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Semen Yosypovych Appatov

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Semyon Iosifovich Appatov
Born
Semyon Iosifovich Appatov

(1930-01-24)January 24, 1930
Pervomaysk, Ukraine
DiedMarch 26, 2003(2003-03-26) (aged 73) (death date then birth date)
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Alma materAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, Odessa State University
Scientific career
Thesis history, political science
Doctoral advisorDoctor of Historical Sciences

Semen Yosypovich Appatov (January 24, 1930 – March 26, 2003) was 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).[1][2]

Biography

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He was born on January 24, 1930, in the city of Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, 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 Odesa.

He worked as a lecturer at the "Knowledge" society (1952–1954). He studied at the Odesa 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 Odesa special boarding school No. 2 and was a teacher and director of the Odesa 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).

Research activities

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His main research interests are the study of foreign policy of the United States and its concepts, political science and world-systems theory. For the first time in Ukraine, back in Soviet times, S. Appatov transferred the study of the historiography of US politics from the plane of propaganda criticism to the plane of scientific analysis, and also devoted himself to the study of the process of formation of Ukraine's national interests on the international arena, the relations of the young state with the leading countries of the world.

In 1986, as part of the Fulbright program of international scientific exchanges, he gave a course of lectures at William Howard Taft University in the United States. In addition to lecturing at Tufts, he also participated in scientific conferences at Harvard University, as well as at universities in New York City and Washington. In the same year, 1986, S. Y. Appatov became a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Коваль, І. М. "Аппатов Семен Йосипович". Енциклопедія Сучасної України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  2. ^ "National Union of Journalists of Ukraine – European Media Union | Європейська медійна спілка" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-07-18.
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