List of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy people

This is a list of notable people associated with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), a public research university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. Students, alumni and faculty members of the university and all its predecessor institutions including Kyiv Brotherhood School (KBS), Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium (KMC), Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (KMA) and Kyiv Theological Academy (KTA) are included in this list.

Seal of Kyiv Mohyla Academy.

Many students and professors of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the 17th and 18th centuries pursued many activities except church career. They were often also writers, philosophers, theologicians and educators in a broad sense. This is indicated in the list where appropriate.

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Religion

Feofan Prokopovich, archbishop, philosopher, writer

Dimitry of Rostov, archbishop

Stephen Yavorsky, archbishop

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Sylvestr Kosiv	professor of KMC	Metropolitan of Kiev, writer	[1]
Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni	student of KMA	Metropolitan of Moldavia (1792); Metropolitan of Kherson and Crimea (1793–1799); Metropolitan of Kiev and Halych (1799–1803); Exarch of Moldo-Wallachia (1806–1812); Metropolitan of Chişinău (1812–1821)	[2]
Macarius I	student, professor of KTA	Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna	[3]
Nicodim Munteanu	student of KTA	Patriarch of All Romania	[4]
Stephen Yavorsky	student of KMA	Metropolitan archbishop of Ryazan and Murom; first president of the Most Holy Synod; writer	[5]
Feofan Prokopovich	student, professor, rector of KMA	Metropolitan archbishop of Novgorod and Velykolutsk,; philosopher; writer	[6]
Dimitry of Rostov	student of KMA	Metropolitan archbishop of Rostov	[7]
Epifany Slavinetsky	student, professor of KMA	Ecclesiastical expert of the Russian Orthodox Church	[8]
Paisius Velichkovsky	student of KMA	The founder of modern Eastern Orthodox staretsdom; writer; philosopher	[8]
Constantius I	student of KMA	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1830-1834	[8]
Visarion Puiu	student of KTA	Metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church	[9]
Rafail Zaborovsky	student of KMA	Metropolitan of Kiev, Galychyna and All-Rus'	[10]
Patriarch Adrian	student of KMC	Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia	[11]

Politics

Hetmans of Ukraine

Ivan Mazepa, Grand Hetman

Pylyp Orlyk, Hetman in exile

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Ivan Mazepa	student of KMA	Grand Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine, 1687–1708	[12]
Pylyp Orlyk	student of KMA	Hetman in exile; author of one of the first state constitutions in Europe	[13]
Pavlo Polubotok	student of KMA	Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine, 1722-1724	[14]
Ivan Samoylovych	student of KMA	Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine, 1672-1687	[8]
Ivan Vyhovsky	student of KMA	Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, 1657-1659	[15]
Ivan Skoropadsky	student of KMA	Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, 1708–1722	[8]
Yurii Khmelnytsky	student of KMA	Hetman of Ukraine, 1659-1660 and 1678–1681	[8]

Other prominent political figures

Alexander Bezborodko, Grand Chancellor of Russia

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Alexander Bezborodko	student of KMA	Grand Chancellor of Russia	[16]
Dmytro Troshchynskyi	student of KMA	Minister of justice of Russia in 1814	[17]
Antin Holovaty	student of KMA	Founder of the Black Sea Cossack Host	[8]
Serhiy Kvit	professor of NaUKMA	Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
Oleksiy Pavlenko	student of KTU	Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine[18]
Serhiy Yefremov	student of KTU	Secretary of International Affairs for Ukraine	[19]
Mykola Tomenko	professor of NaUKMA	Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada; Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the first cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko	[20]
Ostap Semerak	student of NaUKMA	Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of 6th convocation; Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Andriy Shevchenko (politician)	student of NaUKMA	Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine	[21]
Pavlo Sheremeta	professor of NaUKMA	Minister of Economical Development and Trade of Ukraine
Iryna Vannykova	student of NaUKMA	Press secretary of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko	[22]
Pyotr Zavadovsky	student of KMA	Minister of Education in Russia in 1802	[8]

Arts and music

Dmytro Bortniansky, composer, conductor, and singer

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi	student of KMA	Architect who worked in the Ukrainian baroque style	[23]
Maksym Berezovsky	student of KMA	Composer, opera singer and violinist	[24]
Artemy Vedel	student of KMA	Composer, conductor, singer and violinist	[8]
Dmytro Bortniansky	student of KMA	Composer, conductor, singer	[8]
Dmitry Levitzky	student of KMA	Portrait painter	[8]
Oleksander Koshyts	student of KTA	Composer, choral conductor, arranger	[25]

Literature

Symeon of Polotsk, poet, dramatist, and churchman

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Symeon of Polotsk	student of KMA	Belarusian-Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener who laid the groundwork for the development of modern Russian literature	[8]
Jovan Rajić	student of KMA	Serbian writer, historian and pedagogue	[26]
Alexei Mateevici	student of KTA	Moldavian poet	[27]
Maryna Sokolyan	student of NaUKMA	Contemporary writer	[28]

Natural sciences

Mikhail Lomonosov, scientist, writer and polymath

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Mikhail Lomonosov	student of KMA	Russian scientist, writer and polymath	[29]
Iryney Falkovskyi	student, rector of KMA	Mathematician, astronomer, historian, writer; bishop of Chyhyryn, Smolensk and Dorogobuzk	[8]

Humanities and social sciences

Hryhori Skovoroda, philosopher, poet and singer

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Meletius Smotrytsky	rector, professor of KBS	Linguist, writer; archbishop of Polotsk, Vitebsk and Mstislav	[8]
Hryhori Skovoroda	student of KMA	Philosopher, poet and singer.	[30]
Samiylo Velychko	student of KMA	Historian, author of the Cossack Chronicle	[8]
Pamphil Yurkevych	student, professor of KTA	Philosopher.	[31]
Innokentiy Gizel	rector, student of KMC	Historian	[32]
James Mace	professor of NaUKMA	American historian and prominent researcher of Holodomor	[33]
Maryna Tkachuk	dean, professor of NaUKMA	Historian of philosophy	[34]
Olena Semeniaka	student of NaUKMA	political activist, academic and philosopher	[35]
Nadia Parfan	student of NaUKMA	film director and creative producer	[36]

Other

Petro Prokopovych, founder of commercial beekeeping

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskyi	president, professor of NaUKMA	Initiator of reestablishment; the first president of NaUKMA; Hero of Ukraine	[37]
Petro Prokopovych	student of KMA	Founder of commercial beekeeping	[38]
Dmytro Tarabakin	student of NaUKMA	Director, Head of Trading and Domestic Sales of Dragon Capital	[39]

Fictional people

Name	Relationship to the university	Notability	Reference
Andriy Bulba	NA	Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba	[40]
Ostap Bulba	NA	Character in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba	[40]

Notes

1. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Sylvestr Kosiv". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
2. "Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2008-01-07. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
3. "Makariy Bulgakov" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
4. "Patriarhul Nicodim Munteanu" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2008-05-12.
5. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Stefan Yavorsky". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
6. "Teofan Prokopovych in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine". Retrieved 2007-12-29.
7. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Dymytrii Rostovsky". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
8. Briukhovets’kyi, V. et al. (eds). (2001). Kyievo-Mohylians'ka akademiia v imenakh, XVII–XVIII st: Entsyklopedychne vydannia (in Ukrainian). Kiev: Publishing House "Kiev-Mohyla Academy". ISBN 966-518-132-7.
9. "Mitropolitul Visarion Puiu" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on October 21, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
10. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Rafail Zaborovsky". Retrieved 2009-05-08.
11. Omeljan Pritsak and Ihor Sevcenko, eds. "The Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of Its Founding, 1632-1982)." Harvard Ukrainian Studies. vol. VIII, no. 1/2. Cambridge, MA, 1985. P. 83.
12. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Ivan Mazepa". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
13. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Pylyp Orlyk". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
14. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Pavlo Polubotok". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
15. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Ivan Vyhovsky". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
16. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Oleksander Bezborodko". Retrieved 2008-03-08.
17. "List of Public Prosecutors of Russia" (in Russian). Retrieved 2008-03-08.
18. (in Ukrainian) Agricultural ministry headed by a graduate of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Pavlenko, Televiziyna Sluzhba Novyn (2 December 2014)
19. Serhiy Yefremov
20. "People's Deputy of Ukraine Mykola Tomenko" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
21. "People's Deputy of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
22. "NaUKMA alumni 2001" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-03-08.
23. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi". Retrieved 2008-03-08.
24. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Maksym Berezovsky". Retrieved 2008-03-08.
25. "Oleksander Koshyts - famous conductor" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
26. "Biography of Jovan Rajić" (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 2008-03-18. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
27. "Alexei Mateevici - a saver of the language" (in Russian). Retrieved 2008-07-29.
28. "NaUKMA - 2002" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2007-09-22.
29. "A. I. L'vovich-Kostritsa, Mikhail Lomonosov His Life and Literary Activity" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
30. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Hryhorii Skovoroda". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
31. uk:Юркевич Памфіл Данилович
32. "Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Innkentii Gizel". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
33. "James Mace at NaUKMA" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-03-04.
34. "Administration of NaUKMA". Retrieved 2020-02-14.
35. "Team". Intermarium. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
36. "Nadia Parfan | Producer, Director, Writer". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
37. "President of NaUKMA V.S. Bryukhovetsky" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2007-12-29.
38. "Biography of Petro Prokopovych". Retrieved 2007-12-10.
39. "Dragon Capital". Archived from the original on 2007-01-03. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
40. "Taras Bulba by N. Gogol". Retrieved 2007-09-01.

References

• NaUKMA notable professors and students Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
• Briukhovets’kyi, V. et al. (eds). (2001). Kyievo-Mohylians'ka akademiia v imenakh, XVII–XVIII st: Entsyklopedychne vydannia (in Ukrainian). Kiev: Publishing House "Kiev-Mohyla Academy". ISBN 966-518-132-7.