November 29, 2013, died Volodymyr Mykolajovych Tykhomyrov - professor of Russian Philology, Doctor of Philology, a member of the editorial board of "Vistnyk of ZNU. Philological sciences".
39 years of his life he devoted to Zaporizhzhya National University, created a scientific school "Literary process: problems of typology and continuity" and brought up several generations of teachers and teachers working in schools and higher educational institutions in Ukraine and abroad. Among them - the candidate of philological sciences, associate professors O. D. Voynov, O. V. Muravin, O. U. Poda, I. G. Abramova, O. O. Nikolova, O. V. Temna, N. P. Gura, I. U. Tonkih, Doctors of Philological Sciences V. L. Pogrebna, I. Y. Pavlenko, M. S. Vaskiv, N. B. Mantulo.
Born renowned scientist on March 5, 1936 in the village Svoboda of Kursk region. Graduated from the Odessa Pedagogical Institute of K.D. Ushynsky (1954-1959). After graduation he defended his thesis on "Romantic traditions in the novels of Turgenev "Smoke" and I.A. Goncharov "Precipice" at Lviv State University. He worked as a senior lecturer in Kirovohrad Pedagogical Institute from 1972 to 1974 and later - associate professor of the Department of Russian Literature in Zaporizhzhya Pedagogical Institute. In 1985 he defended his doctoral thesis on "Educational trends in Russian critical realism (I.S.Turgenev, I.A. Goncharov, A.N. Ostrovsky)". From 1985 to 1992 he was a member of the Institute of the specialized literature. of Taras Shevchenko Ukraine National Academy of Sciences for doctoral dissertations and 1993 to 2004 - a member of a specialized council of Dnipropetrovsk National University of defense of Ph.D. theses. From 1986 to 2008 headed the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature of Zaporizhzhya State (from 2004 - National) University, and since 2008 until the end of life path - Professor of Russian Philology of ZNU. The scope of his research interests - history and literature of the nineteenth century the problem of comparative studies, as reflected in numerous scientific works, among them - the book ""Turgenev and enlightenment", "Goncharov. Literary portrait", textbook "Russian-foreign literary communication", etc.. In the last months of his life, Volodymyr Mykolajovych prepared and submitted for publication a collection of scientific papers "Dialog of great writers. Contact-typological connection (Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Bunin). Teach the course of "History of World Literature", "History of Russian Literature" courses "Problems of Comparative Literature", "Russian-foreign literary connections". V.M. Tykhomyrov was a member of the editorial board of "Vistnyk of ZNU. Philological sciences", "New Philology" (Zaporizhzhya), "Current issues of Slavic Philology", "Topical Issues of Foreign Languages" (Berdyansk), "Foreign literature in schools of Ukraine", "World Literature and Culture" (Kyiv).
Many efforts Volodymyr Mykolajovych put to create friendly and creative atmosphere in the department headed by him, as in the hearts of colleagues, he will not only academically, but also as someone who taught wisdom and carried high humanistic values.
Blessed memory to Teacher!
