Stoiko, Stepan Mikhailovich

Stepan Stoyko was born March 14, 1920 in the family of a priest in the village. Krichovo , now Tyachiv district of Transcarpathian region of Ukraine .

In 1938 he graduated from the classical gymnasium in Khust and was appointed to the post of teacher in the mountain village of Novoselitsa. Already at the gymnasium, the Czech professor Antonin Schirmer instilled in him a love of nature, which accompanies him all his life.

After the end of World War II in 1945, Stepan Stoyko was appointed referent of the social welfare department in the People’s Rada of Transcarpathian Ukraine in Uzhgorod, from where he received a referral to study in Lviv .

During 1945-1949, Stepan Stoyko studied at the Forestry Department of the Lviv Agricultural Institute , received the qualification of “Forestry Engineer”. After graduation, the young specialist was sent to work in the Uzhgorod forestry, where he worked for two years as a forestry engineer and forester.

In 1951, a crucial scientific meeting took place for Stepan Stoiko with an academician Pyotr Pogrebnyak , who arrived in Transcarpathia on a scientific expedition, and the young specialist was instructed to accompany him with reserved places. Academician Pogrebnyak, who then headed the Forest Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, invited the young specialist to enter the graduate school of the institute. Under his leadership, S. Stoiko defended his thesis in 1955, and in 1969 a doctoral dissertation on oak forests of the Carpathian mountain system. ^[2]

During 1955 - 1966 Steadily worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Botany and Dendrology of the Lviv Forestry Institute , taught the course "Botany". In 1962, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor of the Department of Botany and Dendrology of the Lviv Forestry Engineering Institute. In 1966-1970 he was a senior researcher in the Lviv branch of the N. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR , and for the next 4 years he headed the department of conservation of natural ecosystems at the State Natural History Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR .

In 1970, he received a doctorate in biological sciences with a degree in botany at the Institute of Botany of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences ( Kiev ). In 1980, by the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission, he was awarded the academic title of professor.

In 1974 - 2000, he was the head of the Department of the Protection of Natural Ecosystems at the Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , and since that time has been working as the chief scientific employee of the Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . In combination from 1972 to 2000, he worked at the Department of Geography of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv at the departments of physical geography, rational use of natural resources, and nature conservation. I taught the course “ Environmental Protection ” and the special course “Environmental Protection in Foreign Countries”. Under his leadership, 12 master's theses were defended.

At the invitation of foreign educational institutions, he gave lectures at the Mendel Agronomic University ( Brno , Czech Republic ), Etves University ( Budapest , Hungary ), and at the University of Cologne ( Cologne , Germany ).

Professor Stoyko is a member of the editorial boards of a number of professional journals ( Scientific Bulletin of NLTU Ukraine , Scientific Works of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ).

Stepan Stoyko is one of the initiators of the publication of the Green Book of Ukraine ( 1987 ), in which he substantiated the synphytososological index for assessing rare phytocenoses and described more than 40 rare forest syntaxonives.

For a long period he headed the Presidium of the Lviv Regional Organization of the Ukrainian Society for the Conservation of Nature (UOOP) and the Scientific Council of the Lviv House of Scientists . He was also a member of the Council of the Ukrainian Botanical Society and deputy chairman of the Council on Biosphere Problems of the Western Scientific Center .

Professor Stojko speaks Czech , Slovak , Hungarian , Polish and Russian .

The professor’s scientific activity is related to forest geobotany, ecology and conservation of the Carpathians , Rastochye and Western Podillia , where he studied the relict localities of pine , rock oak , broad-leaved linden , yew berry , Cossack juniper , which have been preserved from the early and middle Holocene and are important for elucidating centuries-old Holocene history of forest development. Using phytocenochorological and geobotanical methods, he studied the altitudinal differentiation of the vegetation cover in the Ukrainian Carpathians , where he distinguished 10 altitudinal vegetation zones and determined two variants of zonation — on the southwestern and northeastern macro slopes. The results of many years of research are summarized in the monograph "Oak forests of the Ukrainian Carpathians: environmental characteristics, reproduction, protection" (2009).

Professor Stoyko is the author of 10 scientific and popular science monographs and 400 scientific papers. The scientific heritage of the scientist is multifaceted and covers various areas of the natural sciences. The vast majority of works are dedicated to the Carpathian region. A significant contribution has been made to the history of science - this is a study of the heritage of outstanding Soviet and foreign scientists - V. I. Vernadsky , P. S. Pogrebnyak , A. Zlatnik .

He published independently and in co-authorship of more than twenty scientific monographs, non-fiction books, textbooks, over 400 scientific works. Among them are: “Nature Reserves and Natural Monuments of the Ukrainian Carpathians” (Lviv, 1966), “Carpathians through the eyes of the inquisitive” (Lviv, 1976), “The Carpathians are forever green” (Uzhhorod, 1977), “Nature Protection of the Ukrainian Carpathians and surrounding territories” ( 1980), “Flora and Vegetation of the Carpathian Reserve” (Kiev, 1982), “The Life and Creativity of V.I. Vernadsky in Ukraine” (Kiev, 1984), “Protected Ecosystems of the Carpathians” (1991), “Fundamentals of Socioecology” (Kiev, 1995), "T" he East Carpathian biosphere reserves "(Biosphere Reserve" Eastern Carpathians ")" (1999), "Nature Protection System in the Upper Dniester Basin" (Lviv, 2004), “Rare phytogenofund of the western regions of Ukraine (Sozological assessment and scientific basis for protection)” (Lviv, 2004), “Uzhansky National Nature Park. Multifunctional significance ”(Lviv, 2007),“ Protected territories of Lviv region ”(Lviv 2008),

Rewards

• 2005 - diploma of the laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology for a series of scientific works of the authors team ““ Development of scientific foundations and practical recommendations for the conservation of biodiversity in the context of sustainable development of Ukraine ””.

Honors

• 1994 - for researching the forest ecosystems of the Carpathians and scientific works in the field of nature conservation, the Scientific Council of the Zvolensky Technical University awarded Stepan Mikhailovich the title of “ doctor honoris causa ”.

Medals

• 1991 - Gold Medal of the Ministry of Environment and Water of Poland .
• 1995 - Gold medal named after Peter I. Lenne Foundations named after I.V. Goethe.
• 2002 - silver medal of the Zvolensk Technical University.

• Stoiko, S. M. Carpathians turn green forever / Stepan Mikhailovich Stoiko. - Uzhhorod: Carpathians, 1977. - 175 p.
• Stoiko, S. Treasury of knowledge about the Ukrainian forest / S. Stoiko, I. Kovalchuk, L. Kopy // Bulletin of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. - 2008. - No. 9. - S. 46-48.
• Stoiko, S. M. Modern types of anthropogenic impact on the living environment / Sec. M. Stoiko, I. B. Koinova // Ukrainian Geographical Journal. - 2012. - No. 1. - S. 50-57.
• Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine : Handbook / edited by Professor Yu. N. Debrynyuk . - Lviv: Kamula, 2010. - 340 pages. ISBN 978-966-433-049-4

• Biography of S. N. Stoyko on the website of the National Library of Ukraine named after V.I. Vernadsky .
• Bibliography of publications S. N. Stoyko - Ukrainian abstract journal "Source".
• Biography of S. N. Stoyko on the website of the Faculty of Geography of Ivan Franko Lviv National University.