Petro Tolochko
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| Born | February 21, 1938 Prystromy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | April 28, 2024 (aged 86) |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union (1938–1991) → Ukraine (1991-2024) |
| Alma mater | Kiev State University |
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| Doctoral advisor | Boris Rybakov |
Petro Petrovych Tolochko (Ukrainian: Петро́ Петро́вич Толо́чко; 21 February 1938 – 28 April 2024) was a Soviet and Ukrainian historian, archaeologist, and political activist.[1] He was one of the leading specialists in history of the Kievan Rus (Old Rus) and one of leading researchers of the NASU Institute of Archaeology of Ukraine.
Tolochko was a doctor of historical sciences (1981), professor (1982), full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1990), foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011, on 8 March 2022 he announced the withdrawal of his membership[2]) and member of the World Russian People's Council.[3]
In Ukraine, Tolochko was heavily criticized for his pro-Russian views and for his disapproval of the country's relations with the EU and NATO.[4][5][6] In 2016, he was forced to quit his position as the director of the Institute of Archaeology of the NASU.[7] According to the Russian historian Ruslan Gagkuyev, Petro Tolochko was placed under house arrest in April 2023.[8][9]
Tolochko died on 28 April 2024, at the age of 86.[10]
- Old Kiev, 1970[11]
- Old Rus: Essays on Sociopolitical History, 1987[12]
- Old Russian Feudal City, 1989[13]
- Archaeology and Ancient History (In Defence of Historical Marxism), 2007[14]
- Ukraine in an Orange Interior, 2012[15]
- Early Rus: History and Archeology, 2013[16]
- Ukraine in the Fire of European Integration, 2015[17]
- The Origin of the Land of Rus', 2016[18]
