Liudmyla Danylenko

Life in the Word. In Memoriam Academician V. M. Rusanivsky

Abstract: In 2021, we celebrate the anniversary of a world-class scholar, linguist – 90 years since the birth of Academician Vitaly Makarovich Rusanivsky. The purpose of the article is to explore the range of linguistic interests of the outstanding scholar, to consider his works and evaluate their significance for Ukrainian Slavic studies, to outline the defining human traits that together with his academician achievements give an idea of him as a person. V. M. Rusanivsky was born on June 25, 1931 in Kharkiv in a family of philologists. He graduated from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, studied in graduate school at the Department of Ukrainian Language. After successfully completing graduate school he came to work at Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he worked for the rest of his life. Rusanivsky's scientific interests were extremely wide. In total, his academician legacy includes more than 400 publications – books, textbooks, dictionaries, articles, reviews on comparative and historical linguistics, studies of literary monuments, sources of development of East Slavic literary languages, Ukrainian grammar, language culture, functional styles, theory and practice of lexicology and lexicography, linguistic Shevchenkiana, history of linguistic Slavic studies. Academician V.M. Rusanivsky has always combined intensive research work with no less intensive performance of scientific and organizational responsibilities. Since 1991 till 2007, V.M. Rusanivsky headed the Department of Western and South Slavic Languages at the Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which coordinated linguistic Slavic studies in Ukraine. For 24 years (1982–2006) he headed the Ukrainian Committee of Slavists and was a member of the International Committee of Slavists, the founder and the first chairman of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies (1989–1990). The defining individual traits of his character were erudition, responsible attitude towards his work, sense of humor, sociability.

Keywords: Academician V. M. Rusanivsky, linguistics, Ukrainian Slavic studies.

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• Liudmyla Danylenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, dankoua@ukr.net) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1812-973X

Cite:
Liudmyla Danylenko (2022). Life in the Word. In Memoriam Academician V. M. Rusanivsky. Academic Papers of The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, (63) 350-356. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.63.350

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