Kozar, Pavel Antonovich

Pavel Antonovich Kozar (February 12, 1898, p. Shirokoe (now Solonyansky District, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) - April 24, 1944, Poland) - Ukrainian historian, archaeologist and teacher.

His parents were expelled by the Soviet authorities to Siberia, where they died. Kozar himself was able to return to his native place.

Having received a secondary education, he entered the historical department of the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of National Education , which he graduated in 1926.

In 1929, he defended his thesis "Museum of Local Lore and Its Tasks" with Academician Dmitry Yavornitsky. In the years 1925-1931. He worked as head of the historical and archaeological department of the Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum , which at that time was headed by D. Yavornytsky .

He was the author of 16 popular science works and 2 monographs on local history. Some of these works were included in his doctoral thesis “Pilots of the Dnieper rapids”.

In 1927-1930 personally participated in the integrated scientific and archaeological expedition to the Dnieper hydroelectric station .

In the late 1920s and 1930s he was arrested three times, expelled from the Dnipropetrovsk region (to the Donbass). As in the link, and after returning worked as a schoolteacher.

During the occupation served in 1941-1943. head of the department of education of the regional government, headed the department of history of Ukraine of the Dnepropetrovsk State Ukrainian University, was simultaneously the director of the Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum. At this time, continued to publish articles in the "Dnepropetrovsk newspaper." In the Shevchenko days on March 5, 1942, he read the report “Historical poems by T. G. Shevchenko” at the university. In the summer of 1942, Pavel Antonovich headed a three-week archaeological expedition supported by the Germans in Nadporozhye. It turned out to be possible due to the fact that during the retreat by the Soviet troops the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station was blown up and temporarily exposed areas were exposed. P. Kozar attracted archaeologists A. Bodyansky, S. Nakelsky, artist N. Pogrebnyak and geologist A. Shinkarenko to the expedition.

January 1, 1943 dismissed by the Germans from the university. In the autumn of the same year, he and his daughters Elena and Galina moved to Lviv, where he underwent an operation on the stomach, and then to Poland, where he died in April 1944 in Radom from stomach cancer.