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 |
| ProfessorOleh Shabliy | Professor |
| Associate ProfessorVolodymyr Grytsevych | Associate Professor |
| Associate ProfessorYaroslav Ivakh | Associate Professor |
| Associate ProfessorOlha Mamchur | Associate Professor |
| Associate ProfessorMyroslava Vlakh | Associate Professor |
| Lecturer (part-timer)Lubov Kotyk | Lecturer (part-timer) |
| LecturerIryna Vanda | Lecturer |
| Senior Department SecretaryOryslava Tymchuk | Senior Department Secretary |
| Postgraduate StudentDnistryanska Iryna | Postgraduate Student |
| Postgraduate Student, Lecturer (part-timer)Yuriy Borsuk | Postgraduate Student, Lecturer (part-timer) |
| Postgraduate StudentZlata Kachmaryk | 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:
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.
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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.
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January 18, 2023 live Radio Nezalezhnist talked about the figure of academician Yuriy Polyanskyi (1892-1975) professor of geographic faculty Olena Tomeniuk and Olia Mamchur.
About the life and creative path of the Ukrainian – Argentinian geographer, geologist, and archaeologist, the liberation struggles of the Ukrainian people, the scientific and educational activity of Yuriy Ivanovich; his role in the formation of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, organizational work in the educational sphere at the geographic faculty, as well as the difficult times...
On January 10, 2023, a meeting of the management team and members of the international environmental organization WWF-Ukraine was held at the Department of Pedology and Soil Geography.
Member of the organization, Professor of the Department of Pedology and Soil Geography, Taras Yamelynets, presented a plan for the implementation of two international environmental projects with the support of the European Union’s HORIZON and Interreg LIFE programs.
The partners agreed implementation dates and main activities of the projects during 2023.
On December 6, 2022, the head of the Department of Pedology and Soil Geography, Zinovii Pankiv, Professor Andrew Kyrylchuk, and Associate Professors Oksana Bonishko andAlex Telehuz took part in the webinar “Successful Accreditation of the Educational Program: Current Problems and Solutions”.
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