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).

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• Енциклопедія Сучасної України Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine 
• Одеський національний університет імені І. І. Мечникова Archived 2018-10-21 at the Wayback Machine