Valeriy Soldatenko
Valery Fedorovych Soldatenko | |
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Soldatenko in 2019 | |
| Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance | |
| In office 19 July 2010 – 24 March 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Ihor Yukhnovskyi |
| Succeeded by | Volodymyr Viatrovych |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 13, 1946 Selydove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
| Occupation | Historian |
Valeriy Soldatenko (Ukrainian: Вале́рій Солдате́нко; born 4 April 1946) is a Ukrainian historian and professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 2006. Soldatenko was a member of Communist Party of Ukraine, which he joined in 1969. In 2014, Soldatenko was appointed by then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych as the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, a decision which proved controversial due to Soldatenko's support for the Soviet Union and denial of the Holodomor as a genocide. After the Ukrainian Revolution, Soldatenko was forced to resign from his post, and since then, he has been a chief researcher at the I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.