Volodymyr Dobrianskyi
Volodymyr Dobrianskyi (, born December 12, 1966, in Horodok) is a Ukrainian scientist, archaeologist, historian, speleologist, and researcher of antiquities, fortifications and toponymy. He became a member of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments in 1981, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 2000, and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine from 2016 to 2020. He also co-founded the NGO "Alternative-Chortkiv". He also participated in liquidating the Chernobyl accident of the second category. Dobrianskyi comes from an ancient family of the Polish nobility with the coat of arms of Sas. Biography. Dobrianskyi graduated  from the Faculty of History of Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsi State University in (1994), then worked as a history teacher in the Chortkiv region, and was secretary of the Historical and Educational Society "Memorial", a researcher at the Ternopil Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Chortkiv centralized library system, and a senior researcher at the Chortkiv Municipal Museum of Local Lore. From 1985 to 1987, Dobrianskyi served in the Ukrainian army. During his military service in the 3,238th military unit, he took part in the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident (from April–May 1986, and again from November 1986-January 1987 ). Research activities. Dobrianskyi has written over 100 scientific publications in professional journals, as well as many local lore and journalistic articles in the press. Research and Discoveries: Dobrianskyi has discovered over 100 archeological monuments in the territory of Zalishchyk, Borshchiv, Buchach, Chortkiv, Husiatyn and Terebovlya districts; He located about 30 objects from defensive fortifications (settlements, castles, redoubts, lunettes) in Dobrovlyany, Lysychnyky, Bedrykivtsi, , Shmankivtsi, Shershenivka, Zvenigorod, Yablunov, Kotsyubyntsi; He has investigated about 50 previously unknown caves in Gorodok, Zozulyntsi, Kasperivtsi, Chortkiv, Uhryn, Shmankivtsi and other settlements of the Ternopil region. Another area of activity is Dobrianskyi's study of ancient relics  of ancient Slavic vocabulary, which are reflected in the toponymy of the region; on the basis of archaeological surveys of localities these can be used to reconstruct ancient oikonyms (settlements). In 2019, while scaling the 40-meter high tower of the Chortkiv Church, Dobrianskyi found a detonator for a fragmentation projectile from the Chortkiv offensive. On April 13, 2021, together with the director of the Ternopil Regional Center for the Protection and Research of Cultural Heritage Marina Yagodynska, archaeologist Vasyl Ilchyshyn and others, Dobrianskyi excavated a burial site dating from the late third millennium BC near the village of Bely  Potik in the Chortkiv region. Dobrianskyi takes part in many International and All-Ukrainian scientific conferences in Ternopil, Zbarazh, Vyshnivka, Kremenets, Lviv, Vynnyky, Uzhhorod, Kyiv, Pereyaslav, Khmelnytsky, Medzhibozh, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk.