Maryna Paliienko

Maryna Hennadiivna Paliienko (; born 27 January 1968 in Kyiv) is a contemporary Ukrainian historian in the field of archival studies. Since 2017, she is the chair of the Department of Archival Studies and Special Fields of Historical Science at the Historical Faculty of the Kyiv University. Since 2020, she is the chief editor of „Ukrainian Archives“, a leading Ukrainian journal on archival studies.

Biography Maryna Paliienko was born in Kyiv in 1968. She studied at the Historical Faculty of the Kyiv University (1985-1990). In the early 1990s, she briefly worked at the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, before proceeding with graduate studies.

She obtained a PhD (Candidate of Sciences) degree in history in 1994, with the doctoral thesis focused on the role of Kievskaya starina сhronicle in the scientific and civic life of the Ukrainian society. In 2009, she obtained a Doctor of Sciences degree, presenting her second dissertation centered on the archival centers of Ukrainian immigrants in Europe in the 1920s to the 1940s.

Paliienko is the author of almost 200 scientific works. In 2006, her book on the Kievskaya starina сhronicle was recognized as one of the best books of the year in the field of history by the Ukrainian national award „Book of the Year“.