Phys. Geog. Geom. 2025, 48(1): 69–78

https://doi.org/10.17721/phgg.2025.48.1/129.07

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“YOU HAVE TO GIVE A NEW VISION OF LANDSCAPES”

To the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor I. M. Roslyi

Volodymyr M. Pashchenko
Kyiv department of Ukrainian geographical society

Abstract
Ivan Mykhailovych Roslyi – an outstanding Ukrainian geographer-geomorphologist, paleogeographer (January 14, 1925, the village of Vedyltsi, Kozlyansky District, now Chernihiv District, Chernihiv Oblast – January 17, 1989, Kyiv; buried in his native village). He graduated from the Konotop Pedagogical College (1941), the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1951) and its postgraduate studies (1954). Participant of World War II: during the German occupation – as part of a partisan detachment. Since 1943, I.M. Roslyi served in the active army: scout, detachment commander, commander of a topographic reconnaissance group. He had combat awards, including the Order of Glory.
Growing up in Ukrainiаn Polissya, a region rich in dialects and dialects of the Ukrainiаn language, he dreamed of studying to be a philologist and dedicating himself to linguistic geography. Having no support from his family due to his family's poverty and orphanhood, he had to enter the geography faculty of Kyiv State University in order to earn part-time work on field expeditions, with which his entire subsequent life was connected.
Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1975), Professor (1976). In 1977–1986 – Head of the Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography of the Faculty of Geography of the T.G. Shevchenko Kyiv State University. For a long time he was the editor-in-chief of the interdepartmental scientific collection “Physical Geography and Geomorphology”. Performing a morphostructural analysis of the Donetsk folded country, in field expeditions he studied the strata of its sedimentary deposits and metamorphic rocks, reconstructed the paleoconditions of their formation. Author of geomorphological maps of the Donetsk Upland and monographic publications: Paleogeography of the Anthropogene, 1982; Nature of the USSR in the Anthropogene, 1986; Geomorphology of the Ukrainian SSR, 1990 (editor).
He was distinguished by the depth and breadth of scientific natural thinking, supported the author’s exploratory theoretical and methodological research in landscape science.

Keywords
Professor I. M. Roslyi, geographer-geomorphologist, paleogeographer, Donetsk Upland, morphostructural analysis, theory and methodology of science, georhealogical vision of landscapes.

 

Received: 14 January 2025 / Accepted: 21 February 2025 / Published online: 27 February 2025