Mykola Swarnyk

Mykola Swarnyk (, born 23 February 1957, Lutsk, Volyn Oblast ) is a Ukrainian photographer, Wikipedian, and public figure. Candidate of Biological Sciences.

Biography He graduated from Lviv Secondary School No. 28 (1974) and Lviv Forestry Institute (1979). He worked as an engineer, a junior researcher at the Institute of Carpathian Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1979-1994), a lecturer at the Department of Physical Rehabilitation at the Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture (1996-2000), a lecturer in medical and social rehabilitation at the Lviv Medical College (1998-2000); a lecturer (2000-2002), associate professor (2002-2013) at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Lviv Polytechnic National University.

Public activities The newly formed supervisory board of the Dzherelo Training and Rehabilitation Center in Lviv, June 2013. He was the chairman of the "Nadiya" society (1992-1996), co-founder of the "Dzherelo" Training and Rehabilitation Center (since 1994), member of the Board of Education of the city of Lviv (2000-2005) and the board of the "Step by Step" Foundation (1999-2012); chairman of the Board of the Coalition for the Protection of Disabled and Intellectually Disabled Persons (2004-2013); corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Canada (2018); member of the board of the Ukrainian Canadian Social Service, Toronto Division (2014-2019). He was a member of the Reform and Order party.

Member of the Lviv City Council (2006-2010) from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction. Member of the Standing Committee on Medicine, Education, Science and Social Protection.

Scientific activity Author, co-author of about 80 scientific and popular science works, 10 manuals, collections and guidelines.