Department of Economic and Social Geography

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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.

Staff

Acting ChairpersonIryna HudzeliakActing Chairperson
ProfessorIvan RovenchakProfessor
ProfessorOleh ShabliyProfessor
Associate ProfessorVolodymyr GrytsevychAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorYaroslav IvakhAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorOlha MamchurAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorMyroslava VlakhAssociate Professor
Lecturer (part-timer)Lubov KotykLecturer (part-timer)
LecturerIryna VandaLecturer
Senior Department SecretaryOryslava TymchukSenior Department Secretary
Postgraduate StudentDnistryanska IrynaPostgraduate Student
Postgraduate Student, Lecturer (part-timer)Yuriy BorsukPostgraduate Student, Lecturer (part-timer)
Postgraduate StudentZlata KachmarykPostgraduate Student

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Teaching materials

Research

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:

  • TheoryandmethodsofSocialGeographyintheperiodofscienceand practice informatizationand the development of globalizing processes (Prof. O. Shablii, Prof. I. Rovenchak, Assoc. Prof. V. Hrytsevych, Assoc. Prof. M. Knysh, Assoc. Prof. M. Vlakh);
  • Geographic Country Studies and Area Studies (Prof. O. Shablii, Prof. I. Rovenchak, Assoc. Prof. O. Vistak, Assoc. Prof. M. Knysh, Assoc. Prof. S. Kuzyk, Assoc. Prof. V. Stetskyi, Cand. Sci. (Geog.) Assoc. Prof. Ya. Ivakh);
  • SocialgeographicUkrainianStudies( O. Shablii, Prof. I. Rovenchak, Assoc. Prof. O. Vistak, Assoc. Prof. M. Vlakh);
  • Demographic and socialGeography(Prof. O. Shablii, Prof. I. Rovenchak, Assoc. Prof. M. Biletskyi, Prof. M. Vlakh, Assoc. Prof. V. Hrytsevych, Assoc. Prof. I. Hudzeliak, Assoc. Prof. S. Kuzyk, Cand. Sci. (Geog.) O. Mamchur, Postgrad. O. Tymchuk);
  • Economic Geography( O. Shablii, Assoc. Prof. M. Vlakh, Assoc. Prof. M. Knysh, Assis. I. Vanda, Assist. L. Kotyk, Eng. I. Vovk, Postgrad. O. Horovyi);
  • Politicalgeographyandgeopolitics( O. Shablii, Prof. I. Rovenchak, Assoc. Prof. O. Vistak, Assoc. Prof. M. Knysh, Postgrad. M. Myrosh);
  • Mathematical cartography ( O. Shablii, Assoc. Prof. V. Hrytsevych, Assoc. Prof. M. Knysh, Head of University Laboratory of „Complexatlas cartography” Cand. Sci. (Geog.) T. Kravets);
  • Historical geography( O. Shablii, Prof. I. Rovenchak, Assoc. Prof. O. Vistak, Assoc. Prof. M. Vlakh).

 

The International Scientific and Practical Conference “GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION AND SCIENCE: CHALLENGES AND ADVANCEMENT” will be held on May 18–20, 2023

02.02.2023 | 12:04

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.
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Assistant professors of the Faculty of Geography, Olena Tomenyuk and Olga Mamchur, talked about the figure of Professor Yuriy Polyanskyi on the live Radio Nezalezhnist

19.01.2023 | 20:43

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...

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The plan for the implementation of international environmental projects was presented by Prof. Department of Pedology and Soil Geography Taras Yamelynets

11.01.2023 | 18:25

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.

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Participation of teachers of the Department of Pedology and Soil Geography in the webinar “Successful Accreditation Of The Educational Program: Current Problems And Solutions”

03.01.2023 | 12:12

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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