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Professor Mykola V. Kugutyak
Doctor of Historical Sciences, |
He was born on 27 October 1952 in Nazavyziv village, Nadvirna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. Major monographs: Founder and leading specialist of the Educational and Research Institute of History, Ethnology and Archeology of the Carpathians. On the initiative of Prof. Kuhutyak, the Carpathian Ethno-Archaeological Expedition was established in 2006 to identify, map and survey ancient and medieval religious monuments of the Carpathian region, defence and production complexes of the region, trans-Carpathian routes, study historical toponymy, traditional culture of ethnic groups, and the history of the national liberation movement. A kind of inventory of the ethno-historical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region has made it possible to identify more than 300 hitherto unknown monuments from different historical periods. For example, more than 150 unique sites have been located in the Galician Hutsul region alone, and 100 sites in the Boykivshchyna region. Among them are dozens of medieval settlements, monasteries, castles and defensive courtyards, and salt production complexes concentrated near ancient routes and passes. E-mail: mykola.kuhutiak@pnu.edu.ua Phone. 59-61-07 Humanitarian Building, 6th floor, room 623. Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 76025 Ivano-Frankivsk 57 Shevchenko str.
Education: History Department of the Vasyl Stefanyk Ivano-Frankivsk State Pedagogical Institute (1981) (modern Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations), postgraduate studies at the Institute of Social Sciences (Lviv, 1984).
Professional activity: Since 1984, he has been working at the History Department of Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute: assistant of the Department of History of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR, in 1990 he was awarded the academic title of associate professor.
PhD thesis: ‘The Situation and Revolutionary Liberation Struggle of Agricultural Workers of Western Ukraine in 1929-1939’. He defended his dissertation on 28 June 1985 at the Specialised Council of Odesa State University. In 1994, he defended his dissertation at the Ukrainian Free University (Munich, Germany) and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
His doctoral dissertation was entitled ‘National Political Movement in Galicia in 1890-1939’. He defended his dissertation on 6 February 1996 at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, specialising in ethnology, and was awarded the academic title of professor in 1996.
Professor Kuhutyak is the founder of the Department of Ethnology and Archeology at the Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (he was the Head of the Department from 2005 to autumn 2014) and the Director of the Educational and Research Institute of History, Ethnology and Archeology of the Carpathians (since 2008). On the initiative of M. Kuhutyak, the Carpathian Ethnological and Archaeological Expedition was created, which began its activities in 2006 to identify, map and survey ancient and medieval religious monuments of the Carpathian region, defence and production complexes of the region, trans-Carpathian routes, study historical toponymy, traditional culture of ethnographic groups, and the history of the national liberation movement. A kind of inventory of the ethno-historical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region has made it possible to identify more than 300 hitherto unknown monuments from different historical periods. For example, more than 150 unique sites have been located in the Galician Hutsul region alone. Among them are dozens of medieval settlements, monasteries, castles and defensive courtyards, salt production complexes concentrated near ancient roads and passes. More than three dozen rock sanctuaries with unique sculptural, relief and graphic images have been brought back from oblivion. Along with the well-known petroglyphic complexes of the Balkans, the Caucasus, Karelia, the Andes, and Tibet, a large group of ‘rock temples’ in the Ukrainian Carpathians has been discovered. The discovery of many archaeological, historical, cultural and ethnographic monuments contributed to the development of the region’s tourism sector and increased the investment attractiveness of the Carpathian region. The introduction of these monuments into scientific and tourist circulation allows developing new tourist routes, publishing scientific monographs, booklets and guidebooks, opening new museums and reserves, and promotes increased attention to the region and the comprehensive preservation of its natural and historical environment.
Under the leadership of Kuhutyak M.V., the following research works are carried out: 1. Historical, cultural and ethno-social processes in the Carpathian region (state registration number 0109V000838). 2. Ethno-cultural processes in the Carpathian region (Ivano-Frankivsk region) (state registration number 0109V000839).
A number of monographs have been published on these topics, presenting the results of research on ancient and medieval sacred monuments. Among them are ‘Prykarpattia: Heritage of the Ages’ (2006), ‘Ternoshorsk Rock Sanctuary in the Carpathians’ (2007), ‘Stone Antiquities of Kosmach’ (2007), ‘Rock Sanctuaries of Sokilsky Peaks’ (2008), ‘Antiquities of Hutsulshchyna. Sources on the ethnic history of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Catalogue of historical and cultural monuments in 2 volumes. Volume I. Sacred Heritage of the Hutsul Region’ (2011), ’Antiquities of the Hutsul Region. Sources on the ethnic history of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Catalogue of historical and cultural monuments. VOLUME II. Settlements, castles, salt mining centres, ancient trans-Carpathian routes’ (2011), “Ancient temples on the sacred peaks of Kosiv region” (2012), ’Great Skyt in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 1: Paterik of the Skete. Synod’ (2013), ’The Great Skete in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 2: The Great Skete in Documents and Materials of the XVII-XXI centuries (2015), The Great Skete in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 3: The Great Skete in the Markov Desert: Ukrainian, Spiritual, Cultural and Historical Phenomenon’ (2017), ’Bubnyshche. The Rock Sanctuary of the Great Goddess in the Carpathians’ (2015), ’Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1923. Encyclopaedia’ (2018, 2019), ’Hoshiv Monastery of the Virgin Mary on Yasna Hora in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 1: Hoshiv Monastery in the written historical sources of the XVI – XX centuries’ (2018).
Professor Kuhutyak has organised a number of international and national scientific conferences: ‘The Spiritual Axis of Ukraine: Galicia – Naddniprianshchyna – Donetshchyna’ (2004), “Maniavskyi Skete in the spiritual and cultural life of Ukraine and abroad: to the 400th anniversary of its foundation” (2011), “Kosmach in the history of Hutsulshchyna and Ukraine: to the 600th anniversary of the first written mention” (2012), “Christianity in the Carpathians: to the 1025th anniversary of the baptism of Ukraine-Rus” (2013) and others.
Under his supervision, 27 candidate and two doctoral dissertations were defended. He is the chairman of the specialised council for the defence of PhD theses in the specialities of History of Ukraine and Ethnology.
The scientist is the founder and editor-in-chief of the professional scientific historical and local history journal ‘Halychyna’, the ‘Bulletin of the Precarpathian National University. History’, and the professional scientific journal “Carpathians: Man, Ethnicity, Civilisation”.
Kuhutyak is the head of the historical section of the Ivano-Frankivsk branch of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society. He is an honorary doctor of Uzhhorod National University.
He speaks Polish as a foreign language.
1. Kuhutyak M. Galicia: pages of history. Essay on the socio-political movement (nineteenth century – 1939). Ivano-Frankivsk, 1993. 200 p.
2. Kuhutiak M., Kononenko V., Fedorchak P. et al. My native land – Prykarpattia. Ivano-Frankivsk, 2000. 375 p.
3. Kuhutyak M., Kononenko V., Greshchuk V. et al. Kryvorivnia. Ivano-Frankivsk, 2003. 84 p.
4. Prykarpattia: the heritage of centuries / edited by M. Kuhutyak. Lviv: Manuscript-Lviv, 2006. 596 p.
5. Kuhutyak M. Ternoshorsk rock sanctuary in the Carpathians. Ivano-Frankivsk: Lileia-NV, 2007. 72 p.
6. Kuhutyak M. Stone antiquities of Kosmach. Ivano-Frankivsk: Lileia-NV, 2007. 99 p.
7. Kuhutiak M. Rock sanctuaries of Sokilsky peaks. Ivano-Frankivsk: Lileia-NV, 2008. 127 p.
8. Kuhutyak M.V. et al. Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1923. Illustrated history. Lviv; Ivano-Frankivsk, 2008. – 524 p. (Editor-in-chief and head of the monograph’s team of authors, head of Chapter 5 ‘National Liberation Struggle of Ukrainians (1919-1923)’, co-author of two paragraphs: Kuhutiak M., Moskaliuk M. ‘Party and Political Life’, Kuhutiak M., Panchuk M., Reent O. ‘Struggle for the Restoration of Ukrainian Statehood’).
9. Kuhutyak M. Rock sanctuaries of Pokutsko-Bukovyna Carpathians // Carpathians: Man, Ethnicity, Civilisation. 2009. №1. P. 134-150.
10. Redemption (co-authors Kuhutyak M.V., Pankiv M.I., Marchuk V.V., Korolko A.Z. and others). Lviv ; Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript, 2009. 580 p.
11. Ukrainian national liberation movement in Prykarpattia in the twentieth century. Documents and materials / edited by M. Kuhutyak. Volume 2. Book 1 (1939 – 1945). Ivano-Frankivsk: KPF ‘LIK’, 2009. 600 p.
12. Kuhutiak M., Tomenchuk B. Settlements and castles of the Galician Hutsul region. Materials of research in 2006-2010 // Galicia. 2010. № 17. P. 29-57.
13. Kuhutiak M., Tomenchuk B. Chornohora sanctuary // Carpathians: Man, Ethnicity, Civilisation. 2010. I. 2. P. 96-114.
14. Ukrainian national liberation movement in Prykarpattia in the twentieth century. Documents and materials / edited by M.Kuhutyak. – Volume 2. Book 2 (1945 – 1946). Ivano-Frankivsk: KPF ‘LIK’, 2010. 696 p.
15. Kuhutyak M. Antiquities of the Hutsul region. Sources on the ethnic history of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Catalogue of historical and cultural monuments in 2 volumes. Volume I. Sacred heritage of Hutsulshchyna. Ivano-Frankivsk; Lviv: Manuscript, 2011. 447 p.
16. Kuhutyak M. Antiquities of the Hutsul region. Sources on the ethnic history of the population of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Catalogue of historical and cultural monuments. VOLUME II. Settlements, castles, centres of salt production, ancient trans-Carpathian routes / Mykola Kuhutyak, Bohdan Tomenchuk, Ihor Kochkin, Petro Sirezhuk, Myroslav Voloshchuk. Ivano-Frankivsk ; Lviv: Manuscript, 2011. 267 p.
17. Ukrainian national liberation movement in Prykarpattia in the twentieth century. Documents and materials / edited by M. Kuhutyak. Volume 2. Book 3 (1947 – 1957). Ivano-Frankivsk: KPF ‘LIK’, 2011. 798 p.
18. Ukrainian national liberation movement in Prykarpattia in the twentieth century. Documents and materials / edited by M. Kuhutyak. Vol. 1. Book 1 (1919 – 1929). Ivano-Frankivsk: KPF ‘LIK’, 2012. 600 p.
19. Kuhutiak M. Ancient temples on the sacred peaks of Kosiv region / M. Kuhutiak. Kosiv: Pysanyi Kamen, 2012. 134 p.
20. The Great Skete in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 1: Paterik of Skytskyi. Synodicus / edited by M.V. Kuhutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2013. 728 p.
21. Ukrainian national liberation movement in Prykarpattia in the twentieth century. Documents and materials / edited by M. Kuhutyak – Vol. 1. Book 2 (1929-1939). Ivano-Frankivsk: KPF ‘Lik’, 2014. 600 p.
22. Kuhutyak M. Medieval and modern monasteries of the Carpathian-Dniester region: the main problems of research // Carpathians: man, ethnicity, civilisation. 2014. I 5. P. 6–15.
23. The Great Skete in the Carpathians: in 3 volumes. Volume 2. The Great Skete in documents and materials of the XVII-XXI centuries. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2015, 514 p.
24. The Great Skete in the Markov Desert: Ukrainian, Spiritual, Cultural and Historical Phenomenon: in 3 volumes. Volume 3. Chief editor: M. V. Kuhutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2017, 520 p.
25. Kuhutyak N.V. Bubnyshche. Rock sanctuary of the Great Goddess in the Carpathians / Mykola Kuhutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2015. 144 p.
26. Kuğutjak, Mykola. Kamena svetišta ukrajinskih Karpata / prijevodi s ukrajinskoga. Priredili Jevgenij Paščenko i Tetyana Fuderer. Zagreb : Katedra za ukrajinski jezik I kniževnost Filosofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2018. 188 р.
27. Goshiv Monastery of the Virgin Mary on Yasna Hora in the Carpathians : in 3 volumes / edited by prof. M.V. Kuhutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2018. Vol. 1 : Hoshiv Monastery in written historical sources of the XVI-XIX centuries. 552 p.
28. Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1923. Encyclopaedia: To the 100th anniversary of the formation of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic / Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration; editors: M. Kuhutyak and others. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2018. Т. 1 : А-Ж. 688 p.
29. Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1923. Encyclopaedia: To the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic / Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration and others; editors: M. Kuhutyak and others. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2019. Т. 3 : (П-С). 576 p.
30. Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1923. Encyclopaedia: To the 100th anniversary of the formation of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic / Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration and others; editors: M. Kuhutyak and others. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2021. Т. 4 : (Т-Я). 576 p.
31. Goshiv Monastery of the Virgin Mary on Yasna Hora in the Carpathians : in 3 volumes / edited by M.V. Kuhutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2021. Vol. 2: Yasnohirsk Monastery in documentary sources of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 810 p.
32. Presentation of the publication ‘ZUNR: Encyclopaedia”: conceptual foundations. Galicia. 2019. I 32.. P. 240–243.
33. Kuhutyak M.V. Kryloskyi Monastery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: historiographical discourse, written sources // Galicia. 2021. P. 34. P. 193–210.
34. Kuhutyak M. Kryloskyi Monastery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: historiographical discourse, written sources // Halychyna. Scientific and cultural and educational local history journal. 2021. № 34. P. 193-210.
35. Kuhutyak M.V. Hoshiv Monastery of the Virgin Mary on Yasna Hora in the Carpathians: in 3 vols. Vol. 2: Yasnohirsk monastery in documentary sources of the XX – early XXI centuries / edited by M. Kuhutyak. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2021. 810 p.
36. Kuhutyak MV, Korolko AZ. St. Peter’s Monastery: an outstanding spiritual monument of Galicia // East European Historical Herald / edited by V. Ilnytskyi. Drohobych: Helvetica Publishing House. 2022. I 22. P. 42–53.
37. Kuhutiak M.V. Oleksandr Karpenko – historian of the Ukrainian Revolution: To the 100th anniversary of his birth: a collective monograph. Edited by M. Kuhutyak, I. Raikivskyi, S. Kobuta. Ivano-Frankivsk: V. Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2022. 359 p.
38. Kuhutyak M., Yehreshii O., Korolko I. Historiography of the missionary activity of the Society of Jesus in the Lviv Archdiocese in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 2023. №8(14). P. 890-908.
39. Kuhutyak M. Monasteries of ancient Halych – spiritual amulets of the Ukrainian nation. Ivano-Frankivsk: Manuscript-Lviv, 2023. 792 p.
Professor Kuhutyak is the founder of a new direction in Ukrainian historical science – archaeopetrology, a science that studies ancient megalithic monuments. He is the head of a scientific school of historical ethnology.
The scientist is the founder and editor-in-chief of the following professional journals:
1. Scientific historical and local history journal ‘Halychyna’
2. ‘Bulletin of the Precarpathian National University. History’
3. Scientific journal ‘Carpathians: Man, Ethnicity, Civilisation’
Professor Kuhutyak is the head of the historical section of the Ivano-Frankivsk branch of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society.
As the Dean of the Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations, Professor Kuhutyak did a lot for the development of the Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations and historical education and science in Ukraine in general. On his initiative, a number of specialities (ethnology, political science), university departments (Department of Slavic History, Department of Historiography and Source Studies, Department of Ethnology and Archeology) were opened, and the Museum of Archeology of Prykarpattia was created.
These developments are important for the scientific, educational and methodological support of the development of historical and tourism education in Ukraine and its integration into international processes.