New Personalized Audience at the Faculty of Geology

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March 13, 2013, 16:17

An audience named after V.I Vernadsky was opened at the Faculty of Geology of Kyiv National University (KNU). The professor of the Department of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrography, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Volodymyr Pavlyshyn gave comments on the event. This personalized audience was opened thanks to his efforts. It took Volodymyr Ivanovych five years to prove to the leadership of the KNU that Academician V.I. Vernadsky worked at the university and why it is expedient to open an audience named after his glorious name at the Faculty of Geology.

When you are in the classroom, you can feel the spirit of that era: the interior in the style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there are things of the time - scales, a microscope. The portrait of V.I. Vernadsky made by the Kyiv artist K. Pavlyshyn decorates the audience. In the audience, there is a plaster bust of Academician V.I. Vernadsky, donated to the Faculty of Geology by Stanislav Dovgim; an interesting mineralogical collection donated by Natalia Lazarenko; a small library consisting of the works of Vernadsky and the scientific works of the scientist's followers, books about him, collected over the years by Volodymyr Pavlyshyn.

It is clear that the opening of the audience named after Vernadsky at the Faculty of Geology at Kyiv University is an outstanding event. After all, the audience attests to the memory of the brilliant scientist of Ukrainian origin, Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky - a thinker and naturalist, founder of new disciplines and institutions, historian of science and politics, closely associated with the University of Kyiv (formerly, St. Volodymyr University) in 1918-1919.

V.I. Vernadsky was in Kyiv at least 7 times. The longest (about 19 months) and the most fruitful period of his stay here falls on 1918-1919. At that time and in this city he fulfilled his historical mission. He founded and headed the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (UAN), the National Library at the Academy (now, V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine), other centers.