Today, July 24, 2025, a round table was held at the Oleksa Dovbush Historical and Memorial Museum on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Ukraine, Honorary Professor of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University Volodymyr Vasylyovych Hrabovetsky. Its organizers were the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of Teaching History of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, the Oleksa Dovbush Historical and Memorial Museum and the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Organization of the National Union of Local Loreologists of Ukraine. The Head of the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of Teaching History I.Ya. Raykivskyi moderated the event.
During the round table, the acting Rector of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Ihor Tsependa, Director of the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Ihor Solyar, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Department of Modern History of Ukraine of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Oleksiy Sukhyi, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations of the Carpathian University Ihor Hurak, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of Teaching History I.Ya. Raykivskyi, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Organization of the National Union of Local History Scholars of Ukraine, Director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Center for Tourism and Local History of Schoolchildren Mykhailo Kosylo, as well as Candidate of Historical Sciences, son of Volodymyr Hrabovetskyi Bohdan Hrabovetskyi.
As part of the event, a collective monograph prepared by colleagues and students of V.V. Hrabovetsky was presented, entitled “Volodymyr Hrabovetsky – Historian of Ukraine” (edited by I.E. Tsependa, I.Ya. Raikovsky and O.I. Yegreshiy. 338 p.). The monograph, prepared on the basis of the IV Hrabovetsky Historical Readings, which took place in the historical homeland of the professor in the village of Pechenyzhyn, consists of three parts: 1) Volodymyr Hrabovetsky as a scientist, teacher and public figure; 2) Regional studies in Ukraine: history and current state; 3) Historical local history and biographical studies in the Carpathian region. The co-authors of the collective publication were well-known scientists, former colleagues and students of V.V. Hrabovetsky, historians and local lore experts: doctors of sciences, professors Oleksandr Gurzhiy, Mykola Kuhutyak, Ihor Pylypiv, Petro Siredzhuk, Vasyl Marchuk, Stepan Borchuk, Serhiy Adamovych, etc. Among the co-authors were both well-known scientists, authors of numerous historical and local lore studies (Volodymyr Pryshlyak, Andriy Korolko, Oleh Yegreshiy, Stepan Kobuta, Petro Kostyuchok, Bohdan Paska, Ivan Tymiv, Liliya Shcherbin, etc.), as well as young researchers, postgraduate students and graduates of the master’s degree (Andriy Boyda, Svitlana Halemchuk, Andriy Zhuk, Ivanna Paliychuk, etc.), a total of 29 authors.
During the round table, in an informal atmosphere, they shared their thoughts on the multifaceted activities and creative heritage of V.V. Hrabovets’s work was shared by his students, colleagues, museum workers: Ihor Raykivskyi, Volodymyr Pryshlyak, Volodymyr Fedorak, Yuriy Sraychuk, Maria Vuyanko, Dariya Onyskiv, Volodymyr Vasylovych’s fellow countryman and pupil, former graduate Ivan Kotiv, Oleg Yegreshiy, Stepan Kobuta, Andriy Korolko, Bohdan Paska, Petro Kostyuchok, Liliya Shcherbin, Ruslan Delyatynskyi, Volodymyr Bakala and others.
The main task of the round table is to generalize the source and historiographic achievements of the scientific, historical and local history and museum work of V.V. Hrabovetskyi, creative understanding of new methodological approaches to the study of the history of Ukraine, historical local history and museology. Its holding testified not only to the deep respect of the academic community for the figure of Volodymyr Hrabovetskyi, but also to the continuity of the traditions of historical science that the professor formed, and their living continuation in the present day.