Anastasiya Kobzarenko | |
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Анастасія Кобзаренко | |
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| Born | Anastasiya Stepanivna Kobzarenko 8 May 1934 |
| Died | 1 August 2022 (aged 88) |
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| Years active | 1955–2022 |
| Organizations | National Library of Ukraine for Children |
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Anastasiya Stepanivna Kobzarenko (Ukrainian: Анастасія Степанівна Кобзаренко; 8 May 1934 – 1 August 2022) was a Ukrainian director, librarian, and writer. She began her career working as an instructor at the Lykhniv District Department of Culture of the Dnipropetrovsk Region and was librarian of Kryvyi Rih City Library No 4. in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast between 1955 and 1958. Kobzarenko was also an inspector at the Ministry of Culture of the USSR from 1960 to 1966 and director general of the State Republican Library for Children (today the National Library of Ukraine for Children) from the late 1960s to 2013. She authored more than twenty publications on library works and wrote more than 100 articles focusing on the problems faced by libraries. Kobzarenko was a 1998 recipient of the Order of Princess Olga, Third Class and was made a Hero of Ukraine in 2009.