He graduated from the Donbas State Machine-Building Academy (1970) and from the postgraduate programme of the department of social psychology of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1981). He defended a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philosophical Sciences on «The educational role of the head of a primary labour collective» in 1986 at the Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine. He worked as a lecturer of the department of sociology and as head of the first sociological laboratory of the department of sociology of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1983). He has worked at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine since its founding in 1991.
Research interests: economic sociology, electoral sociology, the sociology of security.
Selected publications
Pamiati Valeriia Mykhailovycha (Пам’яті Валерія Михайловича, “In memory of Valerii Mykhailovych”) — Burov Igor Volodymyrovych · V. M. Vorona — vidomyi uchenyi, vydatnyi orhanizator, neperesichna liudyna / za red. V YE. Holovakhy, M. Shulhy · 43-48 · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2023
Dynamika doviry do prezydentiv Ukrainy (Динаміка довіри до президентів України, “The dynamics of trust in the presidents of Ukraine”) — Burov Igor Volodymyrovych · Ukrainske suspilstvo: monitorynh sotsialnykh zmin · Iss. 6 (20) · 354-359 · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2019 · full text
Some Factors That Influence Social Behavior of Individuals — Burov Igor Volodymyrovych, Burova Olga Igorivna · Ukrainske suspilstvo: monitorynh sotsialnykh zmin. / Hol. red-ry d. ekon. n. V.M. Vorona, d. sotsiol. n. M.O. Shulha · Iss. 4 (18) · 306–310 · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2017 · full text
Social factors of national identification — Burov Igor Volodymyrovych, Burova Olga Igorivna · Ukrainske suspilstvo monitorynh sotsialnykh zmin · Iss. 2 (16) · 83–91 · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2015 · full text
Pro deiaki sotsialni pokaznyky vplyvu na natsionalnu bezpeku (Про деякі соціальні показники впливу на національну безпеку, “On some social indicators of the influence on national security”) — Burov Igor Volodymyrovych · Ukrainske suspilstvo: monitorynh sotsialnykh zmin · 393–401 · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2014
