Mychajlo Ptucha

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Mykhaylo Wassyljowytsch Ptucha ( Ukrainian Михайло Васильович Птуха , Russian Михаил Васильевич Птуха Mikhail Vasilyevich Ptucha ; born October 26, jul. / 7. November  1884 greg. In Oster , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 3. October 1961 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet statistician , demographer and economist .

Life

Mychajlo Ptucha was born in the city of Oster in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Chernihiv, the son of an employee of the district administration. After graduating from school in Oster, he worked in the statistics department in Chernigov's government department in 1898 and graduated from high school in Novorossiysk in 1904 .

Grave of Mychajlo Ptucha in the Baikowe Cemetery in Kiev

From 1906 he studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Saint Petersburg , which he graduated in 1910. In preparation for his professorship, he then worked at the Faculty of Political Economy and Statistics there and was a guest student at the University of Berlin in 1910/1911 . Between 1913 and 1916 he worked as a private lecturer at St. Petersburg University and in 1917/1918 he was dean of the Faculty of Law in Perm .

In 1918 he moved to Kiev and in the same year founded the Institute for Demography (from 1934 Institute for Demography and Health Statistics ) of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences , which he headed until 1938. In 1920 he became a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The Institute for Demography and Health Statistics was closed in 1938 in connection with the final classification of demographic statistics. Ptucha himself was arrested on February 21, 1938 and sentenced by an army tribunal in Kiev. On January 19, 1940, he was released on baseless charges.

Between 1940 and 1950 he headed the statistics department for the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and from 1945 to 1950 also the Institute of Social Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR . During the Second World War in 1941/1942 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences in Ufa . In 1943 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and was a guest of the academy between 1944 and 1947 as a research assistant at its institute for economics . In addition, Ptucha taught at several higher educational institutions in Kiev.

Ptucha lived on Lutheran Street (Ukrainian: Лютеранська вулиця ) No. 21/12 in Kiev- Pechersk . There he died at the age of 76 and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery in Kiev.

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Ptucha's research on population statistics was of great importance. He published works on the general theory of statistics, on theoretical and applied demography, and on the history of statistics and demography.

Honors

  • 1944 Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1944 Order of the Red Banner of Labor
  • 1945 Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
  • On September 15, 2001, a memorial plaque was placed on his former home on Lutherische Strasse 21/12.
  • In November 2009, by decision of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Institute of Demography and Social Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was named after him.

Web links

Commons : Mychajlo Ptucha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry on Mychajlo Ptucha in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 28, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Mychajlo Ptucha in the encyclopedia of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev ; accessed on May 28, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography on the website of the Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine ; accessed on May 29, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Mychajlo Ptucha website on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on May 28, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ entry to Mychajlo Ptucha in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on May 28, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ a b Entry on Michail Wassiljewitsch Ptucha in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979, on The Free Dictionary ; accessed on 2018 (English)
  7. ↑ Awards and Honors Mychajlo Ptucha on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on May 28, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Ptucha, Mychajlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ptucha, Mychajlo Wassyljowytsch (full name); Птуха, Михайло Васильович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet statistician, demographer and economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Oster , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1961
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR