Research Center of Military History

Colonel Talaur Serhii Yevhenovych
Head of the Research Center of Military History, PhD of Military Sciences, Senior Researcher,Colonel
Talaur Serhii Yevhenovych

Research Center of Military History established in accordance with the Directive of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dated August 30, 2014 No. D-322/1/30, as a specialized structural unit of the University for Professional Military-Historical Research in the field of Military History.

To fulfill the directive of the Minister of Defence of Ukraine and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dated August 14, 2023 No. D-321/80/restricted, from September 2023 the Center is included in the newly established Educational and Scientific Institute of Military History at the University.

According to its purpose, the Center conducts research on Military History, development of forms and methods of armed struggle, generalizes the experience of preparing and conducting wars. Special attention is focused on the study of the combat experience of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in defending state independence from russian aggression, its implementation in the educational process of training of military specialists, as well as the practical activities of military administration bodies, commanders and chiefs of all levels.

The main tasks of the Center are:

  • Conducting scientific studies of the security environment at the global, regional and national levels in Military History: the History of Wars, Military Art, Military Construction, the development of weapons and military equipment, in the scientific directions of history: Military-Political Science, Military Law and International Peacekeeping Activities;
  • Scientific support of the educational process at the University in the military-historical direction;
  • Training of highly qualified scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel - Doctors of Philosophy, Doctors of Sciences for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations;
  • Ensuring the work of the Doctor's Specialized Academic Council on the specialty 20.02.22 - Military History;
  • Ensuring the publication of the University collection of scientific works "Military Historical Bulletin" (a specialized publication on Historical Sciences);
  • Participation in the creation (improvement) of the regulatory and legal framework to ensure educational activities at the University;
  • Participation in the development and implementation of expertise of projects of legislative and other regulatory legal acts in the direction of the center's activities;
  • Ensuring cultural and spiritual development of the individual, education of personnel in the spirit of patriotism and respect for the Constitution of Ukraine.

The Center includes the Research Department of Problems of the History of Wars and Military Art and the Research Laboratory of Problems of the Military History of Ukraine.

The Center employs 4 Doctors and 9 Philosophy Doctors.

Over the years of the Center's existence, 11 research works have been completed, more than 10 monographs published, popular scientific publications and other scientific products in the field of Military History have been published. The development of a multi-volume publication about the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine continues.

Adjuncts, Doctoral Students, applicants and research workers of the Center defended 9 dissertations for obtaining the scientific degree of Philosophy Doctors of Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy), 1 dissertation - Doctor of Sciences.

Scientific workers of the center participate in the work of Specialized Scientific Councils for the defense of dissertations in the field of Historical Sciences.

The results of scientific research by the Сenter's employees are regularly published in publications included in the international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection.

Every year Center organizes and conducts the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Ukrainian Army: Modernity and Historical Retrospective".

As part of the project "Sociocentric struggle in Ukraine: military patriotism, russian influence and consequences for European security", the Center actively cooperates with the College of Defense of Norwegian University.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS OF THE CENTER

The collection of scientific works “Military Historical Bulletin”
The collection of scientific works "Military Historical Bulletin"
is included in the List of scientific specialized publications of Ukraine under category "B" in the field of Historical Sciences, specialty 032.

The main thematic directions of the magazine: development of the methodology of Military-Historical Science; studying the history of wars, individual military campaigns and operations; research on the experience of construction, combat, organizational and mobilization training, military management, comprehensive provision of military (combat) operations and combat use of the Armed Forces, their services and branches of troops; studying the principles, forms and methods of armed struggle and others.

“The White Book of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Eastern Ukraine”
"The White Book of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Eastern Ukraine"
As part of the NATO DEEP program, the center prepared and presented the publication (in Ukrainian and English) at the NATO headquarters.
“Experience and lessons of military actions to unblock the Donetsk airport (May 26-31, 2014)”
“Experience and lessons of military actions to unblock the Donetsk airport (May 26-31, 2014)”
Together with the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as part of the work on the project to study and generalize the combat experience during the first stage (April - June 2014) of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a training manual (in Ukrainian and English).
“The Year of Invincibility: The Collapse of Operation Z”
“The Year of Invincibility: The Collapse of Operation Z”
In the monograph “The Year of Invincibility: The Collapse of Operation Z” a military-historical analysis of the latest period of armed aggression of the russian federation was carried out, the main flaws of the russian army were highlighted, and through the prism of heroism and sacrifice of the defenders of Ukraine, the main events of the russian-Ukrainian war were outlined, as well as a proposed historical periodization of armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine.
“Ukrainian Army: Modernity and Historical Retrospective”
“Ukrainian Army: Modernity and Historical Retrospective”
The Collections of Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Ukrainian Army: Modernity and Historical Retrospective” contain materials on military construction on the territory of Ukraine from ancient times to the present, the struggle of Ukrainians for statehood in different historical periods, the role and place of Ukraine in the whirlwind of events of the Second World War, a number of aspects of repelling the large-scale armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine and the experience of training specialists for the military formations of Ukraine are analyzed.