Scholar Support Office
SSO promotes technological innovations in Ukraine in cooperation with international partners.
Role: Координатор
Ph.D., professor
Igor studies historical regionalism, religious, social, oral, and urban history. He is also interested in the history of international relations, gender studies, historiography and archaeology, as well as the history of education and the modernization of the education system in Ukraine.
For more than 30 years, Igor has been studying the regional history of Southern Ukraine during the Russian Empire, including the history of Crimea and Donbas. He launched the book series "History of Foreign Consulates in Southern Ukraine," where five books have been published. Currently, Igor is working on the issues of recording the destroyed research infrastructure of Ukraine and the initiative "Ukrainian Science Diaspora."
Igor is the head of the Zaporizhzhia scientific society named after Yakiv Novytskyi since 1997, the coordinator of international activities at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University since 2010. Since 2012, he has also been working as a researcher at the Institute of Urban History.
From 2014 to 2022, Igor was a member of the expert council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on the examination of dissertations in historical sciences, and from 2015 to the present, he has been the head of the Department of History and Philosophy at Berdiansk State Pedagogical University.
In addition, from 2019 to 2023, he was the chairman, and since then he has been an international expert of the "Humanities" sectoral expert council of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance. Since 2021, he has also been a member of the European Association for International Education, and since 2022, he has been the coordinator of the Scholar Support Office.
Moreover, Igor was a member of the jury of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in History, an expert in the Monograph for Grant Competition of the Young Scientists Council at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, an expert in the regional competition for gifted youth in science, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Museum Bulletin, Scriptorium Nostrum, Biographistica Ukrainica, and others.
Black Sea History Working Papers, vol. 3 (Rethymnon, Crete, 2020). 534 p., Gelina Harlaftis, Victoria Konstantinova, Igor Lyman, Anna Sydorenko and Eka Tchkoidze (eds)
Role: Author