At the age of 86 years died a famous Ukrainian historian, doctor of historical Sciences Yuri slyvka. This was announced by Director of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory Vladimir vyatrovich.
“On the road to Kiev was overtaken by the sad news of the death of one of my Teachers – Yuri Cream. Eternal memory!” – viatrovych wrote on his page in Facebook.
Help. Yuriy slyvka was studied at the history faculty of Uzhgorod University. After graduation he worked as the Director of rural school. Soon enrolled in the Lviv Institute of social Sciences, where he worked as a graduate student under the guidance of academician Ivan Krypiakevych, and later headed the Department.
In the last years of his life Slivka, Professor of Lviv state financial Academy, head of Department of social Sciences and Humanities.
Yuri slyvka is also the author of articles 5 and 6 of the eight-volume “history of Ukrainian SSR” (Kyiv, 1977) and the encyclopedia of history of Ukraine.
