Olena Vitaliivna Ishchenko, Researcher of the Museum, Candidate of Historical Sciences.

In 1986 she graduated with honors from the Faculty of History of Dnipropetrovsk State University. In 1992, she defended her Ph.D. thesis on the theme "Political activity of O.Ya. Shumskyi in Ukraine". In 1992-2017 she worked as a professor assistant at the Department of the History of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk National University named after Oles Honchar.

She has been working at the Museum since August, 2017.

Scientific interests: interethnic relations in Soviet Ukraine, Stalin's anti-Semitic policies of the postwar USSR, Jewish education and upbringing.

Main publications:

1. Provedenie politiki ukrainizacii v 1920-e gody na Ukraine i sovremennost'. Nacional'nyj vopros v SSSR v sovremennyh usloviyah. Baku, 1990. || The policy of Ukrainization in the 1920s in Ukraine and modernity. The national question in the USSR in modern conditions. Baku, 1990.
2. A. Ya. SHumskij i provedenie politiki ukrainizacii v 1924–1927 gg. Sbornik nauchnyh trudov DGU. Dnepropetrovsk, 1991. || A. Ya. Shumsky and the implementation of the policy of Ukrainization in 1924–1927. Collection of scientific papers of the DSU. Dnepropetrovsk, 1991.
3. Literaturna dyskusiia 1925–1928 rr. u konteksti suspil'no-politychnoi sytuatsii v Ukraini. Istoriia ta kul'tura Podniprov'ia. Dnipropetrovs'k, 1998. || Literary discussion 1925–1928 рр. the context is suspiciously political in Ukraine. History and Culture Podniprovya. Dnipropetrovsk, 1998.
4. Provedennia polityky ukrainizatsii na Katerynoslavschyni–Dnipropetrovschyni u 1920-ti rr. Naddniprians'ka Ukraina: istorychni protsesy, podii, postati. 1998. Vyp. 1. || Conducting a policy of Ukrainization in Ekaterinoslav-Dnipropetrovsk region in the1920s. Dnieper Ukraine: historical processes, events, figures. 1998. Vol. 1.
5. Vidnosyny KP(b)U z partiieiu ukrains'kykh livykh eseriv u konteksti rozvytku ukrains'koi revoliutsii u 1919 – na pochatku 1920 r. Problemy politychnoi istorii Ukrainy. 2010. Vyp. 5. || Relations of the Communist Party (b) U with the party of Ukrainian Left SRs in the context of the development of the Ukrainian revolution in1919 - early 1920. Problems of political history of Ukraine. 2010. Vol. 5.
6. Diiachi derzhavnoi vlady ta mistsevoho samovriaduvannia Dnipropetrovs'koi oblasti. Istorychni narysy. Dnipropetrovs'k: ART-PRES, 2010. T. 2. || The figures of state authority and local government of Dnipropetrovsk region. Historical Essays. Dnipropetrovsk: ART-PRES, 2010. Vol. 2.
7. Zminy u suspil'nij svidomosti zhyteliv Dnipropetrovschyny: vid kul'tu osoby Stalina do inakodumstva i hlasnosti. Istorychna pam'iat' Dnipropetrovschyny: kolektyvna monohrafiia. Dnipropetrovs'k: «Monolit», 2012. || Changes in the public consciousness of the inhabitants of Dnipropetrovsk region: from the cult of Stalin's personality to dissent and publicity. Historical memory of Dnipropetrovsk region: a collective monograph. Dnipropetrovsk: «Monolit», 2012.
8. Usna istoriia Dnipropetrovs'koho natsional'noho universytetu imeni Olesia Honchara. Dnipro: Lira, 2016. T. 1. || Oral History of Dnipropetrovsk National University named after Oles Honchar. Dnipro: Lira, 2016. Vol. 1.