Volodymyr Okarynskyi

Volodymyr Okarynskyi (Окаринський Володимир Михайлович, born November 14, 1975, Ternopil) is a Ukrainian historian, candidate of historical (2001), docent (2004). Member of the National Union of journalists of Ukraine (2003). Awards of the president of Ukraine (2004) and the Cabinet of ministers (2008) for young scientists. Winner of the Volodymyr Hnatyuk Ternopil regional award (2018).

Biography
Graduated from the Ternopil State Pedagogical Institute (1997). He worked as a teacher at the Ternopil Institute of social and information technologies (2002–2004), since 2004 – a teacher of the Department of history of Ukraine, archeology and special branches of historical sciences of the Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University.

He held permanent columns dedicated to the history of Ternopil and the history of Ukraine in the "Ternopil newspaper" (2003–2004). Member of the editorial board of the encyclopedic publication "Ternopil region. History of cities and villages" (2014) and the International Association of humanitarians (2018).

Research interests: alternative lifestyles, subcultures, counterculture in Ukraine of modern and modern times; intellectual history; historical anthropology; local history (Ternopil); youth movements.

Author of about 100 scientific publications, 4 monographs, co-author of 5 collective monographs, as well as books: "Plastoviy Rukh na Ternopil region" (2007), "Ternopil / Tarnopol: history of the city" (2010, co-author), "Ternopil: City, People, history (from antiquity to 1991)" (2017).