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Thursday, December 18, 2025
Young Kherson residents are interested in history
As part of the career guidance work, an excursion for IDP children from Kherson was held at the Archaeological Museum of Kherson State University. The informative story of the head of the museum, Oleksandr Viktorovych Cheremisin, about the ancient cities and settlements of the Northern Black Sea region and about the romance of archaeological research greatly interested the visitors. The opportunity to touch the artifacts of the collection of the Archaeological Museum of KhSU, feel the breath of history and better understand the development of civilizations will be remembered by teenagers for a long time.
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
The professor conducted a tour of the Archaeological Museum of KhSU
After successfully defending their qualification theses, applicants for the second (master's) level of higher education at the Faculty of Psychology, History and Sociology, specialties 014 Secondary Education specialization 014.03 History and Civic Education and 032 History and Archaeology, together with teachers of the Department of History, Archaeology and Teaching Methods and the head of the certification commission, visited the Archaeological Museum of Kherson State University. We remind you that the priceless exhibits were saved and taken from Kherson to Ivano-Frankivsk during the war. The visitors were warmly welcomed by the head of the museum, professor of the department Oleksandr Viktorovych Cheremisin, who spoke about the culture, way of life and beliefs of ancient civilizations that have long inhabited the South of Ukraine. While examining the artifacts, those present also learned which ancient sites and settlements were excavated by the Archaeological Expedition of KhSU.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Masters in History defended their qualification theses
Within the week of full-time study, on the basis of the Ivano-Frankivsk office of Kherson State University, applicants for the second (master's) level of higher education in the specialties 014 Secondary Education, specialization 014.03 History and Civic Education and 032 History and Archaeology defended their qualification works (projects). The certification commission noted that the works were performed at a high level, distinguished by the depth of scientific analysis, originality of approaches and significant practical value. Applicants demonstrated high-quality training, deep knowledge and the ability to present the results of their work, which is an important step on the path to scientific and career growth.
Dear masters, we congratulate you on this significant event in your life and wish that the acquired knowledge will become a powerful foundation for your further professional growth, the implementation of your boldest ideas, and new successes!
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
A meeting of guarantors of educational programs of KhSU and KNUVS was held
On December 17, an interuniversity meeting of guarantors of educational programs of the specialty Secondary Education, subject specialization History and Civic Education of the first (bachelor's) level was held. The speaker from the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University was the guarantor of the OP, Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of Teaching History Korolko Andriy Zinoviyovych, who presented the vision of building a structural-logical line of studying historical local history and positive practices of teaching local history disciplines at the OP. The experience of KhSU was presented by the guarantor of the OP, Head of the Department of History, Archaeology and History of Teaching, Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor Natalya Kuzovova. The successful exchange of experience initiated the continuation of interuniversity meetings of guarantors of the first and second levels of higher education of this specialty at the beginning of the new semester 2025-2026 academic year. We are also happy to invite fellow guarantors and members of the support groups to discuss current issues.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
A guest lecture was held for KhSU applicants
On December 17, 2026, a guest lecture by Andriy Zinoviyovych Korolko, PhD in History, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of Teaching History of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, was held on the topic: "Continuity of Research and Search Local History Work of General Secondary and Higher Education Institutions" for applicants of the KhDU specialties 014 Secondary Education, specializations 014.03 History and Civic Education and 032 History and Archaeology of the bachelor's and master's levels. At the beginning of the lecture, the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, History and Sociology, Doctor of Social Sciences, Professor Iryna Vasylivna Shaposhnykova, introducing the lecturer, thanked for the cooperation of the KNUVS. The lecture raised several important issues of involving young people in the study of historical local history and the role of the university in the preservation and spread of the local history movement, aroused great interest among applicants and colleagues. Andriy Zinoviyovych outlined possible areas of cooperation between KhDU and KNUVD. We sincerely thank you for this opportunity and cooperation!
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
The professor of the department received a letter of gratitude from the head of the Kherson Regional Council!
The rector of Kherson State University, Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Spivakovskyi, presented the Gratitude of the Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council to the professor of the Department of History, Archeology and Teaching Methods, Serhiy Grigorovich Vodotytsya, as well as memorable gifts with the symbols of KhSU.
We sincerely congratulate you, Serhiy Grigorovich, on your well-deserved distinction! This award is another confirmation of your high professionalism, tireless work and significant contribution to the development of modern science. Your intellect and diligence are a real example for us. We wish that your scientific field will be generous with new discoveries, and your work will always be appreciated by the state and colleagues.
New heights and creative inspiration to you!
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
A landmark meeting of historians from two universities
A landmark event was the meeting with fellow historians from the Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University. The main purpose of the meeting was to present the universities' scientific publications for 2025 and discuss plans for scientific cooperation for the following year.
In the welcoming walls of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, the Kherson historians were met by the Dean of the Faculty, Ihor Hurak, who emphasized the importance of cooperation between historians from different regions.
This time, Natalya Kuzovova, Head of the Department of History, Archaeology and Teaching Methods of the Kherson State University, presented the paper edition of the reference book "Kherson: Liberated Map", which was published in 2025 and presented it as a gift to Carpathian colleagues.
A real discovery was two new books by Tetyana Madryha, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Certification has begun for history majors
Today, within the week of full-time study, certification has begun for applicants for the second (master's) level of higher education in the specialty 014 Secondary education, specialization 014.03 History and civic education. Applicants take a written certification exam in historical disciplines and methods of their teaching. Traditionally, at the beginning of the exam, applicants and the certification commission headed by the candidate of historical sciences, a teacher of the highest category of the professional college of the Kyiv University of Intellectual Property and Law Lyudmila Andriivna Savenok, acting dean of the faculty of psychology, history and sociology Iryna Vasylivna Shaposhnikova and the first vice-rector of Kherson State University Serhiy Arkadiyovych Omelchuk congratulated applicants. Serhiy Arkadiyovych wished applicants success in passing the exam and urged them to continue their studies at KhSU at the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education.
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Monday, December 15, 2025
During the week of full-time study, the head of the department met with colleagues from Vasyl Stefanyk Kyiv National University
Today, a week of full-time study for teachers and applicants of the Department of History, Archaeology and Teaching Methods began at the Ivano-Frankivsk office of Kherson State University. As part of this event, the head of the department, Natalia Kuzovava, met with colleagues from the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Halyna Voloshchuk, director of the Center for Professional Career and Lifelong Education and professor of the Department of Ukrainian Philology, Faculty of Philology, Oleksandr Soletsky. The colleagues from Ivano-Frankivsk together developed a number of computer and board games for students and applicants, and were happy to share their experience with Natalia Mykolaivna. "This wonderful experience is worth scaling and spreading, and we hope that the trails of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kherson regions will now connect not only in real life, but also in an educational gaming environment! It is important to feel support and be inspired by each other's example, to move forward despite difficulties, to surpass yourself, and to reborn your world again and again in place of ruins!", - noted Natalia Kuzovova.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The final event of the first stage of the defense of research papers of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine took place
The final event of the 1st stage of the All-Ukrainian competition-defense of scientific and research works of students - members of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the 2025-2026 academic year was held. It was a scientific conference, at which the contestants were able to present their works and take part in the discussion. The participants demonstrated their skills in discussing problematic issues in the field of archeology, historical local history, the history of Ukraine and world history, the will to win and oratory. We wish you victories in the next stage!
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Wednesday, December 03, 2025
Poster defense of research papers of the MAAS took place
The poster defense of the participants of the 1st stage of the All-Ukrainian competition-defense of scientific and research works of students - members of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the 2025-2026 academic year was held. The members of the jury were scientists of KhSU: Kuzovova Natalya Mykolaivna, Batenko Hanna Vyacheslavivna and Mykhailenko Halyna Mykolaivna. The Kherson city branch of the MAS worked in the sections: archeology, local history, History of Ukraine and world history. We wish the participants further victories!
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
Natalia Kuzovova participated in ASEEES2025 in Washington
The 57th ASEEES Annual Convention was held in Washington, D.C., November 20–23. Natalia Kuzovova participated in the panel “Memory, Narratives, and Information Warfare: Sociocultural and Historical Dimensions of the Holodomor” and presented a paper “War with the Memory of the Holodomor in the Context of the Modern Russia-Ukraine War.” In her speech, Natalia Kuzovova analyzed the mechanisms of denial and distortion of the memory of the Holodomor, which intensified in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In addition to traditional approaches, modern practices include the destruction of memorials, the imposition of Soviet historical narratives, and the displacement of memory carriers through war and emigration. The study of these processes allows us to trace how historical memory is becoming a key battlefield in the information war and what role it plays in the modern opposition to the destruction of Ukrainian identity.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
An All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference was held dedicated to the 3rd anniversary of the Liberation of the city of Kherson from Russian occupation and the 108th anniversary of KhSU
Today, November 11, 2025, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the 3rd anniversary of the Liberation of the city of Kherson from Russian occupation and the 108th anniversary of Kherson State University was held at Kherson State University. The event brought together scientists, researchers, teachers, postgraduates and students from different regions of Ukraine and foreign university centers. The participants of the conference were representatives of São Paulo (Brazil), Lublin (Poland), as well as scientists from Kyiv, Kherson, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Nizhyn, Lviv and a number of other cities of Ukraine. Such a wide geography testified to the international and interdisciplinary nature of scientific cooperation in the field of research of military experience, occupation and liberation of Kherson and the right-bank Kherson region.
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Friday, November 07, 2025
KhSU graduate students received certificates
On November 7, Kherson State University held a ceremonial presentation of certificates to graduates of the third (educational and scientific) level of the first year of training. We congratulate the first-year postgraduate student of the specialty B9 History and Archaeology Vil Svyatoslav Oleksiyovych and his scientific supervisor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of History, Archaeology and Teaching Methods Cheremisin Oleksandr Viktorovych on this significant event and wish them fruitful cooperation. Oleksandr Viktorovych wished his protégé to carry out his dissertation research with inspiration and responsibility, to understand the complexities of identifying the South of Ukraine, and to defend a major dissertation.
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Monday, October 27, 2025
Historians joined the radio dictation of national unity
Today, October 27, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language - a holiday of the development of the Ukrainian language. On this day, it has become a good tradition to take part in the All-Ukrainian Radio Dictation of National Unity. This year, not only in Ukraine, but also from other parts of the world, teachers and students of the Faculty of Psychology, History and Sociology and, in particular, the Department of History, Archaeology and Teaching Methods joined in writing the radio dictation. This action aims to unite as many people as possible around Ukraine around the world and popularize the Ukrainian language.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
The head of the department took part in an international conference
On October 15, 2025, Natalia Kuzovova, Head of the Department of History, Archaeology, and Teaching Methods, presented a paper titled “Memory of the Holodomor and the Russian-Ukrainian War” within the panel “Russian/Soviet Imperial Continuity and the Politics of Annihilation: From the Holodomor to the Russia-Ukraine War and the Battle of Memory” at the international conference The War and Beyond: Perspectives on Ukrainian Culture and Society, hosted by the University of Bergen (Norway) with the support of Ukrainett+ (https://uni.oslomet.no/ukrainett/) and the Norwegian Research Council (https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/).
The event was held under the patronage of the Rectorate of the University of Bergen and the Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Norway. The presentation addressed urgent issues related to the destruction of memorials to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the impact of the war on the preservation of the Holodomor’s historical memory, and the appeal for the recognition of the Holodomor as an act of genocide.
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Friday, October 10, 2025
Natalia Kuzovova - member of the commission for the rehabilitation of victims of repressions
The regional commission for the rehabilitation of victims of repressions of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917–1991 has resumed its work in the Kherson region. Its key goal is to restore the honorable name of people who became victims of the Soviet penal system. At the first meeting of the renewed commission, the case of Serhiy Fedorovych Lavirko was considered, the story of which was presented by his great-granddaughter.
The 37-year-old man was arrested in 1937. Absurd accusations of “counter-revolutionary” agitation and criticism of the Stalinist constitution became the basis for the sentence. An extrajudicial body – the so-called “troika” of the NKVD – sent him to camps for 10 years without the right to defense. He died six months later.
Only 27 years later did a Soviet court overturn the sentence “due to the absence of elements of a crime,” but the family never saw full rehabilitation.
Under the chairmanship of Dementiy Bely, the members of the commission studied the archival criminal case in detail and unanimously formulated substantiated proposals for the National Rehabilitation Commission to recognize Serhiy Lavirko as rehabilitated.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Natalia Kuzovova took part in an international online seminar
On September 30, 2025, the head of the department, Natalya Mykolaivna Kuzovova, joined the international online seminar "The Holodomor in the Light of the Theory of Famine". Natalya Mykolaivna delivered a report "Robert William Fogel (Robert William Fogel, 1926—2013) and his "theory of technophysiological evolution"". The event was organized by the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine. The event aimed to activate, based on the principles of interdisciplinary interaction, discussions among scientists on the potential of methodological approaches and methodological techniques for the study and scientific understanding of the crime of the Holodomor - in the context of Ukrainian, as well as global, human history.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
The associate professor of the department held an open lecture
Associate Professor of the Department, Candidate of Historical Sciences Mykhaylenko Galyna Mykolaivna held an open lecture for second-year, second (master's) level higher education students in the discipline "History of the Ukrainian Diaspora", on the topic "The Role of Historians in the Socio-Cultural Life of the Ukrainian Diaspora". The lecture was attended by scientific and pedagogical workers of the Department, the leading specialist of the Educational and Methodological Department Chorna M.M. and the Dean of the Faculty Shaposhnikova I.V.
Colleagues noted that the lecturer skillfully supported the search nature of the students' activities, paying attention to previous knowledge and topics covered in the course, and recognized that the lecture was held at a high scientific and methodological level.
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Thursday, September 25, 2025
The professor of the department conducted training for civil servants of Ivano-Frankivsk
On September 25, a full-time training course for civil servants was held at the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration, under the general short-term advanced training program “Strategic Communications”. The speaker of the program was the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department, Oleksandr Viktorovich Cheremisin. During the training, attention was focused on the experience of using strategic communications tools in the conditions of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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