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September 4, 1920

Oleksander Marynych served as the Ukrainian SSR's minister of education for most of the 1970s (1971-1979), surviving the ouster of Soviet Ukraine's controversial premier, Petro Shelest, in 1972, continuing to work for Mr. Shelest's successor, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky. Mr. Marynych is a geographer and geomorphologist and a member of Ukraine's Academy of Science since 1969.

He graduated from Kazan (Russia) University in 1942, and after World War II, he taught at Kyiv University, serving as dean of the geography faculty (1956-1868) and head of the department of physical geography. In 1964 he was elected president of the Geographical Society of the Ukrainian SSR. Mr. Marynych specializes in physical geography and geomorphology of Ukraine and the rational use of the environment. He has written two books on the physical geography of Polissia (1982) and co-authored books on the physical geography of Ukraine (1985) and environmental protection of the Middle Dnipro region (1986). He is the editor-in-chief of the three-volume "Heohrafichna Ensyklopedia Ukrainy" (Geographic Encyclopedia of Ukraine), which began to appear in 1989 in Kyiv.

Source: "Marynych, Oleksander," Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 31, 1997, No. 35, Vol. LXV

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