User:PaniaNelia/Symon Narizhnyi

Symon Petrovych Narizhnyi (January 30, 1898 — July 23, 1983) is Ukrainian scientist, researcher of Ukrainian emigration, bibliographer, historian.

Biography
He was born on January 30, 1898 in the village of Sokilka, Kobeliatsky district, Poltava province. He graduated from the Kobeliaky school (1917), the historical and philological faculty of the Poltava Institute (1918-1921). He emigrated to Czechoslovakia (1922), graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ukrainian Free University (1927). He taught during 1928-1932 at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute named after M. Drahomanov, then at the Ukrainian Free University. He served as the secretary of the Ukrainian Historical and Philological Society (1929–1938), and was the director of the Museum of the Liberation Struggle of Ukraine in Prague (1945–1948). He emigrated to West Germany, then to Australia (1951), settled in Sydney. Died 23 July 1983, buried at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.

The main creative work
He is the author of the fundamental book "Ukrainian emigration. Cultural work of the Ukrainian emigration between the two world wars" (Prague, 1942), "Materials for the history of the Museum of the Liberation Struggle of Ukraine in Prague" (Zurich-Winnipeg, 1957-1959), numerous works on the history of Cossacks.