IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR YEVHEN KHRYKOV, MURDERED BY RASCISTS

Abstract

Yevhen Mykolaiovych Khrykov was born in 1949. The scientific and pedagogical community knows him as a graduate of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko Pedagogical Institute (later University), where he graduated from the History Department in 1975. The History Department community respected Yevhen Khrykov – he not only studied successfully, but also had organisational skills and took an active part in student self-government and the social life of the Institute. He (then a third-year student) was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples for his significant achievements in academic and social activities, which was a memorable event for the students and faculty of the university.
After graduating from the Institute, Yevhen Khrykov taught, and later became the deputy director of secondary school No. 9 in Luhansk. Since 1979, he has worked at Luhansk Pedagogical Institute as an assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor, professor, Dean of the Faculty of Retraining and Advanced Training of Organisers of Public Education, Director of the Institute of Postgraduate Education and Distance Learning, Head of the Department of Civil Service and Management. His research interests and professional practice focused on the management of educational institutions. In 1986, he defended his PhD thesis “Training school principals to manage extracurricular and out-of-school activities on labour education of students”, and eleven years later he defended his Dr. Sc. thesis “Theory and methods of school-based management in modern conditions” at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 1999, he was awarded the academic title of professor (Vcheni LNU, n.d.).