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HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTE OF HYDROMECHANICS OF NAS OF UKRAINE
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

April 1, 1926

A Scientific Research Institute of Water Resources of Ukraine is established under the Ministry of Education (Commissariat). Prof. E. V. Oppokov is approved as a Director of the Institute.

1927

The first volume of the Institute Proceedings
"Visti Naukovo-Doslіdnogo Institutu Vodnogo Gospodarstva Ukrainy"
 is published.

1934

The Institute is submitted to the system of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

1937

The Institute has suffered a heavy loss. Its founding Director, Academician E. V. Oppokov has been accused of spying and executed.

1938

After the major personnel changes, the Institute was renamed to the Institute of Hydrology of Ukrainian SSR.

1940

A Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR G. I. Suhomel becomes the Director of the Institute.

1941

Temporary cessation of activities of the Institute and its inclusion as a department of the Institute of Structural Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR. Evacuation to Ufa (Bashkortostan, Ural region of Russian Federation).

1944

Institute is reactivated as an independent organization and renamed to the Institute of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR (Director – Academician G. I. Suhomel).

1958

A Candidate of Technical Sciences M. Didkovskiy becomes the Director of the Institute.

1964

The Institute is transformed into the Institute of Hydromechanics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR.

1966

Academician G. V. Logvinovich becomes the Director of the Institute.

1972

A Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR A. Ya. Oleinik becomes the Director of the Institute.

1981

A Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR A. D. Fedorovskii becomes the Director of the Institute.

1987

Prof. V. T. Grinchenko (now he is an Academician of NAS of Ukraine) becomes the Director of the Institute.

2021

A Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine G. Voropaiev becomes the Director of the Institute.