Lev Ustinovich Bykovo ( April 11 (23), 1895 , Olkhovets , Kiev province , Russian Empire - January 11, 1992, Denver , USA ) - Ukrainian bibliographer , book scholar , librarian , geopolitician , historian and memoirist .
| Lev Ustinovich Bykovsky | |
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| Date of Birth | April 11 (23), 1895 |
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| Date of death | January 11, 1992 (96 years old) |
| Place of death | Denver USA |
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| Scientific field | Bibliography Story |
Biography
early years
Born in with. Olkhovets of the Kiev province (now Zvenigorod district , Cherkasy region ) in the family of a forester. He had Polish roots on his father and Ukrainian on his mother. He began to get education in 1905 from studying at a commercial school located in Zvegirodok. After graduating from it in 1912, he continued his studies at the metallurgical faculty of the Polytechnic and at the Forestry Institute, from 1912 to 1915. took an active part in the life of the student community. And in 1915 he was expelled for poor progress. In the aftermath of the then World War I, after being expelled from the institute, he was sent as a foreman to the military road department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the rear areas of the northern front. And from March 1916 to November 1917 he was sent to the army on the Russian - Ottoman front as a technical engineer. During this period, the first articles began to be published and managed to organize the Ukrainian community in Turkish Trabzon .
During the period of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Returning to Ukraine, he worked as a secretary at the Kiev publishing house Drukar (early 1918) and as an employee of the National Library of Ukraine in Kiev (since 1919). He was influenced by Yu. Mezhenka. In late 1919 - early 1920, he studied at the Ukrainian State Kamenetz-Podolsky University, worked at the university library. Winter 1920/21 spent in with. Lozovatka in Zvenigorod region (now the village of Shpolyansky district, Cherkasy region), published "Annals of the public library of the Lozovatsky society" Enlightenment "."
first emigration
Because of the difficult political situation in the fall of 1921 he was forced to leave for emigration to Poland . Where, as well as in Ukraine, he continued editorial publishing. And from 1921 to 1922 he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw . In 1923 he moved to Podebrody , Czechoslovakia , where from 1923 to 1927 he studied at the Faculty of Economics and Co- operation of the Ukrainian Academy of Economics . where he was a student of the book critic Zhivny and under his leadership he developed the theory of bibliology, expressed in the monogram "Notes on book-knowledge and book-writing" (1923). In total, during the period of study, he twice published collections of “Ukrainian book science” in 1922–193. (Reprinted for the third time already in Warsaw in 1929). Since 1927 he became a certified engineer economist.
In 1928 he returned to Warsaw where until 1944 he worked at the Warsaw City Public Library. In the period from 1938 to 1939, together with Yuri Lipka, he organized the Ukrainian Black Sea Institute, and later organized the Oceanic Institute. From 1942 to 1944 he was the director of the Warsaw City Public Library. Parallel taught at the Higher courses of library science.
Since January 1945 he was in German camps for displaced persons. After his release, he was engaged in journalism in Germany and also reprinted his works of previous years. He participated in the development of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, in which he soon headed the book-study commission.
post-war period
Since 1963, several documented volumes have been published - The Book-Library-Academy-Academy (1971). In June 1948 he left for the USA , where he first settled in New York , and in 1954 - in Denver (Colorado), where 1954-63 he worked in the local public library. He actively collaborated with IAOD (elected as its corresponding member) and the Ukrainian Historical Society.
Died in the city of Denver.
Compositions
- The services are Ukrainian books. Lviv-New York, 1997.
Literature
- S.I. Bіlokіn. BIKOVSKY Lev Yustinovich // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : at 10 tons: [ Ukrainian ] / editorial: V. A. Smoliy (head) and ін. ; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine . - K .: Naukova Dumka , 2003 .-- T. 1: A - B. - 688 p. : il. - ISBN 966-00-0734-5 .
- Kazakova N.L. L. Bikovskiy. Bibliographic drawing. K., 1996.
When writing this article, we used the material from the article “ BIKOVSKY Lev Justinovich ” (author S.I. Bilokin) from the publication “ Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ”, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license .