On 12 November, Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky died at the age of 78. He was a literary scholar, educator and journalist, a co-founder of the People’s Movement of Ukraine, a member of the First of December Initiative Group, and the first and honorary president of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
This is stated on the academy’s Facebook page.
“Vyacheslav Stepanovych was among those who did not merely dream of an independent Ukraine, but helped build it through civic courage and the will to win. In 1991, when Ukraine was only just gaining independence, he set about realising an idea that many considered impossible: to revive the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Thanks to his tireless work, brilliant intuition and vision for the future of Ukrainian higher education, Mohyla became one of the most successful projects and symbols of independent Ukraine,” the post says.
Bryukhovetsky was born on 14 July 1947 in Dzaudzhikau in North Ossetia.
He studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University and completed postgraduate studies at the Oleksandr Korniychuk Kyiv State Institute of Culture.
“The loss of Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky is irreparable for the Mohyla community and for all of Ukraine. But his life’s work lives on. It lives on in the university he revived, in the people he brought together and inspired, in the values he stood up for, and in the future he worked for,” the university added.