DEPARTMENT OF PETROGRAPHY OF THE LVIV UNIVERSITY (TO THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDATION)

Abstract

The comprehensive activities of the Department of Petrography, which was founded in 1945, were briefly analysed. It was the only department in Ukraine that had such a name and trained petrographers. In 2020, as a result of the reorganization of the Faculty of Geology, it was merged with the Department of Mineralogy, and now it is the Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry named after Professor Orest Matkovskyi. The contribution of the Department's staff to the development of petrology and lithology is described. Some aspects of the educational process, achievements in the preparation and publication of educational and methodological literature are highlighted. The Department trained petrographers for such countries as Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Vietnam, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Laos, Mongolia, East Germany, Senegal, Syria, Turkmenistan in different years. A grinding workshop was created at the Department in 1946, and in 1950 ‒ an interdepartmental laboratory of lithological research, which in 2020 was merged with the laboratory of physical methods of research of minerals and rocks and is now a laboratory of mineralogical and petrological research. The main scientific directions developed at the Department since its foundation by the famous professors V. Soboliev, D. Bobrovnyk, O. Bobriievych, K. Sveshnikov, their colleagues and students are analysed. The scientific publications of the Department staff, as well as their active participation in the organization and holding of various scientific forums of various ranks, are characterized. Students and staff of the Department of Petrography participated in the activities of the interfaculty student research group «Shelf» in 1976‒1993, and in the ecological and cultural expedition «Dniester» ‒ in 1995‒2010, 2025. Currently, the Department is developing such main scientific areas as mineralogical and geochemical studies of hydrothermal and magmatic deposits; petrological studies of magmatic and metamorphic complexes; lithology of sedimentary complexes; mineralogical and geochemical support during restoration work, etc. To implement the tasks set, the Department's specialists actively cooperate with domestic and foreign scientific and production institutions.