Nadiya Babych

Nadiya Denisovna Babych (; 29 December 1943 – 12 April 2021) was a Ukrainian linguist, journalist, and philologist. A faculty member of her Alma mater, Chernivtsi University, she was the author of approximately 280 texts (prefaces to publications, scientific articles and reviews) on stylistics, the culture of language, rhetoric, phraseology, history of language, sociolinguistics, Ukrainian studies, inter-lingual and intercultural contacts and the history of pedagogy in Bukovina. Babych was appointed Order of Princess Olga, Third Class in 2007.

Early life Babych was born in Chernivtsi on 29 December 1943. When she was young, she had the objective of becoming a doctor. Babych was a 1966 honours graduate of Chernivtsi University's Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature of the Philological Faculty. While at university, she worked as an seamstress at an rubber and shoe factory as well as doing proofreading at the university and later the regional printing house.

There were about 280 texts (prefaces to publications, scientific articles and reviews) on stylistics, the culture of language, rhetoric, phraseology, history of language, sociolinguistics, Ukrainian studies, inter-lingual and intercultural contacts and the history of pedagogy in Bukovina published by Babych during her lifetime.

Death On 12 April 2021, she died of heart failure.

Awards She received the Gratitude from the President of Ukraine in October 2000. In November 2007, Babych was appointed Order of Princess Olga, Third Class "for significant personal contribution to the socio-economic, scientific, technical and cultural development of Ukraine, significant achievements in labor, many years of hard work and on the occasion of the anniversary of confirmation of the All-Ukrainian referendum on December 1, 1991 Act of Independence of Ukraine" by president Viktor Yanukovych.

She was made "for significant personal contribution to the socio-economic, scientific and technical, cultural and educational development of the Ukrainian state, significant labor achievements, many years of hard work" by Yanukovych in November 2013. She also received the , the and the Medal of Saints Cyril and Methodius of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.