Oleksandr Alfyorov

Oleksandr Alfiorov or Alfyorov and Alf’orov (; born 30 November 1983) is a Ukrainian historian, radio host, public and political figure, Candidate of Historical Sciences, researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Biography Family He comes from the Ukrainian noble family of the Alfiorovs. He was born in Kyiv, in a family of scientists: his father, Anatolii Alfiorov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, worked for a long time with Mykola Amosov; his mother, Yevheniia Alfiorova, is a teacher. He and his wife Tetiana are raising five children.

Education In 2001, he graduated from secondary school No. 137 (Kyiv). During his studies at the school, he took an active part in the competition of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: he won the all-Ukrainian stage of the Junior Academy of Sciences (2001) in history. In 2006, he graduated with rector's honors from the Institute of Historical Education of the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University with a degree in history and law. In 2012, he defended his PhD thesis in History of Ukraine on the topic "The Role of the Cossack and Yeomanry Family in the History of Ukraine in the XVI–XVIII Centuries". From 2012 until the beginning of the war, he was a part-time student at the (2 courses). ). From 2010, he has been a junior researcher (from 2012, a researcher) at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In 2014–2018, he was the press secretary of the far-right politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine Andrii Biletskyi, and from winter 2014 to June 2015, he was the head of the press service of the Azov Regiment.

In his interview to RBC-Ukraine on 2 February 2024, Alfiorov objected to comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler because Hitler "received German education, was an artist, and was brought up on the philosophy and the culture of Germany". He also said that it is impossible to compare the peoples of Nazi Germany and today's Russia because Nazi Germans were "brought up in the spirit of law, obedience, with powerful Christian ethics".

On 27 June 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed Oleksandr Alfiorov as the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. In 2010–2017, he co-organized 7 international sfragist conferences. 2017 – Curator and author of the exhibition "Sviatoslav I: The Spirit of the Age" (Golden Gate Museum of the National Reserve "Sophia of Kyiv"). 2018 - Founder of the "Historical Radio". In 2020, he discovered the previously unknown Metropolitan , who ranks between Metropolitans Kirill III (1247–1281) and Maximos (1285–1305). Judging by the inscription on the seal, which was first presented at an international conference on the history of Kievan Rus' in Warsaw on 2 February 2020, Nikephoros III was metropolitan for just over a year. Or perhaps he died on the road, because his seal (from the collection of O. Sheremetiev) was found in Chersonesus (Sevastopol). 2020 – took part in the transfer of the to the state. Author of the coat of arms of Cherniakhiv Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast.

Public and political activities In 2001–2007, he was the head of the youth branch of the Union of Hetman Statesmen.

From 2016 – member of the Supreme Council of the National Corps political party, party spokesperson. From 2018, he is the head of the all-Ukrainian campaign "Memory of the Nation".

Author of the popular science YouTube channel Oleksandr Alfiorov.

Alfiorov serves as head of the expert group on Derussification in Kyiv. Among his proposals on this post is the replacement of Mykola Shchors monument with a statue of Symon Petliura and the installment of a monument to Pavlo Skoropadskyi on the site of the former Lenin monument in Bessarabska Square.

Awards Order of Merit, 3rd class (6 June 2025) Presidential Award "For Participation in the Anti-Terrorist Operation" (2015) Medal for Sacrifice and Love for Ukraine of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate. Numerous commendations from the Ukrainian Museum in Chicago, the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications, the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, etc.