Ukrainian Scientists at War

In Ukrainian Scientists at War, we commemorate Ukrainian scientists who have lost their lives because of the Russian war against Ukraine. We seek to preserve every name in the list of Ukrainian scientists killed by Russia. And we tell the story of each scientist, thereby creating a collective portrait of memory for the future. 

Author: Dr. Khrystyna Semeryn, researcher, journalist and writer. See her personal page.
Co-organizers: Dr. Oleksiy Boldyriev, neurobiologist, science communicator and historian of science; My.science.ua media platform and Unia Scientifica NGO. We are grateful for the financial support from the YURiA-PHARM Group of Companies.

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Memorial portraits:

• Dr. Bizhan Sharopov, biologist and military, Hero of Ukraine (Kyiv)
• Dr. Mykhailo Hamkalo, soil scientist, tourism lecturer and practitioner, military (Lviv)
• Professor Vasyl Kladko, physicist, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv)
• Volodymyr Tretiak, entomologist and military (Ivano-Frankivsk)
• Kseniia Ivanova, biologist and immunologist, PhD student (Zaporizhzhia)
• Dr. Yurii Kovalenko, archaeologist and historian, military (Hlukhiv)
• Dr. Volodymyr Kozlovskyi, soil scientist and military (Lviv)
• Dr. Andriy Svyashchuk, philosopher and engineer, military (Kharkiv)
• Volodymyr Trush, philologist and military (Lviv)
• Dr. Andriy Semenovych, political scientist and historian, military (Ostroh)
• Mykyta Bilostotskyi, historian and museum practitioner, military (Kharkiv)
• Mykola Maiorchak, historian and museum practitioner, military (Lviv-Vovkiv)

(To be continued)

Analysis, research and public activities

• Oleksiy Boldyriev, Khrystyna Semeryn. “Amid the mourning for Ukrainian losses: perished scholars mirror strengths and challenges for rebuilding science.” Book chapter, 2026. Forthcoming.
• «Українські вчені на війні»: пам’ять як спротив [“Ukrainian Scientists at War”: Memory as Resistance]. Khrystyna Semeryn for Detector media. (Ukr)
• 16 Ukrainian Female Scientists Were Killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Translated from Ukrainian by Anton Danylchenko.
• Тіні забутих учених. «Це просто нескінченний об’єм досліджень, який треба провести, і бажано на вчора» [Shadows of Forgotten Scientists: “It’s simply an endless amount of research that needs to be done, preferably yesterday”]. Olena Struk for LB.ua about research of Oleksiy Boldyriev, Ksenia Hulak, Oleksiy Ihnatenko and Olha Vasylenko. (Ukr)
• Oleksiy Boldyriev, «Науковці української академії наук у період соціальних криз 1918–1937 років» [“Scientists of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences during the period of social crises, 1918–1937” ]. Conference presentation. XX Biographical Readings (Kyiv, 5 June 2024). (Ukr)
• A conversation with Oleksiy Boldyriev about the fates of scholars of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1921–1936) on the Espreso TV channel (Ukr)
• Нам треба поіменно згадати науковців, яких знищили під час сталінських репресій — біолог Олексій Болдирєв [“We need to remember by name the scientists killed during the Stalinist repressions” – biologist Oleksiy Boldyriev]. Nauka jak po maslu podcast, Hromadske Radio. (Ukr)
• 16 українських науковиць загинули у російсько-українській війні. Моя наука. My.science.ua. (Ukr)
• Наукові історії Олексія Болдирєва [Oleksiy Boldyriev’s Scientific Stories]. YouTube-channel. (Ukr)

_{The poster was presented at the international BioGeNext Conference (17–20 September 2024, Kyiv). Designed and produced by the conference organizers and our partners, the YURiA-PHARM Group of Companies.}