Vasyl Slobodian

Vasyl Slobodian was born on 28 September 1951 in Lviv.^[1]

In 1973 he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. From 1990 at the Ukrainian Regional Specialized Scientific and Restoration Institute "Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsiia [uk]": electronic systems design engineer; compiler and editor-in-chief of the Visnyk of the Institute "Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsiia" (1993–2009); head of the publishing department, now a Leading Researcher.^[1][2][3]

In 2006, he received his Candidate of Historical Sciences.^[1][4]

He was a representative of Ukraine in the joint commission for the inclusion of Ukrainian wooden churches in the UNESCO World Heritage List. As part of a team of researchers, he developed the historical basis for the reconstruction of the architectural and ethnographic ensemble of the Zaporizhzhia Sich [uk] in Khortytsia.^[5]

From 1988, he has been conducting historical research, in particular on sacred construction in Ukraine and on its ethnic lands abroad.^[1][5][6][7]

Slobodian is the author of more than 120 scientific works on the history of architecture. He has worked on and published biographies of Ukrainian architects Roman Hrytsai [uk], Oleksandr Lushpynskyi, and Vasyl Nahirnyi.^[1][8]

Monographs:

• Tserkvy ukraintsiv Rumunii (1994)
• Kholmshchyna i Pidliashshia (1997, co-author)
• Synahohy Ukrainy (1998)
• Zhovkivshchyna: istoryko-arkhitekturni opysy tserkov (1998)
• Tserkvy Ukrainy: Peremyska yeparkhiia (1998)
• Ukrainski tserkvy Brodivskoho raionu (2000, co-author)
• Tserkvy Turkivskoho raionu (2003)
• Khramy Rohatynshchyny (2004)
• Tserkvy Kholmskoi yeparkhii (2005)
• 100 tserkov Nahirnykh (2 parts, 2013—2015, co-author)
• Istoriia tserkov sela Dobriany (2014)
• Istoriia Ustia Zelenoho ta yoho tserkov (2018)
• Ukrainski dereviani tserkvy v rysunkakh Antona Varyvody (2020)
• Atlas ukrainskykh istorychnykh mist (2020, co-author)

• Dmytro Yavornytskyi Prize (2010)^[9][5]