Semen Yosypovych Appatov

Semen Yosypovich Appatov (January 24, 1930, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region - March 26, 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) is an international historian, political scientist. Doctor of historical sciences (1981), professor (1982), honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine (1993), member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (1964).

Biography
He was born on January 24, 1930, in the city of Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast, Mykolaiv region, in the family of a doctor. During the war, his father fought, and S. Y. Appatov and his mother were evacuated in the city of Irbit, Sverdlovsk Oblast. After the liberation of Odesa from the invaders, he returned to the city.

He graduated from Odesa Secondary School No. 121 with a gold medal in 1947 and entered Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv at the Faculty of International Relations. In 1952, he graduated from the university, having received a diploma with honors and the specialty of historian-internationalist, referent-translator. After that he returned to Odessa.

He worked as a lecturer at the "Knowledge" society (1952–1954). He studied at the Odessa Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1956–1960). At the same time, he worked in the Odesa Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Education Workers (1954–1958). He taught history and economic geography in English at the Odessa special boarding school No. 2 and was a teacher and director of the Odessa three-year foreign language courses (1958–1966), taught the history of international relations and foreign policy of the USSR at the Evening University of Marxism–Leninism (1961–1966).

Research activities
His main research interests are the study of Foreign policy of the United States and its concepts, Political science and World-systems theory. For the first time in Ukraine, back in Soviet times, S. Appatov transferred the study of the historiography of US politics from the plane of propaganda criticism to the plane of scientific analysis, and also devoted himself to the study of the process of formation of Ukraine's national interests on the international arena, the relations of the young state with the leading countries of the world.

In 1986, as part of the Fulbright program of international scientific exchanges, he gave a course of lectures at William Howard Taft University in the USA. In addition to lecturing at Tufts, he also participated in scientific conferences at Harvard University, as well as at Universities in New York and Washington. In the same year, 1986, S. Y. Appatov became a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science.