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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2018, 1 (139), 5–9

UDK 930.2:[94-057.4:001](477)С.Павлюк

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.01.005

Received  26.12.2017

A SCIENTIST AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZER

Kyrchiv Roman Fedorovych, scientist-folklorist, ethnologist and literary scholar, doctor of philological sciences (1980), professor (1994), full member of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society (1992), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School (1997), Honored figure of science and technology of Ukraine (2008).

Abstract. Scientific work of Stepan Pavliuk, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, who today is in a particularly productive time for a scientist-humanist, is briefly characterized.

 Keywords: modern methodology of research, scientific supervisor, author of numerous articles, monographs, director of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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Holovats’kyj, Ya. (1884). Velyka Khorvatiia abo Halychsko-Karpats’ka Rus’. Pysannia M. Shashkevycha, I. Vahylevycha i Ya. Holovats’koho. L’viv. S. 233 [in Russian].

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