I live in Kyiv, my native and favourite city. In 2000 I graduated from Kyiv
Taras Shevchenko University, then took a post graduate course. In 2005 I defended a Ph.D.
thesis in analytical chemistry entitled "Copper and iron chelates adsorbed on silica as solid-phase
redox reagents for the determination of the organic reductants". I worked as a
researcher in the scientific group of Prof. O. A. Zaporozhets'
till I left the university in 2010 and became a freelancer to be able to fully concentrate on my own
projects concerning monuments of Ukrainian architecture and their preservation.
Since 2005 I’m developing my project "Wooden churches of Ukraine". In the competition realized
by the Ministry of Youth and Family Affairs I won the President's of Ukraine grant for talented youth
for my project support during 2006. The main results of this project are the website "Wooden churches of Ukraine" that is the first website dedicated to Ukrainian
wooden architecture and the guidebook "The forty four wooden churches of Lviv region" published by the Grani-T
Publishers in 2007. Now I`m going on with this project, including expeditions, developing the
website, publications of my articles and interviews. I collaborate with colleagues from the EU; I am a member
of the Wooden Churches and Belfries Study Society (Společnost pro výzkum dřevěných kostelu a zvonic)
since March 2010. At present, I'm working on a new book. Recently I became a public partner in the
sponsor
project of the restoration of a monument of wooden architecture.
Since 2005, I contribute to "Mizhnarodny turyzm"
("International tourism"), "Welcome to Ukraine" magazines, "Gazeta po-kijevski" and some
other editions as a journalist and photographer.
Since 2008, I'm a deputy chief of the Czech-Ukrainian project
"Tourist stamps - Ukraine".
Since 2009, I cooperate with the "Mills of Ukraine" project, and I'm a member of the International
Molinological Society (TIMS)
e-mail: lvivrem@ ukr.net
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