Mykola Shytyuk
Mykola Shytyuk was a Ukrainian academician, historian, doctor of historical sciences. Since 2008 he was a director of the Institute of history and law of the Mykolaiv University.
Shytnyuk was born on 30 November 1953 in the village Lysa Hora, Lysa Hora Raion in a family of construction engineer and teacher of geography. After graduating a rural school in Lysa Hora, Shytyuk enrolled in pedagogic uchilishche in Novyi Buh, where he graduated in 1972 with a diploma of teacher of early grades. After that throughout most of the 1970s he worked in several schools of Mykolaiv Oblast with a small break when he served his military obligation in Belorussian Military District.
After being demobilized, in 1975 Shytyuk also enrolled in the history faculty of the Kiev University.
On 1 September 2018 the scientist and researcher of Holodomor was found dead in an apartment in Mykolaiv with a knife in his back.
