Олександр Савчук

Oleksandr Savchuk

05/03/1984

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Oleksandr Savchuk is an editor, project leader, and publisher of over 35 books in the field of Ukrainian studies. He has been a regular participant in the Lviv Publishers’ Forum since 2011 and the Kyiv Book Arsenal since 2014. He is also the co-founder of the “Kharkiv Residence ‘Slovo'” (2020).

Biography

 Savchuk was born in Kharkiv in 1984. He graduated from the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” in 2006 and defended his dissertation for a PhD in Philosophy in 2010, specializing in Ukrainian Studies at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. From 2009 to 2021, he worked as an associate professor at the Department of Cultural Theory and Philosophy of Science, and since 2015, he has been a researcher at the Center for Ukrainian Studies at the same university.
Savchuk is a laureate of the Petro Ivanov City Ethnography Prize (2009) and has organized and served as deputy director of the Hnat Khotkevych International Folk Instrument Performers Competition. He is a member of the Kharkiv Kobzar Guild.

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Discover the authentic world of Ukrainian music and culture together with the masters of the Kyiv Kobzar Workshop. Kobzari – bearers of centuries-old traditions, will perform dumas, historical songs, spiritual songs, psalms and instrumental works for you, which will transport you to the times of Cossack glory and national identity.

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invite the kobzar

Discover the authentic world of Ukrainian music and culture together with the masters of the Kyiv Kobzar Workshop. Kobzari – bearers of centuries-old traditions, will perform dumas, historical songs, spiritual songs, psalms and instrumental works for you, which will transport you to the times of Cossack glory and national identity.