Yuri Meschenko

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Jurij Oleksijowytsch Meschenko ( Ukrainian Юрій Олексійович Меженко , Russian Юрий Алексеевич Меженко Yuri Alekseyevich Meschenko , actual surname Ivanov * June 6 jul. / 18th June  1892 greg. In Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 24. November 1969 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Soviet - Ukrainian bibliographer , literary scholar , historian, and collector.

Meeting Kharkiv and Kiev artists in 1923. Left to right. First row: Maksym Rylskyj , Jurij Meschenko , Mykola Chwylowyj , Majk Johansen , Hryhorij Mychailow , Mychajlo Werykiwskyj . Second row: Natalja Romanowytsch , Mychailo Mohyljanskyj , Wassyl Ellan-Blakytnyj , Serhij Pylypenko , Pawlo Tytschyna , Pawlo Fylypowytsch . Third row: Mykola Serow , Mychajlo Draj-Chmara , Hryhorij Kossynka , Volodymyr Sosjura , Teodosij Osmatschka , Volodymyr Korjak , Mychailo Ivchenko

Life

Yuri Meschenko was born into a family of doctors in Kharkiv. He graduated from Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1917 . Subsequently, Meschenko was initially a founding member and from 1919 to 1922 director of the Council of the National Library of Ukraine , then from August 1, 1922 to August 7, 1931 director of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Bibliology and between 1923 and 1930 editor of the quarterly journal Бібліологічні вісті Bibliolohitschni wisti . After the institute was closed, he was accused of Ukrainian nationalism and forced to work outside of Ukraine.

"Bibliolohitschni wisti" from 1924

He moved to Leningrad on December 16, 1934 and began working at the bibliographic department of the Leningrad State Public Library , where he was appointed deputy head on April 7, 1935. During the Leningrad blockade he was a member of the commission that rescued valuable books from the private collections of Leningrad bibliophiles. On March 25, 1944, he was awarded the academic rank of senior scientist.

One year after the end of the blockade, Meschenko returned to Ukraine and was director of the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Kiev from April 6, 1945 to February 1, 1948 . In 1948 he moved again to Leningrad and worked from 1948 to 1951 as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Technology of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and from 1953 to 1960 he headed the book and graphics department of the Leningrad House of Scientists of the Academy of Sciences named after Gorky USSR . After he retired in 1960, he returned to Kiev, where he died in 1969 at the age of 77 and was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery .

Meschenko was the author of numerous works on Ukrainian history, book studies, bibliography and theater criticism. Between 1911 and 1962, Meschenko amassed a unique collection of publications (over 15,000) relating to the life and work of Taras Shevchenko , which he bequeathed to the Literature Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Jurij Meschenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Jurij Meschenko in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on August 17, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Yuri Meschenko on the website of the Russian National Library ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (Russian)
  4. ↑ a b Biography of Yuri Meschenko in the Ukrainian Library Encyclopedia ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b Entry on Jurij Meschenko in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Meschenko, Yuri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meschenko, Jurij Oleksijowytsch (full name); Ivanov, Jurij; Меженко, Юрій Олексійович (Ukrainian); Меженко, Юрий Алексеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Ukrainian bibliographer, literary scholar, historian and collector
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1969
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR