Viktor Ivanovich Vasilenko ( Ukrainian: Vasilenko Viktor Ivanovich ; 1839 - 1914 ) - Russian and Ukrainian ethnographer, Zemstvo statistician , researcher of folk art crafts of the Poltava region, full member of the Poltava Agricultural Society and the Poltava Academic Archival Commission.
| Victor Ivanovich Vasilenko | |
|---|---|
| Ukrainian Vasilenko Viktor Ivanovich | |
| Date of Birth | January 31 ( February 12 ) 1839 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | March 24 ( April 6 ) 1914 (75 years old) |
| A place of death | Beliki , Kobelyak district , Poltava province |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | ethnographer |
Biography
Came from an old Cossack family. He was born on January 31 ( February 12 ), 1839 , in the village of Panskoe, Zolotonoshsky Uyezd (now this territory is flooded by the waters of the Kremenchug reservoir).
Early orphaned, earned clerical service in various institutions. In 1882-1892 he lived and worked in the statistics department of the Poltava provincial zemstvo. Prone to observing ethnographic differences in the economic customs of the population, he introduced many valuable definitions of household economic terms into the works of the Poltava Zemsky Statistical Bureau.
From individual personal works of Vasilenko, his studies of handicrafts , especially weaving , of individual settlements of the Poltava province, are issued.
V. I. Vasilenko is one of the authors of the " Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary " in which he posted a number of articles on the geography of his native land.
Having retired, he handed over his own collection of books to the Poltava Public Library.
He died on March 24 ( April 6 ), 1914 in the village of Beliki, Kobelyak district , where he lived after leaving service.
Literature
- Vasilenko, Viktor Ivanovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.