L. F. Burlachuk

Leonid Fokich Burlachuk (; 1 January 1947 – 26 November 2022) was a Soviet and Ukrainian psychologist. Among his academic achievements belong: the Doctor of Sciences in Psychological Sciences, professor (1992), academician of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (2010).

Biography Burlachuk was born on 1 January 1947, in Leningrad. His father, (1914–1997), was a writer.

He studied at the Leningrad State University however subsequently transferred to the Kyiv State University, where in 1970 he graduated from the Psychology Department.

After graduation, he continued to work as an assistant, and later as an associate professor at the Department of Social and Pedagogical Psychology of the Kyiv State University. Later he became the head of the Department of Social and Pedagogical Psychology at the same university (1990-1992).

He wrote more than 200 scientific papers, including reference dictionaries, textbooks and teaching aids. His "Dictionary-Guide to Psychodiagnostics" is the most famous one. In 2008, Burlachuk together with partners founded "OS Ukraine”, which was the first Ukrainian publishing house of psychological tests.

Burlachuk prepared 40 candidates and 5 doctors of science. and the Ukrainian school of archetypes.

Awards Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine