Volodymyr Havrylovych Bondarchuk 29 July 1905 – 27 February 1993

Geologist, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy (from 1941), Head of the Department of General Geology (1935-1941, 1944-1951), Rector of the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv (1944-1951), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1951-1953), Director of the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Science of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1953-1963), Academician of the Academy of Science of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (from 1951), Distinguished Figure in Science of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (from 1970)