In memoriam Yevgen Pysanets (1949–2016)
Irretrievable loss incurred the biological science, museology and education in Ukraine. On 15 October 2016, at age 67, suddenly died the famous zoologist, teacher, museum activist, founder and first president of the Ukrainian Herpetological Society, head of the Zoological Department at the National...
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96 Зб. пр. Зоол. муз., 48, 2017
A. YU. Maliuk
ПЕРСОНАЛІЇ
A. YU. Maliuk, 2017
A. YU. Maliuk
National Museum of Natural History,
National Academy of Science of Ukraine,
Bohdan Khmelnytsky St., 15, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine
E-mail: a.maljuk@gmail.com
Збірник праць Зоологічного музею, 48: 96-98, 2017
IN MEMORIAM
YEVGEN PYSANETS
(1949–2016)
Irretrievable loss incurred the biolog-
ical science, museology and educa-
tion in Ukraine. On 15 October 2016,
at age 67, suddenly died the famous
zoologist, teacher, museum activist,
founder and first president of the
Ukrainian Herpetological Society,
head of the Zoological Department at
the National Museum of Natural
History, NAS of Ukraine, doctor of
biological sciences, professor
Yevgen Maksymovych Pysanets. Since 1999, he had been leading of the
Zoological Department for seventeen years.
Yevgen Maksymovych was born on 22 August 1949 in Viacheslav-
ka village (Primorsky district, Zaporizhzhia region) to the agronomist
Maksym Maksymovych and his wife Lidiia Romanivna. After his
school years (1958–1966), he was studying in a machine-building
technical school where he was graduated from in 1968. In 1968–1973,
he was a student at the Department of Geography and Biology of Meli-
topol State Pedagogical Institute (now Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol
State Pedagogical University). He successfully graduated in 1973 and
became an assistant at the Department of Zoology. In 1976, he started
his postgraduate studies at I. I. Shmalhausen Institute of Zoology,
NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv), in the Department of Vertebrates Systematics,
and at the Zoological Museum chaired by Mykola Shcherbak, who
became his scientific advisor.
Yevgen Pysanets devoted his PhD thesis to the taxonomy and geo-
graphical variability of toads of the USSR. During the postgraduate
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studies, Yevgen Maksymovych took part in numerous expeditions across Ukraine, the
Far East, and countries of Central Asia. Successfully completing the postgraduate stud-
ies and defending his PhD thesis, Yevgen Maksymovych returned to Melitopol Peda-
gogical Institute, where he became a lecturer in zoology, evolution theory, and genetics.
He proceeded his research on karyology and hybridization of amphibians, their variabil-
ity and taxonomy. In 1979–1980 he worked as an assistant of the Department of Zoolo-
gy. In 1980, he was appointed as an associate professor of the same department. Since
1981, he had been a Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Geographical Sciences of Meli-
topol State Pedagogical Institute and simultaneously associate professor of the Depart-
ment of Biology and Nature Conservation.
In 1989–1992, Yevgen Pysanets was a postdoctoral researcher at I. I. Shmalhausen
Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, where he continued his research in the field of
variability and taxonomy of Eurasian toads. During these years, he prepared and suc-
cessfully defended his DSc thesis “Toads of the Palearctic (variability, taxonomy, and
significance of polyploidy in the evolution of the genus Bufo)”. After earning the Doctor
of Biological Sciences degree, in 1995 he was appointed head of the general Herpeto-
logical Laboratory at Melitopol Pedagogical Institute.
In 1997, Yevgen Maksymovych established the Research Institute of Terrestrial and
Aquatic Ecosystems of Ukraine at Melitopol Pedagogical University, becoming its
director, and head of the institute’s Department of Herpetology and the Zoological
Museum. At the same time, he was teaching genetics in Melitopol State Pedagogical
University.
After M. Shcherbak’s death, Yevgen Pysanets in 1999 was appointed as a head of
the Zoological Department at the National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine.
He moved to Kyiv and started to work actively on the development of the museum,
enrichment of its exhibitions, preservation stock collections, creation collection data-
bases, and publishing catalogues of collections. Two editions of guidebooks on the
Zoological Museum were published under his editorship (2005, 2009). In 2005, he
resumed publishing the “Proceedings of the Zoological Museum” scientific journal,
becoming its editor-in-chief. In the same year, Yevgen Maksymovych established the
Ukrainian Herpetological Society, became its first president, and the editor-in-chief of
the society’s journal “Proceedings of the Ukrainian Herpetological Society”. At this
time, zoological field studies conducted by young researchers and postgraduate students
of the Zoological Museum under Yevgen Maksymovich’s guidance covered the territory
of Ukraine and another countries of Eastern Europe (Romania, Poland, Slovakia, and
Hungary).
Yevgen Maksymovych also traveled a lot, in particular to the Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador and Peru (2006), following Charles Darwin’s rout on the Beagle. He also
visited Nepal, India, and China (Tibet, Lhasa) (2007). As the result he created the
permanent photo exhibition “The Galapagos Islands since Darwin to present days” in
the lobby of the Zoological Department at the National Museum of Natural History,
NAS of Ukraine, also new exhibits of reptiles that enriched the museum’s exposition
and stocks.
Yevgen Pysanets published more than 100 scientific, methodological, and popular
science publications, including monographs “Amphibians of the Red Data Book of
Ukraine (reference book-cadastre)” (2005) in co-authorship with S. Litvinchuk,
F. Kurtiak and V. Radchenko, “Amphibians of Ukraine (guide and key to amphibians of
Ukraine and adjacent territories)” (2007), “Amphibians of Ukraine (2007), Amphibians
of Eastern Europe. Part I. Caudata” (2012), “Amphibians of Eastern Europe. Part II.
Anura” (2014) and “Amphibians of Crimea” (2016). He also took an active part in
writing the Red Data Book of Ukraine, where he is the author of several articles and
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eight special essays for its last edition (2009).
Since 2006, Yevgen Pysanets had been teaching vertebrate zoology and genetics at
the Department of Biology of the National University of Kyiv–Mohyla Academy. He
was appointed as an Professor of the Department in 2008. Five PhD candidates
(N. Suriadna, Yu. Karmyshev, V. Reminnyi, N. Smirnov, A. Roman) defended their
theses under his leadership, while some of his PhD-students (O. Manuilova,
A. Matvyeyev, O. Tkachenko, G. Mykytynets) continue their scientific research on the
topics he proposed.
Yevgen Pysanets had always been a man with a property that is rare nowadays, i.e. a
clear prioritization of his life. The family was always an unconditional priority for him,
just as his scientific work. He was not just a loving son, brother, husband, father, and
grandfather, but very responsible to family members, a real head, and faithful and relia-
ble in everything. He met his future wife Liudmyla Volodymyrivna during school years
and they lived together for fifty years raising two daughters and a son. They have three
grandchildren, and recently a great-granddaughter was born.
Yevgen Maksymovych had been working until his last days. Shortly before his
death, after completing the work on another monograph, he carefully arranged his
affairs, compiled a list of his publications, and had a conversation with the staff about
the museum’s future and issues of preservation of the collections and exhibitions. As a
scientist, he left behind his scientific achievements, articles, books, as a teacher he left
worthy students, and as a museologist he left valuable collections, expositions filled
with new contributions, as well as new development ideas. As a remarkable, wise,
dignified and loving person, he left behind a long good memory. We all, the employees
of the Zoological Museum, NMNH NAS of Ukraine, share the grief of the members of
Yevgen Maksymovich’s family about the loss of this bright man and will always re-
member him, who has become an integral part of the history of the museum, with appre-
ciation and kindness.
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