Valeriy Smoliy

Valeriy Andriyovych Smoliy
MFST
Валерій Андрійович Смолій
Born (1950-01-01) 1 January 1950 (age 74)
Avratyn, Kamianets-Podilsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
NationalityUkrainian
CitizenshipUkraine
Alma materKamyanets-Podilsky Institute
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsInstitute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Valeriy Smoliy (Ukrainian: Валерій Андрійович Смолій) is a Ukrainian academician, historian, and director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine.

Smoliy was born on 1 January 1950 in the village of Avratyn, Volochysk Raion, Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast.

In 1970, he graduated from the historical faculty of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Pedagogic Institute. After that, Smoliy worked as a rural teacher in schools in Ternopil Oblast and as a teacher assistant at the Nizhyn Pedagogic Institute.

Since 1972, Smoliy has worked at the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. In 1975 he defended his candidate thesis "Union of the right-bank Ukraine with Ukrainian lands within the Russian state" (Ukrainian: Возз'єднання Правобережної України з українськими землями у складі Російської держави) and in 1985 his doctorate thesis "Social consciousness of Ukrainian national movements participants (second half of the 17th-18th centuries)" (Ukrainian: Суспільна свідомість учасників народних рухів України (друга половина XVII–XVIII ст.)). Since 1986, Smoliy has been heading one of the departments of the institute. In 1991, he was elected deputy director of the institute. In 1992, he was admitted to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a corresponding member.

Since 1993, Smoliy has been a director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine. In 1995, he became a full member, an academician, of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In 1997–1999, Smoliy served as a Vice-Prime Minister on humanitarian issues in the government of Valeriy Pustovoitenko.