Yurii Oleksiyovych Nikolaets

Head of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.

Born on March 15, 1973, in the urban-type settlement of Dymer, Vyshgorod district, Kyiv region.

In 1995, he graduated with honors from the Historical Faculty of Vinnytsia State Pedagogical Institute named after M. Kotsyubynsky. He studied in the postgraduate and doctoral programs at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He became a Candidate of Historical Sciences (1999), Doctor of Historical Sciences (2009), Associate Professor (2004), and Professor (2014).

He taught at Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University named after M. Kotsyubynsky, Vinnytsia Institute of Regional Economics and Management, and Vinnytsia State Agrarian University. Since 2009, he has been working at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a Senior Research Fellow. From February 2023, he served as the Acting Head of the Department, and since December 2023, he has been the Head of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology.

He is a member of the Academic Council of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is a member of the specialized academic council D 26.181.01 for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Political Sciences at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is also a member of the specialized academic council D 26.235.01 for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

He has participated in over 150 domestic and international scientific and scientific-practical conferences. He has supervised the preparation of doctoral dissertations. He has served as an official opponent during the defense of 44 dissertations for the degree of Candidate or Doctor of Historical Sciences.

He is a reviewer for the scientific professional journal “Political Studies.”

He is the author of over 140 scientific articles, 6 monographs, and a co-author of monographs such as “Donbas in the Ethnopolitical Dimension,” “Galicia in the Ethnopolitical Dimension,” “Ukraine in World War II: A View from the 21st Century,” “Policy of Social Reforms: Strategy, Mechanisms, Resources,” “Democratization of Political Institutions and Social Development in Ukraine,” “National Minorities of Ukraine in Political Processes of the 20th-21st Centuries: Status and Research Problems,” “Political Process in Independent Ukraine: Results and Problems,” “Hierarchy of Values of the Population of Southern and Eastern Ukraine: Ethnopolitical Aspect in the Context of Russian Aggression,” “Political System of Ukraine: Constitutional Model and Political Practices,” “Dialectics of National-Civic and Ethnic in Ukrainian Society,” “Adaptive Changes in Ukraine’s Political Field,” “Political Security of Ukraine: Problems of Political and State Governance. Forecast Assessment, Mechanisms of Provision,” and the National Report “Political Aspects of the Crisis in Donbas: State Diagnosis and Directions for Resolution.”

Research interests: historiography, historical policy, the development of the media sphere, the history of wars, and armed conflicts.