Volodymyr Okarynskyi

Volodymyr Okarynskyi (, born 14 November 1975) is a Ukrainian historian. He holds a PhD in History from 2001 and has been an Associate professor from 2004. He has been a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine from 2003.

Biography Volodymyr Okarynskyi was born on 14 November 1975, in Ternopil.

Between 2003 and 2004, he authored regular columns dedicated to the history of Ternopil and Ukraine for the Ternopilska Hazeta. He is also a member of the editorial board for the encyclopedic publication (2014) and has been a member of the International Association for the Humanities from 2018. He is a contributor to the Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia.

Research In 2001, he defended his PhD dissertation, "Ukrainskyi Skautskyi Rukh (1911–1944)".

As of 2025, according to Google Scholar, Okarynskyi works have been cited over 110 times, with an h-index of 6.

His research interests include alternative lifestyles, subcultures, and counterculture in Ukraine in the modern and contemporary periods; intellectual history; historical anthropology; local history (Ternopil); and youth movements. Ternopil / Tarnopol: istoriia mista (Ternopil / Tarnopol: History of the City) (2010, co-author), Ternopil: misto, liudy, istoriia (vid davnosti do 1991 roku) (Ternopil: City, People, History (from Antiquity to 1991)) (2017).

Awards President of Ukraine Prize (2004) and Government of Ukraine Prize (2008) for young scientists, Volodymyr Hnatiuk Prize (2018).