Oleksandr Kryvobok

Oleksandr Kryvobok is a historian and associate professor at Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University. He studied history at Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State Pedagogical University. In 2009, he defended his PhD thesis at Drahomanov National Pedagogical University (Kyiv). In 2011, based on his dissertation research, Oleksandr published the monograph “Activities of political parties and organizations in the north of the Left Bank of Ukraine at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries” (in Ukrainian).

Since 2009, he has been working at Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University. His main research areas are the history of settlements, the religious, social and cultural life of northern Left-Bank Ukraine, the history of students, intellectuals, and higher education in Ukraine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the history of Ukraine’s political thought and the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the medieval period.

Supported with grants from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, he prepared the archaeography publications “Diary of Professor Mykhailo Berezhkov. The Institute Period (1882-1904)” (2020, in Ukrainian); “Diary of Professor Mykhailo Berezhkov. Part 2. The first shocks and lull (1905-1913)” (2022, in Ukrainian).

Since 2022, he has been working in the field of oral history and documenting the modern Russian-Ukrainian war. Oleksandr led the work on the project “Rural Communities of Chernihiv Region in the Conditions of War and Occupation. The Experience of Survival and Struggle” in 2023-2025 with the support of the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) as part of the “Documenting Ukraine” program. In January-March 2025, he was at a research residence at the Lviv Centre for Urban History and worked on the theme “Urban Space in Eastern Europe during the First World War from the perspective of Diaries”.