Larysa Krushelnytska

Larysa Ivanivna Krushelnytska (5 April 1928 – 12 November 2017) was a Ukrainian archaeologist, librarian, doctor of historical sciences, and professor (1999).

Biography Larysa Krushelnytska is a member of famous Ukrainian family. She was born in Stryi. From 1930, she lived with her relatives in Lviv. In 1934 she moved with her father to Kharkiv, and after the extermination of the Krushelnytskyi family, she returned to her mother in Lviv in 1937. In 1943 Krushelnyska left Lviv, occupied by the Germans, to Vienna, and then to Stuttgart, where she studied at the Academy of Arts. Then she was forced to work at an aluminum plant in the Third Reich.

In 1945 after returning to Lviv, Krushelnytska worked as a restoration artist at the Museum of Ukrainian Art and completed her secondary education through an externship.

A significant contribution of Krushelnytska is her substantiation of the phenomenon of the development of the Carpathian and Volyn lands as a contact zone and peripheral territory in relation to the ethno-cultural massifs of Eastern and Central Europe.

In 2008, she was awarded the Order of Princess Olga III degree and the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In 2011, Krushelnytska was awarded the Order of Princess Olga of the II degree.

Family Mother - Halyna Lvivna Levytska, a pianist, professor at the Music Institute named after Lysenko (1930-1939), Lviv Conservatory (1939-1949), died in Lviv in 1949.

Selected works

Northern Prykarpattia and Western Volhynia during the Early Iron Age. - Kyiv, 1976. - 146 p. Interrelationships of the population of Prykarpattia and Volhynia with the tribes of Eastern and Central Europe. - Kyiv, 1985. - 162 p. Chernoles culture of Middle Transnistria: Based on the materials of the Neporot group of monuments. - Lviv, 1998. - 223 p. Lviv Scientific Library named after V. Stefanyka of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: documents, facts, comments / Ref. L. I. Krushelnytska.- Lviv, 1996. - P. 3-99.