Virtual book exhibition "Pavlo Paraskevich: A life dedicated to science and education"

Paraskevych Pavlo Kindratovych (June 30, 1921 – March 20, 2022) was born in the village of Lapkivtsi, Chornoostriv district, Khmelnytskyi region, into a peasant family. In 1938, after graduating from the Odesa Mechanical and Technological Technical School of the Sugar Industry, he served in the Soviet Army. During the years of the Second World War, Pavlo Kindratovych fought as part of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Front. He participated in the liberation of Western Ukraine, Transcarpathia, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. He was awarded the orders of the "Order of the Patriotic War" 2nd Class, "For Courage," and medals "For Bravery," "For Victory over Germany," etc.

After demobilization, in 1946, he entered the Uzhhorod State University in the Faculty of Philology (Ukrainian Department), which he graduated with honors in 1951. After graduating from the university, he worked in schools in the city of Uzhhorod and the Khmelnytskyi region and studied in correspondence postgraduate studies at the T. Shevchenko Institute of Literature. After completing postgraduate studies in 1968, according to a directive from the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian SSR, he worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer of Ukrainian literature at the N.K. Krupska Kherson State Pedagogical Institute. In 1974, he defended his candidate dissertation on the topic "Heroics of the Great Patriotic War in the Ukrainian novel of the 60s."

From 1977, for 11 years, Pavlo Kindratovych headed the Department of Ukrainian Literature, which was repeatedly a winner of socialist competition. In 1978, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the Department of Ukrainian Literature.

Until 2003, he worked at KSU as an associate professor of the Department of Ukrainian Literature and the Department of Ukrainian Literary Studies.

Pavlo Kindratovych was actively engaged in scientific work; he published manuals "M.M. Kotsiubynsky: Life and Work in Portraits, Illustrations, Photographs, Documents," "Mykola Cherniavsky: A Life and Creative Path," "Pages of Literary Kherson Region" (2 volumes), "Oles Honchar and the Kherson Region," and over 180 literary publications. He was published in the journal "Ukrainian Language and Literature in School" and the republican collection "Ukrainian Literary Studies." He was a member of the editorial board of the "Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation."

Paraskevych Pavlo Kindratovych devoted great attention to social work; he was a member of the methodological council and a lecturer for the regional "Znannia" (Knowledge) society.

For many years of fruitful work, in 1981, Paraskeyvych Pavlo Kindratovych was awarded the "Excellent Worker of National Education of the Ukrainian SSR" badge. For courage shown during the Second World War and many years of fruitful work in the field of research in literature and local history of Kherson for the benefit of the Kherson city territorial community, on August 30, 2017, he was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the City of Kherson." By decision of the university's academic council dated May 17, 2018, he was awarded the title "Honorary Professor of KSU."

Paraskevych Pavlo Kindratovych was awarded the honorary distinction "Golden Medal of KSU."

The memory of Pavlo Kindratovych will live in the hearts of all who knew him.

We honor you! We remember! We mourn!

 1. Paraskevych, P. K. Pages of Literary Kherson Region: articles / P. K. Paraskevych. – Kherson: Aylant, 2001. – Vol. 2. – 58 p.

2. Paraskevych, P. K. Pages of Literary Kherson Region (for the 225th anniversary of Kherson): articles / P. K. Parastkevych. – Kherson, 2003. – 82 p. 

 3. Paraskevych, P. K. Pages of Literary Kherson Region / Pavlo Kindratovych Paraskevych. – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2008. – 112 p.

 4. Paraskevych, P. K. Oles Honchar and the Kherson Region: articles, reflections, memories / P. K. Paraskevych. – Kherson: KSU Publishing House, 2004. – 112 p.

 5. Paraskevych, P. K. Articles, theses, essays, interviews... / P. K. Paraskevych. – Kherson: KSU, 2017. – 246 p.

 6. Paraskev<0xC2><0xA0>vych, P. Bridges of connection and friendship: [the connection of O. Honchar with the Ukrainian diaspora and the foreign world] / P. Paraskevych // Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation (Center for the Study of the Ukrainian Diaspora): lit.-sci. collection – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2007. – Vol. 3. – pp. 30-39.

 7. Paraskevych, P. Mykola Cherniavsky in the eyes of critics / P. Paraskevych // Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation (Center for the $\dots$ Ukrainian Diaspora): lit.-sci. collection – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2007. – Vol. 4. – pp. 90-98.

 8. Paraskevych, P. K. Oles Honchar on Kherson and its residents / P. K. Paraskevych // Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation (Center for the Study of the Ukrainian Diaspora): lit.-sci. collection – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2008. – Vol. 5. – pp. 60-63.

 9. Paraskevych, P. Pavlo Tychyna: lifetime and posthumous assessments, discussions, reflections on the poet / P. Paraskevych // Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation (Center for the Study of the Ukrainian Diaspora): lit.-sci. collection – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2010. – Vol. 7. – pp. 129-141.

 10. Yastreba, N. Face-to-face with Oles Honchar: [about the meeting of students from the Faculty of Philology and Journalism of Kherson State University with literary scholar P. K. Paraskevych, during which he presented his book «Articles, theses, essays, interviews»] / N. Yastreba // Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation (Center for the Study of the Ukrainian Diaspora): lit.-sci. collection – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2017. – Vol. 13. – pp. 276-280.

 11. Paraskevych, P. The Autobiographical Nature of Oles Honchar's «Diaries» / P. Paraskevych // Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation (Center for the Study of the Ukrainian Diaspora): lit.-sci. collection – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2018. – Vol. 14. – pp. 67-69.

 12. Paraskevych, P. The Star of Mykola Vasylenko: a word about a friend / P. Paraskevych // Bulletin of the Tavria Foundation (Center for the Study of the Ukrainian Diaspora): lit.-sci. collection – Kyiv; Kherson: Prosvita, 2019. – Vol. 15. – pp. 77-80.

Articles  

1. Paraskevych, P. Poet of Unbreakable Courage: [V. O. Zabashtanskyi, including the connection to the Kherson region] / Pavlo Kindratovych Paraskevych // Novyi Chas. – 2010. – Nov. 18 (No. 46). – p. 7.
2. Paraskevych, P. One fact from the life of a «Tatar-Zaporozhian» futurist: [artist D. Burluka] / Pavlo Kindratovych Paraskevych // Gryvna SV. – 2007. – Aug. 10 (No. 33). – p. 13.
3. Paraskevych, P. Oleksandr Dovzhenko on himself and our region: (diary pages) / Pavlo Kindratovych Paraskevych // Novyi Chas. – 2010. – Dec. 9 (No. 49). – p. 7.
4. Paraskevych, P. In memory of a friend: [K. O. Lavrunova, former head of the Dept. of Ukrainian Lit., Kherson Ped. Inst., scholar, writer] / Pavlo Kindratovych Paraskevych // Dzherela. – 2007. – June 15 (No. 11). – p. 7.
5. Paraskevych, P. Memories of Dmitry Markovich / Pavlo Kindratovych Paraskevych // Konstants: Alm. Soc. Res. – Kherson, 1997. – No. 2 (8). – pp. 20-22.
6. Paraskevych, P. I belong to humanity: [about the Ukrainian writer O. P. Dovzhenko] / Pavlo Kindratovych Paraskevych // Study of Ukrainian Language and Literature – 2008. – September (No. 25). – pp. 26-29.

  About him

1. Continuous movement forward // Novyi Den. – 2016. – June 29 (No. 2<0xC2>7). – p. 24. – For the 95th anniversary of the literary scholar's birth.

2. Oleksiuk, O. V. Builder of Ukraine / Oleh Vasyliovych Oleksiuk // Kultura i Zhyttia. – 2018. – July 27 (No. 30). – p. 12. – About the Kherson literary scholar P. K. Paraskevych, who was awarded the «Builder of Ukraine» medal on June 30, 2018, in accordance with the decision of the Central Board of the All-Ukrainian Society «Prosvita» named after Taras Shevchenko.

3. Oleksiuk, O. V. On the life path of Pavlo Kindratovych / Oleh Vasyliovych Oleksiuk // Slovo Prosvity. – 2018. – July 12-18 (No. 28). – p. 7.

4. On the conferral of the title «Honorary Citizen of the City of Kherson»: decision of the Kherson City Council dated Aug. 30, 2017 // Pryamo v ruky. – 2017. – Sept. 15 (No. 37). – pp. 4-5. – The title was conferred upon the Kherson literary scholar P. K. Paraskevych.

5. A bright personality: an essay on the life and work of Pavlo Paraskevych // Shcherba T. The Light of Spirituality in Word and Sculpture: essays, reviews, feedback / Taisia Shcherba. – Kherson, 2015. – pp. 56-69.