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Rekovets, L. I. Vadym Oleksandrovych Topachevsky – an outstanding figure in the history of mammalogy of Ukraine Geo&Bio, 19: 157-164. (In Ukrainian)

doi: http://doi.org/10.15407/gb1915

authors (with orcid and affiliation):

Leonid I. Rekovets, orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9934-7095

Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Wroclaw, Poland)

National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

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The analytical research is devoted to the life, mainly to the creative path of the famous scientist of the 20th century, zoologist and paleotheriologist Vadym Topachevsky, an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine — these are only formal titles without an in-depth analysis of his essence as a scientist, leader or a person. His life motto — to leave the maximum contribution in science, constantly filled the atmosphere of realisation of his aspirations and aspirations, expressed in scientific publications, speeches at conferences, scientific and organizational affairs. The fundamental, truly academic directions of his scientific research, which he always defended at different levels of the organisation of academic science in Ukraine, have always been a priority of his scientific activity, and he always induced and encouraged the scientific impulses of his students. The factual basis of his scientific work has always been the original materials and data, which he himself and as part of expeditions received in real field research. Those materials formed the core of his scientific statements and beliefs and became an invaluable asset of the NMNH funds. The basics of morpho-functional analysis of fossil remains, which he elaborated in depth, are not simply the assertion of V. O. Kovalevsky's principles; the substantiated and confirmed hypothesis about the phylogeny of the cricetide-arvicolid branch among small mammals is generally accepted among leading paleotheriologists. He asserted the approach of historical and faunal analysis of groups of different levels of organisation in characterising the dynamics of natural processes of the late Cenozoic natural and historical regions of Europe. Morphology, systematics and phylogeny, paleoecology and paleogeography, stratigraphy and historical faunistics are the areas of Vadym Oleksandrovych's scientific achievements that have been recognised today and are being developed by his followers (L. Rekovets, V. Nesin, M. Sinitsa, O. Kovalchuk). Scientific ideas of V. O. Topachevsky and O. Korotkevych with the active participation of the museum staff formed the basis of the exposition of the paleontological museum of the NMNH, built on a systematic and stratigraphic basis.

Key words:

Topachevsky, paleoteriology, historical faunistics, systematics.

Correspondence to:

Leonid I. Rekovets; National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine; Bohdan Khmelnytsky St. 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine; e-mail: leonid.rekovets@upwr.edu.pl; orcid: 0000-0001-9934-7095

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