Rakhmanov Oleksandr Adolfovych

Qualifications, honorary titles and awards:

1995, Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. Faculty of sociology and psychology of the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, speciality sociology, awarded the specialist qualification «sociologist, lecturer».
In 2007, at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, he defended a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sociological Sciences (on the topic «Socio-cultural factors of the institutionalisation of Ukrainian entrepreneurship»).
In 2013, at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, he defended a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Sociological Sciences (on the topic «Owners of large capital as a subject of socio-economic transformations in Ukraine»).
In 2012 he was awarded the academic title of associate professor.

From 1996 to 2019 he held various positions at the department of political science and sociology of the Kyiv National Economic University: postgraduate student, assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor and professor of the department of political science and sociology of the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University.
He was awarded the honorary title «Distinguished Employee of the State Higher Educational Institution «Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University».
He received a Certificate of Merit of the State Higher Educational Institution «Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University» for his great personal contribution to training highly qualified specialists and for fruitful academic and teaching work.

At the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine he has been a leading research fellow since 2014.
Member of specialised council D 26.229.01 for the degree of Doctor (Candidate) of Sociological Sciences. Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine.

Research interests: the oligarchisation of Ukraine, studies of the social aspects of entrepreneurial activity and of the formation of the class of large owners as a subject of socio-economic transformations in contemporary Ukraine, social stratification and the class structure of society, ethnosociology, the problems of democratisation, the otaman movement in Ukrainian society in 1917-1921.