Juggling a successful business, children, a teaching job and a degree: meet Viktoria from Lviv
Juggling a successful business, children, a teaching job and a degree: meet Viktoria from Lviv
Read more »Department of Economic and Social Geography was founded in 1944.
The First Head of Department – Candidate of Geographic Sciences, Assoc. Prof. Vaschenko Opanas (Afanasii) Trokhymovych (1908-1984). During the period of 1984-1990 the functions of the Head of Department were executed alternatively by Assoc. Prof. Parobetskyi M. M. (1984-1986), Honak M. I. (1986-1988) and Prof. Zastavnyi F. D. (1988-1990). Since 1990 the Head of Department has been Prof. Shablii O. I.
Currently 17 employees are working at the Department including two professors – doctors of sciences, eight associate professors – candidates of sciences, four lecturers including two candidates of sciences, head of university laboratory, three engineers, three senior laboratory assistants. Eight postgraduate students (five of them on a full-time basis) and five external doctoral candidates are currently studying.
The Department executes a state budget project “Social-geographic problems of the Western Ukrainian region within the framework of European Integration and Eastern Partnership” and participates in executing an inter-department project VS-143F “Natural and social-geographic potential as a factor of fighting social-economic developmental recession (a case study of the Carpathian region of Ukraine)” (Scientific Supervisor Prof. Shablii O. I.).
The Department prepares highly qualified Bachelor, Specialist, Master level experts in the field of Geography. The Department lecturers can participate in preparing economists and psychologists at the Faculties of Economics and Philosophy respectively of the Ivan Franko National University of L’viv.
Acting ChairpersonIryna Hudzeliak | Acting Chairperson |
ProfessorIvan Rovenchak | Professor |
Associate ProfessorYaroslav Ivakh | Associate Professor |
Associate ProfessorOlha Mamchur | Associate Professor |
Associate ProfessorMyroslava Vlakh | Associate Professor |
Lecturer, Postgraduate Student (part-timer)Yuriy Borsuk | Lecturer, Postgraduate Student (part-timer) |
Lecturer (part-timer)Lubov Kotyk | Lecturer (part-timer) |
LecturerNatalia Skabara | Lecturer |
LecturerHanna Smaliychuk | Lecturer |
Senior Department SecretaryIryna Vanda | Senior Department Secretary |
Postgraduate StudentDnistryanska Iryna | Postgraduate Student |
Postgraduate StudentZlata Login | Postgraduate Student |
The social-geographic school founded by the Doctor of Philosophy Hryhorii Velychko and Acad. Stepan Rudnytskyi is developing at the department. It covers the following directions of modern scientific research:
Juggling a successful business, children, a teaching job and a degree: meet Viktoria from Lviv
Read more »On October 6-8, 2023, the Department of Geomorphology and Palaeogeography together with the University of Wrocław (Poland) held a field scientific workshop entitled “DEVELOPMENT OF PALAEOCRYOGENIC PROCESSES IN THE QUATERNARY LOESS-PALAEOSOL SEQUENCES OF UKRAINE”, dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Geography at Lviv University.
This event is one of the results of the implementation of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine grant, which is carried out under the leadership of Prof. Andriy Bogucki, and the investigators are members of the...
We would like to invite you to attend the International Scientific Conference “Soil science in the 21st century: modern challenges and development strategy”, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Department of Soil Science and Soil Geography of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, which will take place on September 21st-23rd, 2023 in a mixed (offline/online) format.
Working languages of the conference: Ukrainian, English, Polish.
Topics of the conference:
Genesis, geography and classification of soils;
Applied soil science and soil protection;
Land use in...
A graduate of the Tourism Department, a stake holder, Marta Petrivna Malska took part in a charity marathon in support of Ukraine in Warsaw, where she performed together with the famous Polish singer Marel Rodowicz.
Read more »Dear colleagues!
The Organizing Committee invites you to participate in the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Geographical Education and Science: Challenges and Advancement” dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Geography at Lviv University, which will be held on the 18th-20th of May 2023 at the Geography Faculty of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
Download information message
Go to the conference page