TO THE 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY OF LVIV UNIVERSITY

Abstract

In 2024, the Department of Mineralogy of Lviv University will celebrate its 160th anniversary. It was the only Department of Mineralogy in Ukraine with this name until 2020. The history of the Department is described in numerous scientific and reference works of different years. Currently, Professor Orest Matkovskyi Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry conducts active educational, methodological and scientific activities, provides lectures, laboratory and practical classes, educational field and industrial practices of bachelors and masters in the specialty 103 “Earth Sciences” (Mineralogy and crystallography). The article characterizes the Department's multifaceted activities over the past ten years. In particular, during this period, 13 different educational and methodical publications were published, active student scientific work and career guidance activities were conducted among schoolchildren. Employees of the department closely cooperate with various domestic and foreign scientific and industrial institutions. Close cooperation between employers and participants of the educational process has been established. The active scientific activity of the Department's employees is closely related to the Mineralogical School of Academician Yevhen Lazarenko, officially approved in Ukraine. Scientists of the Department are authors and co-authors of eight monographs and more than 230 articles in national and international periodicals of various ranks, were participants in many scientific meetings and conferences of various levels in Ukraine and abroad. Together with the Ukrainian Mineralogical Society, the Department organized the Academician Yevhen Lazarenko Twelfth Scientific Readings in December 2022. The Department oversees the “Mineralogical Collection” – the first scientific periodical in the mineralogical direction in Ukraine, launched in 1947. In 2024, the “Mineralogical Collection” was included in the list of printed scientific periodicals of the “B ”category. Mineralogical Museum named after Academician Yevhen Lazarenko has become a popular tourist attraction for various categories of visitors. For the 170th anniversary of the foundation of the Museum in December 2023, an international scientific and practical conference “Geological Museums and Collections: Their Role in Science, Education and Tourism” was held. Six international scientific and practical conferences entitled “Geotourism: Practice and Experience” (since 2014), the last of which was held in April 2024, are dedicated to the results of geotourism research, in which employees of the Department and the Mineralogical Museum take an active part.