Volodymyr Biletskyy

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Stefanovych and the family name is Biletskyy.
Volodymyr Biletskyy
Born (1950-01-26)January 26, 1950
Matviyivka (Vilniansk Raion)
Residence Donetsk
Citizenship Ukraine
Nationality Ukrainian
Fields Mineral processing, mining
Institutions Donetsk National Technical University
Alma mater National Mining University of Ukraine
Known for Initiator and project manager of Mining Encyclopedia
Notable awards Order of Merit (Third Class)[1]

Volodymyr Stefanovych Biletskyy (Ukrainian: Володимир Стефанович Білецький) (born 1950 in Ukraine) is a Ukrainian scientist, and politician. Biletskyy is researcher in coal mining, professor of Donetsk National Technical University and Poltava National Technical Yuriy Kondratyuk University, an author and editor. He is the founder and Director of the Ukrainian Centre of Cultural Studies (Donetsk, Ukraine).

Scientific and research activities

At the University of Warsaw, researching De re metallica.

Resident in the coal mining area of Donbas for over 30 years, Biletskyy has devoted himself to mining technology - as a practicing engineer, inventor and scholar. Biletskyy was the science editor of the Mining Encyclopedia (1998–2013), which contributed to creating a nationally unified mining terminological system in Ukraine.

As a scientist, Biletskyy is interested in such areas as adhesion of liquids on hard surfaces, mineral processing, automatic control of mining processes, coal mining technologies, hydraulic coal transportation and coal-water separation.

Biletskyy is the owner of patents on various processing and transporting technologies in Ukraine and Russia. He is Biletskyy is a Heritage Foundation expert and represents Ukraine in the Global Nest.

Publications

Biletskyy has published over 450 academic papers, including more than 30 books (monographs, course books, dictionaries and encyclopedias), and 60 patented inventions to his credit. He is also the author of over 200 articles in popular science and science magazines. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the national scientific and informational-analytical magazine Skhid (since 1995 an academic periodical on philosophy, history and economics);[2] the founder and co-editor of the Donetsk Herald of Shevchenko Scientific Society and a regular contributor to the Ukrainian Wikipedia.

Public activities

Graduate of the International Community Connections Programme (2001), and expert[3] of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Biletskyy is also an activist. He was originally a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1975–1990). He later became one of the co-founders of the People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) in Donbas.[4] Biletskyy left Rukh in 1997. In 1997–2012, Biletskyy was consultant to the Deputies of Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), O.V. Kulyk, Ivan Drach, and O.I. Klymenko.

Biletskyy is a co-founder and head of the Donetsk branch of Shevchenko Scientific Society (1997),[5] the Donetsk branch of Ukrajina-Svit Association (1997), the Donetsk Regional Association of the Ukrainian language (1989). He heads the research and editing foundation Ukrainian Centre of Culture Studies (Donetsk, Ukraine), which he founded in 1994, and is currently on the Consultative Council for Nationalities Questions at the Donetsk Region State Administration.

References

  1. ↑ Decree of President of Ukraine № 939/2009 2009/11/18 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня Свободи»(Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Wołodymyr Biłećkyj. Czasopismo “Wschód” w przestrzeni informacyjnej Ukrainy // Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Nowa Ukraina. 1-2 (7-8) 2009. S.149-151.(Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Эксперты назвали варианты будущей коалиции и последствия выборов(Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Ковтун Володимир. Історія Народного Руху України. — К., 1995. — 382 с.(Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ branches of Shevchenko Scientific Society(Ukrainian)
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