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Serhiy Ivanovych Kot (Template:Lang-uk; 22 June 1958 – 28 March 2022) was a Ukrainian historian. A senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, he focused on preservation of historical and cultural property, history of conservation and burial work in Ukraine, cultural property return and restitution. He was a member of the museum's board, and was awarded the title Honoured cultural worker of Ukraine.

Life and career

Kot was born in Kyiv. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Pedagogy of the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute in 1980. He worked at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he became head of the Centre for the Study of the Problems of the Return and Restitution of Cultural Treasure in 1999. In his research, he focused on preservation of historical and cultural heritage, history of establishment of heritage conservation in Ukraine, return and restitution of cultural property. In 2013, he became a member of the National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kyiv".

In 2020, Kot was instrumental in seeking restitution of a painting by Lucas Cranach, a dyptich of Adam and Eve unlawfully taken to Saint Petersburg and now at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, to Ukraine.

Kot was promoted to the doctorate of history in 2021. He was head of the board of the Foundation of Oleg Olzhych. He was awarded the title Honoured cultural worker of Ukraine [uk].

Kot died on 28 March 2022, at age 63.

Publications

His publications include a 1989 book about local history in the Ukrainian SSR, and books about Ukrainian cultural values in Russia, and the problems of their return in the context of history and law, published in 1996 and 1998. In 2006, he prepared a book for publication, The Ukrainian Quation, a collection of articles by British journalist Lancelot Lawton about the status of Ukraine in 1930s; Kot spent two years tracing Lawton's original articles, held by the Library of Congress in the U.S.. In 2010, he published research about the the destiny and legal status of the exhibits of a 1941 traveling exhibition of the State Russian Museum in the Crimea, held in museums of Crimea.

He wrote scientific works about the history of the national revolutionary movement, the Bukovyna municipality]], and the Babyn Yar tragedy.

References

1. ^ "Кот Сергій Іванович". Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
2. "Кот Сергій Іванович". resource.history.org.ua (in Ukrainian). 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
3. ^ "Шляхетна Людина науки / Пішов із життя відомий історик, автор «Дня» Сергій КОТ". day.kyiv.ua (in Ukrainian). 28 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
4. ^ "In memoriam: помер Сергій Кот". istpravda.com.ua (in Ukrainian). 28 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
5. Baranovskaya, Marina; Klymchuck, Oleh (27 October 2020). "Ukraine seeks to bring home Renaissance artwork sold under false pretenses". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
6. Siruk, Mykola (23 May 2006). "A book for skeptics "The Ukrainian Question" 70 years later". day.kyiv.ua. Retrieved 29 March 2022. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 20 (help)

External links

• Кот Сергій Іванович (in Ukrainian) scholar.google.com.ua

• 1958 births
• 2022 deaths
• People from Kyiv
• Ukrainian historians