Yuriy Shcherbak
Yuriy Shcherbak | |
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| Юрій Щербак | |
Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada | |
| In office 9 March 2000 – 7 April 2003 | |
| President | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Khandohiy |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Maimeskul |
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| Born | 12 October 1934 Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Party of Greens of Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Kyiv Medical Institute |
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Yuriy Mykolayovych Shcherbak (
environmental activist and political analyst. Doctor of Medicine
(1983), Laureate of Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984).
Early life and family
He was born in
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and in his student's years was accused (1948) and condemned by KGB (1948–1954) for nationalism.[1]
Epidemiological career
Yuriy Shcherbak graduated from Kyiv Medical Institute in 1958. From 1958 to 1987 he worked in the Kyiv L. Gromashevsky Research Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases as a junior and later senior researcher. His PhD (1965) and MD (1983) theses devoted to the epidemiology of especially dangerous infectious diseases. He took part in the fight against epidemics of
Order of Red Banner of Labour
(1971). Shcherbak is the author of about 100 scientific papers and more than 20 books.
Literary career
His career in literature began in the mid-1950s at the literary association of his medical school. His first stories were published in the magazine "
Warsaw University
.
In the novel "The Chronicle of Yaropol Town" (1968) he described the grotesque, fantastic story of the small town of Yaropol, chronicling and describing all manner of real and incredible events which happened there over several centuries. The story combines elements of science fiction,
fairy tales
. He has also written several fantastic stories: "Interrogation", "Synthesis", "Odyssey −2482" and many others.
Most of his works can be attributed to the conventional genre of "urban prose". He is the author of the novel "The Barrier of Incompatibility" which concerns the moral problems of
Chernobyl tragedy
. "Chornobyl" (1987–1991) was published in the US, Canada, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Japan and other countries.
Career in independent Ukraine
During the collapse of the
geo-political strategic issues, and is the author of numerous studies, articles and books on Chornobyl, ecology, public health, NATO and Ukraine's relations with Russia, the European Union and the United States. Throughout the years he has been internationally sought as a political analyst and commentator by all media outlets, conferences and seminars, and is a respected diplomat in the international arena. Yuriy Shcherbak was elected a member of the World Academy of Art and Science
(WAAS) in 2013. He is married and has daughter and son, speaks Polish and English.
Public career
- 1988 - Founder and leader of Ukrainian Green movement[2]
- 1989–1991 – Deputy of the USSR, Chairman of the sub-Committee on Nuclear Energy and Environment, member of oppositional Interregional Deputy Group headed by Academician Andrei Sakharov
- 1990–1992 – Chairman of the Green Party of Ukraine (formerly Ukrainian Green movement)
- 1991–1992 – First environment Minister of independent Ukraine, Member of the National Security Council of Ukraine
- 1992–1994 – Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel
- 1994–1998 – Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA (since 1997 also to Mexico)
- 1998–2000 – Advisor to the President of Ukraine
- 2000–2003 – Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada (also Representative of Ukraine at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, Montreal).
- Since 12/2009 – Co-founder and Member of the Council on Foreign and Security Policy
- 2004–2006 – Advisor to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
- Since 2006 – President of the V. Vernadsky Institute for Sustainable Development.
Awards and honours
- Order of Red Banner of Labour (1971)
- Order for Cultural Merit of Poland (1977)
- Laureate of Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984)
- Laureate of O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984)
- Order "For merits", III grade (1996)
- Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle (1998)
- Diploma of the Supreme Council of Ukraine (2004)
- Order "For merits", II grade (2009)
- Order of Christ the Saviour, Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate (2011).
- Antonovych prize (2018)
Books and publications
- "Like at the war", stories and novels (1966)
- "The Chronicle of Yaropol town" (1968)
- "Barrier of incompatibility", novel (1971)
- "Little football team", stories and novels (1973)
- "Signs", short stories and novels (1984)
- "Causes and Consequences", novel (1986)
- "Chernobyl", documentary novel (1987)
- "To hope", collection of plays (1989)
- "Doctors", novel and stories (1990)
- "Strategic Role of Ukraine", political and journalistic essays (1998)
- "Ukraine: Challenge and choice" (2003)
- "Ukraine in the area of turbulence" (2010)
- "Time of Christothanatists: Mirages 2077", political action-thriller (2011)
- "The big game: Phantoms 2079", continuation of "Time of smertohrystiv" (2012).
Cinematic works (movie scripts and films)
- "We are students from different continents" (1965)
- "They defended spring" (1965)
- "Morning Island" (1966)
- "Sons of Bashtanka Republic" (1967)
- "Years and seconds" (1967)
- "Quarantine" (1968)
- "Khortytsia" (1969)
- "The way to the heart" (1970)
- "V.M. Glushkov, cybernetist" (1980, co-author)
- "Island singing sands" (1981, TV film)
- "Discovery" (1982, TV film)
- "Public attitudes" (1983)
- "Approaching the Future" (1986, co-author)
A TV film "Once in December" (1988) was based on Shcherbak's story "Harmonic inspiration".
References
- ^ Cullen, Robert (January 27, 1992). "Report from Ukraine". The New Yorker
- ^ ""UKRAINE REPORT-2004"". Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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