← Home

Petro Volvach

Petro Volvach is a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh), a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine (NSPU), an Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a laureate of the L. P. Symyrenko Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), a Symyrenko scholar, a Crimean journalist, a researcher of Crimean history, the author of numerous articles in the newspaper Krymska Svitlytsia, and the compiler of reprint editions of the works of Levko Symyrenko.

Overview

Petro Volvach is one of the key authors of the newspaper Krymska Svitlytsia, who researches the history of Crimean horticulture, economy, education, water management, demography, and culture. He took an active part in the creation of a collection of indigenous varieties of fruit crops in the early 1990s together with a team of enthusiasts around the newspaper Holos Krymu (Voice of Crimea) and the Republican Library named after Ismail Gasprinsky. He compiled and translated from russian the book by Levko Symyrenko, Local Ancient Varieties of Fruit Crops of Crimea (1996), initiated the reprint edition of Volume 1 of Crimean Industrial Fruit Growing (2001), and reconstructed and published Volume 2 of this fundamental work (2008).

Key Details / Subtopics

• Research into Crimean horticulture: Together with researchers of the Crimean Horticulture Station, he participated in the creation of a collection of indigenous varieties of fruit crops, the inventory of chayir (garden) plantings, and the expeditionary survey of Crimean orchards.
• Revival of the Symyrenko heritage:
• In 1996 he compiled and translated from russian the monograph Mestnye starodavnie sorta plodovykh kul'tur Kryma (Local Ancient Varieties of Fruit Crops of Crimea) by L. P. Symyrenko, published by Tavriia.
• In 2001, with the active support of the public, he organized the reprint edition of the first volume of Crimean Industrial Fruit Growing (1912) for the 150th anniversary of the scholar's birth.
• After 10 years of archival searches and work at the Symyrenko Family Museum in the Cherkasy region, he located the scattered fragments of the manuscript of the second volume and in 2008 reconstructed and published Volume 2 under the Ukrainian Book program.
• Themes of articles in Krymska Svitlytsia: The history of horticulture ("The State of Horticulture and Viticulture in Crimea in the First Post-War Decade," "Decisive Steps to Revive the Branches," "Labor Etched into Eternity," "Ambitious Intentions and Plans"), vegetable growing ("The Most Backward Branch in Post-War Crimea"), the fishing industry ("A Peninsula Between Two Seas… and Without Fish"), the sanatorium-resort economy ("A Decade of Stagnation of the Crimean Sanatorium-Resort Branch"), energy ("Energy Sources of the Peninsula"), transport ("The Road to the Sea" about the trolleybus route), education ("Ukrainian Philology at Tavriia University"), agriculture ("Here You Go, Neighbor, What I Don't Need…"), water management ("Whose Bank, His Water," "The Price of Crimean Prosperity," and "A Mythical Project at Ukraine's Expense" about the construction of the North Crimean Canal, the South Ukrainian Canal and the Kakhovka Reservoir, the flooding of the Great Meadow, the militaristic-propagandistic context, cotton growing and the environmental and cultural losses of Ukraine), medicine ("Ukraine Heals Crimean Medicine"), personnel rotation ("A Fundamental Renewal of Cadres as the Key to the Revival of Crimea"), infrastructure, deportations, and the demographic replacement of the population ("The Resettlement of Ukrainians to Crimea in the 1950s"), as well as the russification of Crimea ("The Kremlin Architects of the 'Primordially russian' Crimea").

Sources and Links

• The State of Horticulture and Viticulture in Crimea in the First Post-War Decade — an article by Petro Volvach on the post-war degradation of horticulture and viticulture in Crimea (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, nos. 9–10).
• Labor Etched into Eternity — an article by Petro Volvach on the life of Levko Symyrenko, the seizure of his works by the Cheka, and the publication of Volumes 1 and 2 (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, no. 8).
• A Mythical Project at Ukraine's Expense — an article by Petro Volvach on the unrealized South Ukrainian Canal and the resource-financial burden on the Ukrainian SSR (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2018, no. 4).
• A Peninsula Between Two Seas… and Without Fish — an article by Petro Volvach on the state of the fishing economy of post-war Crimea (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, no. 23).
• Maritime Fishing and the Fishing Industry of Crimea — a concept page on the development and reconstruction of the fishing branch.
• A Fundamental Renewal of Cadres as the Key to the Revival of Crimea — an article by Petro Volvach on the rotation of managerial cadres in the Crimean Region (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, no. 35).
• The Most Backward Branch in Post-War Crimea — an article by Petro Volvach on the decline and reconstruction of Crimean vegetable growing and truck farming (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2018, no. 27).
• Kozy-Bash: The Return of a Legend — an article by Petro Volvach on the discovery of a rare apple variety.
• The Kremlin Architects of the "Primordially russian" Crimea — an article by Petro Volvach on the ethnic composition of Crimea according to the 1989 census and the policy of russification (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, nos. 27–28).
• Whose Bank, His Water — an article by Petro Volvach on the causes, stages, and economic effect of the North Crimean Canal (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2018, no. 5).
• The Price of Crimean Prosperity — an article by Petro Volvach in the newspaper Krymska Svitlytsia (2018, no. 3) on the price of creating the Kakhovka Reservoir and the canal.
• The Resettlement of Ukrainians to Crimea in the 1950s — an article by Petro Volvach on the study of the mass resettlement of Ukrainians to Crimea in the first post-war decade (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, nos. 3–4).
• South Ukrainian Canal — a concept page on the unrealized irrigation project.
• Personnel Renewal of the Party Apparatus and Economy of Crimea (1953–1955) — a concept on the personnel restructuring in Crimea.
• Pavlo Tytov — a primary figure removed during the personnel rotation of 1953.
• Dmytro Polianskyi — head of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) (1954–1955), studied by Volvach.
• Vasyl Komiakov — Polianskyi's successor as regional committee secretary, studied by Volvach.
• Vegetable Growing and Truck Farming in Crimea — a concept on the development and technological revolution in vegetable growing after 1954.
• The Great Resettlement of Ukrainians to Crimea — a concept page on the settlement of the peninsula.
• The Migration Policy of the Kremlin in Crimea and Ukraine (1944–1950s) — a concept page on the demographic policy of the Kremlin.
• Forced Resettlement by Entire Collective Farms and the Demolition of Villages (1951–1953) — a concept page on the organization of resettlement by entire farms.
• North Crimean Canal — a concept page on the trunk canal, studied by Volvach.
• Kakhovka Reservoir and Kakhovka HPP — a concept page on the reservoir, studied by Volvach.
• The Flooding of the Great Meadow — a concept page on the flooding of the Cossack floodplains and villages.
• The Environmental and Cultural Cost of Irrigation — a concept page on the consequences of irrigation construction.
• Cotton Growing in Crimea — a concept page on the cotton campaign of the 1940s–1950s.
• Horticulture and Viticulture in Crimea — a concept page that references Volvach's article.
• Kozy-Bash — a Crimean Apple Variety — a concept page on the variety described in Volvach's article.
• Crimean Industrial Fruit Growing (the book by Levko Symyrenko) — a concept page on the book whose reprint was compiled by Petro Volvach.
• Levko Symyrenko — an entity on the author of the work reprinted by Volvach.
• Andrii Shchekun — the chief editor of Krymska Svitlytsia, where Petro Volvach is published.
• Water Supply of Crimea in the Post-War Decade (1944–1954) — Volvach's article on the water crisis in Crimea (2017).
• First Signs of the Ukrainization of Crimea — Volvach's article on the Ukrainization decisions of 1954–1955 (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, no. 36).
• First Steps of the Ukrainization of Crimea (1954–1955) — a concept of Ukrainization built on the analysis of archival documents in Volvach's publication.
• Ten Years Without Its Own Food — an article on the food crisis and the decline of animal husbandry and vegetable growing in post-war Crimea (2017, no. 21).
• The Food Situation in Crimea in the Post-War Decade (1944–1954) — a concept on the decade-long food deficit in Crimea.
• The Ukrainian Theater in Crimea — Volvach's article on the creation of the Crimean Regional Ukrainian Musical-Dramatic Theater (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, nos. 37–38).
• Crimean Science in the First Post-War Decade — Volvach's article "Science at the Crossroads" on the neglected state of Crimean science on the eve of the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, nos. 15–16).
• The Center of Crimean Horticulture — an article by Petro Volvach on the history of the founding and activity of the Salhyrka Horticultural Experimental Station (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2018, nos. 19, 21).
• Salhyrka Horticultural Experimental Station — a research institution whose history was studied by Petro Volvach.
• The Legacy of the "Muscovite Cuckoo" in Crimean Schooling — an article by Petro Volvach in the newspaper Krymska Svitlytsia (2017, nos. 42–43) on the construction of schools and children's institutions in Crimea after 1954.
• The Rollback of the Short-Lived Ukrainization of Crimea — an article by Petro Volvach in the newspaper Krymska Svitlytsia (2018, nos. 47–48) on language-educational policy and the rollback of Ukrainization in Crimea.
• The Rollback of Ukrainization in Crimea — a concept of the policy of rolling back Ukrainian-language institutions in Crimea.
• School Education in Crimea — the history and state of school construction in Crimea, studied by P. Volvach.
• Mykhailo Hrechukha — a Ukrainian SSR official responsible for educational construction and the conference on the study of the Ukrainian language.
• Mykola Pidhornyi — the second secretary of the Central Committee of the CPU, whose speech in Simferopol was analyzed by Volvach.
• The Keeper of Pristine Crimea — an article by Petro Volvach on the biography and legacy of Vasyl Sokornov (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, no. 29).
• Vasyl Sokornov — a Crimean photographer whose biography and legacy were studied by Petro Volvach.
• A Decade of Stagnation of the Crimean Sanatorium-Resort Branch — an article by Petro Volvach on the decline, the absence of urban master plans, war destruction, and the decade-long stagnation of the sanatorium-resort economy in post-war Crimea (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, nos. 13–14).
• Whose Language and Education, His the State: The First Attempts at Ukrainization in Crimea — an article by Petro Volvach in the newspaper Krymska Svitlytsia (2017, no. 32) on the first cultural-educational steps of Ukrainization in Crimea in 1954–1955.
• The Ukrainian Reservoirs of Crimea — an article by Petro Volvach on the history of the creation of Crimean reservoirs (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, no. 48).
• The Sanatorium-Resort Infrastructure of Crimea — a concept page on the history and development of the sanatorium-resort economy and its post-war state.
• The Reservoirs of Crimea — a concept on the natural-flow and off-channel reservoirs of the peninsula.
• Who Then Rebuilt Crimea in the First Post-War Years? — an article by Petro Volvach on the reconstruction of Crimea by Ukrainian resettlers from 1944, the 1991 referendum, and the assessments of Yegor Gaidar (Krymska Svitlytsia, 2017, no. 1).
• Ukraine's Contribution to the Reconstruction of Crimea (1944–1954) — a concept on the mass organized recruitment of resettlers from the Ukrainian SSR and the reconstruction of the peninsula with Ukrainian resources.
• Yegor Gaidar — a russian politician whose assessment of Crimea's dependence on Ukraine was studied by Volvach.