In memory of Yurii Pryvalov

Dear colleagues!

It is with deep sorrow that we report the death at the age of 71 of the Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Social Expertise of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine

Yurii Oleksiiovych Pryvalov

The farewell will take place on Sunday 16 March 2025 at 12:00 at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.

Yu. O. Pryvalov was born on 22 September 1953. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1982) and from its postgraduate school (1988). He defended his candidate's dissertation “Spatial determinations as preconditions of human consciousness” in the field of Philosophical Sciences, 09.00.01 — Ontology, epistemology, phenomenology.

From 1990 until now Yu. O. Pryvalov worked at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, holding the post of Senior Research Fellow and heading teams of specialists in sociology at the charitable foundation “Intellectual Perspective” and at the “Yu. Saienko Centre for Social Expertise” of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine. For many years Yurii Oleksiiovych invested his knowledge and his soul in sociological science, grew constantly as a specialist and directed large-scale sociological studies whose results brought much that was useful to the life of Ukrainian society.

Since 1996 Yurii Oleksiiovych effectively directed more than 100 research and public-education sociological projects at national and regional level. Within these projects he worked closely with various state structures and with international and Ukrainian non-governmental and charitable organisations, changing the world for the better together. The projects were commissioned by government structures of Ukraine and by international organisations, among them the UN, USAID, the World Bank, UNICEF, IPEC, the International Renaissance Foundation, the European Commission, DESPRO (the Swiss-Ukrainian Decentralisation Support Project in Ukraine), the ILO, Freedom House, the Alliance for Public Health, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine, the Kyiv City State Administration, and the embassies of the Netherlands, the United States, Canada and others.

The main areas of Yu. O. Pryvalov's research interests were social consciousness, social construction, the sociology of risk, local self-government in Ukraine, political leadership, freedom, democracy, modernisation, the discrimination and stigmatisation of vulnerable groups of the population, and behavioural research among groups at risk of HIV/AIDS and STIs. He worked actively on problems of public administration, the development of democracy and the modernisation of Ukrainian society. Among Yurii Oleksiiovych's main scholarly works are: “Freedom as a civilisational principle” (in two books), “Populism: theory and practice, history and the present” (in two books), “Social dialogue and transformational change in Ukraine”, “The civilisational choice of Ukrainian society: coordinates — risks — prospects”, “Political leadership”, “The modernisation of Ukrainian society in a globalising world”.

The total number of Yu. O. Pryvalov's scholarly works is 150.

From 1998 he was elected a member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine. Since 2000 he was a member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine. Since 2004 he was a member of the UNDP HIV/AIDS Advisory Council. He gained particular experience abroad: in the United States (October 1999) and in the United Kingdom (December 1999 and June 2006).

Yurii Oleksiiovych's personal qualities — humanity, responsibility, respect, composure, fairness and care — always found a grateful response among colleagues and friends, and his professional opinion, advice and comments were received by them and by the expert community as weighty and authoritative.

Yu. O. Pryvalov received a distinction of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine — he was awarded the medal “For professional achievement” for outstanding scholarly accomplishments and on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

We express our deep condolences to the family of Yurii Oleksiiovych Pryvalov, to those close to him, to his colleagues and to all who knew him and worked with such an exceptional person.

May the memory of a respected scholar, an authoritative leader, a dear colleague and friend be bright!

The administration, the staff and the Department of Social Expertise of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine