productive forces to citizens) have been characterized. Little-known facts concerning K.H. Voblyi arrest after the Soviet regime establishment in the Crimea have been analyzed. Scientific and organizational activity of K.H. Voblyi in Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, in particular, his contribution to the development of economic and geographical science, has been characterized. The scholar organized the Committee for National Ukrainian Economy Study and Seminar for National Economy Study; those were the centers of economic and historical research. Scientific and research activities of the academician in the Committee to study productive forces of Ukraine and natural and historical zoning have been analyzed. The scholar co-operated with following prominent scientists in the field of history and economics: L.M. Yasnopolskyi, M.V. Ptukha, A.S. Syniavskyi, M.P. Vasylenko and others. Situation with Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in late 1920s has been analyzed; position of K.H. Voblyi concerning the activity of the collective of scientists has been characterized. Documents demonstrating ideological and administrative pressure upon the scholar have been studied; the way the Soviet power behaved toward him has been specified.
Source: Zaporizhzhia Historical Review
Author: M. Shevchenko
Institution: Dnipro University of Technology
Language: Ukrainian
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2999415985