Volodymyr Viatrovych
Volodymyr Viatrovych | |
|---|---|
Володимир В'ятрович | |
Volodymyr Viatrovych (2022) | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 3 December 2019 | |
| Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance | |
| In office 25 March 2014 – 18 September 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Valeriy Soldatenko |
| Succeeded by | Anton Drobovych |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 July 1977 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | European Solidarity |
| Alma mater | Ivan Franko National University of Lviv |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | |
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Viatrovych (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Михайлович В'ятро́вич; born 7 July 1977) is a Ukrainian historian, civic activist and politician.
Viatrovych was the Director of the Center for Research of Liberation Movement in 2002–2010. Viatrovych is a member of the board of trustees of the National Museum-Memorial of Victims of the Occupation Regimes "Loncky street Prison"" Museum. From 2008 to 2010, he was director of the Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine. In 2010-2011 he was senior visiting scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, working in particular with the archival documents of Mykola Lebed. He was Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance since 25 March 2014 until September 2019.
As a historian, Viatrovych was criticized for whitewashing crimes by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II. He was dismissed from his post in September 2019, with Anton Drobovych succeeding him. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Viatrovych was number 25 on the election list of European Solidarity. Since 3 December 2019, he is a member of the Ukrainian parliament.