1 vern at the unveiling of a memorial plaque to Ihor Yuhnovsky, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi announced that 2025 would be dedicated to this outstanding scientist.
“Today, on the day when the famous scientist and statesman would have turned 99, we have gathered again in his honour. This time, to unveil a memorial plaque at Igor Rafailovich’s home institute, where he worked for more than 30 years.
Download photoWe have decided to declare 2025 the year of Igor Rafailovich Yukhnovsky. Therefore, together with the organising committee, we are pleased to announce that next year we plan to hold 3 forums in Lviv on the topics to which Ihor Yuhnovsky devoted his life: physics, economics, and politics.
It is important for us to provide quality content to these fundamental works that Ihor Yuhnovsky worked on. After all, we are obliged to implement his ideas. Every idea that came from God through Ihor Rafailovych must be implemented,” said Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi during the unveiling of the memorial plaque to Ihor Yukhnovskyi.
In 2025, Ihor Yukhnovsky would have turned 100 years old, but unfortunately, he died in the spring of this year. However, given the fact that Ihor Rafailovych was an honorary citizen of Lviv, a prominent political and public figure and scientist, the city decided to mark his 100th birthday with a series of important and significant events. The first meeting of the organising committee for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ihor Yuhnovsky’s birth has already taken place, where they discussed future plans and the programme of events. Anton Drobovych, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, is also a member of the organising committee.
“I am very grateful that the city of Lviv has taken the lead in honouring Ihor Yuhnovsky with dignity. He was a deeply moderate, humane and professional personality, so I have been studying his approaches to managing the Institute of National Remembrance. I would like all of our initiatives and activities to be based on the principles that distinguished Ihor Rafailovych among others. They should be constructive, meaningful, and not just for show, so that they touch people and make them want to learn more about the outstanding Ukrainian. Our task is to create a space of living memory,” said Anton Drobovych, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
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Igor Rafailovych Yukhnovsky (01.09.1925 – 26.03.2024) was a prominent Ukrainian theoretical physicist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, organiser and first director of the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, politician, state builder, Hero of Ukraine.
Ihor Yukhnovsky founded the Lviv Scientific School of Static Physics. He developed original and powerful methods for theoretical studies of systems of interacting particles: the method of displacements and collective variables, which allowed him to solve a series of fundamental problems in condensed matter physics.
In 1990, Igor Yukhnovsky was elected a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. In parliament, he led the opposition as Chairman of the People’s Council.
In 1991, he was a candidate for President of Ukraine.
From December 1999 to March 2002, he was Chairman of the Committee on Science and Education of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
In June 2006, by a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Ihor Yukhnovskyi was appointed acting head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, a central executive body with a special status.
Ihor Rafailovych is also one of the founders and a member (since 2011) of the First of December initiative group.
In 2016, on the occasion of the 760th anniversary of Lviv, Ihor Yukhnovskyi was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Lviv.