IN MEMORY OF THE OUTSTANDING SCIENTIST-GEOLOGIST AND TEACHER – PROFESSOR JAROSLAV KULCHYTSKYI (ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH)

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Yaroslav Onufriyovych Kulchytskyi, a prominent professor at Lviv University, is a well-known Ukrainian geologist, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, long-time head of the Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology, an unsurpassed researcher of the Carpathian region, co-author of the Geological Map of the Ukrainian Carpathians (scale 1:200,000) and geological maps of deep sections of the Ukrainian crust, regional stratigraphic schemes of Cretaceous, Paleogene and Miocene sediments of western Ukraine. Yaroslav Onufriyovych’s scientific interests cover important and diverse areas in the field of fundamental and applied developments in the field of earth sciences and are multifaceted: geology of the Carpathians, paleontology, stratigraphy, tectonics (evolution of geosynclines, regularities of cyclic development of the tectonosphere, interconnection of tectonic movements and processes of sedimentogenesis), hydrogeology, lithofacies studies, geology of minerals, etc. He was a member of the stratigraphic, tectonic and sedimentological commissions of the KBGA and an organizer of many scientific conferences and symposia.