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Department of Economic and Social Geography

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38-032-239-45-73

esg.dep.geography@lnu.edu.ua

The Department of Economic and Social Geography named after Professor Oleg Shabliy prepares highly qualified specialists in educational and professional programs for achieving a range of degrees:
• Bachelor’s degree in specialty 106 Geography (OPP “Economic and Social Geography”, “Geography”, “Urban Studies, Spatial Planning and Regional Development”); 014.07 Secondary Education. Geography;
• Master’s degree in specialties 106 Geography and 014.07 Secondary Education (Geography);
• Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty 103 Earth Sciences, specialization Economic and Social Geography.
The surety of the EPP “Economic and Social Geography” at the bachelor’s level is Professor I. Rovenchak, EPP “Geography” – Associate Professor Iryna Hudzeliak, EPP “Secondary Education. Geography” – Associate Professor O.I. Mamchur.
The department employs 13 people, including one professor – Doctor of Geography, four associate professors, an assistant, a candidate of geography and three assistants, the head of the educational laboratory, an engineer, two senior laboratory assistants. There are three postgraduate students.
The Department has a training laboratory for atlas and thematic mapping.

Since its inception, the Department has been formed as the scientific core of the Lviv Social and Geographical School and a center for the creation of fundamental knowledge in Ukraine and the world, whose longtime leader was Doctor of Geography, Honored Professor of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Geographical Society, Honorary Member and Chairman of the Geographical Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Head of the Geographical Department of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Laureate of the International Prize for Geography. In 2023, the department was named after Professor Oleg Shabliy.
Professor O. Shabliy is the founder of Ukrainian systemic social geography at the newest stage of its development: he revealed the laws of social geography; substantiated the system of methods of social geography and the essence of the main category of social geography – the geospatial organization of society; initiated mathematical and geographical research in Ukrainian social geography.
The main scientific areas of scientific work of the scientist in the field of social geography: theoretical and methodological, mathematical and geographical, complex atlas mapping, geographical Ukrainian studies, regional studies and local history, history of Ukrainian geography, geographical biography, political geography and geopolitics, military geography, geohumanistics. Professor O. Shabliy is the author of almost a thousand scientific, methodological, scientific and journalistic writings, the most cited scientist in Ukraine in the field of social geography.

Співробітники

завідувачIryna Hudzeliakзавідувач
ПрофесорIvan RovenchakПрофесор
ДоцентYaroslav IvakhДоцент
ДоцентOlha MamchurДоцент
ДоцентMyroslava VlakhДоцент
Асистент, Аспірант (сумісник)Yuriy BorsukАсистент, Аспірант (сумісник)
Асистент (сумісник)Lubov KotykАсистент (сумісник)
АсистентNatalia SkabaraАсистент
АсистентHanna SmaliychukАсистент
АспірантDnistryanska IrynaАспірант
АспірантZlata LoginАспірант

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Методичні матеріали

Дослідження

Scientists of the Lviv Social and Geographical School, whose long-term leader was Professor O. Shabliy (1935-2023), conduct research in various areas, including interdisciplinary ones:

  • history, theory and methodology of social geography (O. Shabliy, I. Rovenchak, M. Vlach, O. Vystak, L. Kotyk)
  • geography of culture (I. Rovenchak, L. Kotyk),
  • geography of population, geo-urbanism, migration studies (O.I. Shabliy, I.I. Gudzeliak, M.R. Vlach, V.S. Hrytsevych, I.M. Chaika),
  • social geography (O. Shabliy, M. Biletsky, L. Shevchuk, L. Kotyk),
  • economic geography and geoeconomics (O. Shabliy, I. Gudzeliak, M. Knysh, O. Mamchur, Y. Ivakh, M. Vlach, I. Vanda, L. Kotyk, A. Smaliychuk, Z. Login, Y. Borsuk),
  • political geography, geopolitics and geostrategy (O. Shabliy, I. Rovenchak, I. Gudzeliak, O. Vystak, I. Vanda, Y. Ivakh, O. Mamchur),
  • socio-geographical globalization (O. I. Shabliy, I. I. Rovenchak, M. M. Knysh, O. I. Mamchur, Y. E. Ivakh, I. I. Gudzieliak),
  • socio-economic cartography (O. I. Shabliy, I. I. Rovenchak, M. M. Knysh),
  • geoinformation methods in social geography (V. S. Hrytsevych),
  • social and geographical terminology (M. R. Vlach),
  • geoimagology (O. I. Shabliy, M. R. Vlach, I. I. Gudziak),
  • methods of teaching social geography (I. Gudzieliak, M. Vlach, Y. Ivakh, O. Mamchur, I. Vanda, L. Kotyk).

All the teachers of the Department work on the problems of geographical Ukrainian studies, socio-geographical regionalism, country and local history, and are the authors of a series of maps in the unique edition “Lviv. Comprehensive Atlas”.

The department is working on the scientific topic “Socio-geographical problems of development of the Western region of Ukraine in the post-war period” (scientific adviser Prof. I. Rovenchak).

Історія кафедри

The Department of Economic Geography was established in 1944.

The first Head of the Department was Professor O. Vashchenko (1908-1984).

In 1984-1990, the Department was headed by Associate Professors M. Parobetskyi (1984-1986) and M. Honak (1986-1988).
Since 1988, the department was renamed Economic and Social Geography and Prof. F. Zastavnyi (1988-1990) and Prof. O. Shablii (1990-2022) were in charge of it.

Since 2022, the Department has been headed by Associate ProfessorIryna Hudzeliak.

Geological and Geomorphological Field Training of GRN-11s Students

17.06.2025 | 12:02

From June 7 to 14, 2025, first-year students of group GRN-11c from the Faculty of Geography at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv took part in the geological and geomorphological module of their field training. The practice was conducted under the supervision of faculty members from the Department of Geomorphology and Palaeogeography — Professor Andriy Bogucki and Associate Professor Olena Tomeniuk.
Throughout the week, students had the opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge in field conditions near Lviv. In particular, participants:

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You are invited to participate in the proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “LVIV HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: DIMENSIONS, CHALLENGES, CONTEXTS”, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the prof. Oleh Shabliy Department of Economic and Social Geography, which will take place on October 23–24, 2025

15.06.2025 | 22:19

You are invited to participate in the proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “LVIV HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: DIMENSIONS, CHALLENGES, CONTEXTS”, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the prof. Oleh Shabliy Department of Economic and Social Geography, which will take place on October 23–24, 2025
THE CONFERENCE TOPICS
1. Prof. Oleh Shabliy – scientist, educator and leader of the Lviv scientific school of Human Geography.
2. Theory, methodology and methods of the new Human Geography.
3. Economic and Social Geography: problems of recovery and...

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Associate Professor of the Department of Geoecology and Physical Geography Anatoliy Smaliychuk took part in the training “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management” (in a remote format)

30.05.2025 | 11:53

On May 29, 2025, Associate Professor of the Department of Geoecology and Physical Geography Anatoliy Smaliychuk took part in the training “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management” (in a remote format).
He delivered a presentation on the topic “Multi-hazard Risk Assessment: Natural and Man-Made Hazards”, in which he presented methodological approaches and provided examples of such an assessment using GIS technologies, remote sensing data and considering climate change and the war factors in Ukraine.
The training took place on May...

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Workshop of the Oleh Shabliy Department of Economic and Social Geography with the participation of Prof. Jussi Jauhiainen (University of Turku)

17.02.2025 | 17:01

Workshop ‘Return migration of Ukrainians from the EU to Ukraine 2022-2024’ will be held in a mixed format on 18 February 2025 at 14.30
Place: Faculty of Geography, room 69; via Zoom
Working languages: Ukrainian, English
In the programme of the worshop:

Presentation of the project. Questions to the speakers. Discussion.
We invite everyone to join us by QR code or link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76495119732?pwd=yGarUBVA1P1Z7C2ua5Wbobkvlxljya.1
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We invite you to participate in the 5th All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference for Students, Postgraduates, and Young Scientists “Horizons of Soil Science,” which will take place on May 8, 2025

11.02.2025 | 12:55

We invite you to participate in the 5th All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference for Students, Postgraduates, and Young Scientists “Horizons of Soil Science”, which will take place on May 8, 2025, in a hybrid (in-person and remote) format.
Conference working languages: Ukrainian, English.
Conference topics:

Genesis, properties, and geography of soils
Sustainable use and protection of soils
Soil and land resources of Ukraine and food security in the context of Russian aggression
Soil science education and popularization of soil science

The conference materials will be published in the conference...

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