Yukhym Zvyahilsky: Difference between revisions

Zvyahilsky was born the son of a [[Jews|Jewish]]<ref>[https://zn.ua/politcs_archive/efim_zvyagilskiy_umirat_ya_budu_doma,_v_donetske,_kak_by_mne_ne_staralis_pomeshat.html Ефим Звягильский: «УМИРАТЬ Я БУДУ ДОМА, В ДОНЕЦКЕ, КАК БЫ МНЕ НЕ СТАРАЛИСЬ ПОМЕШАТЬ»]</ref><ref>[http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radan_gs09/d_ank_arh?kod=10802 Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України]</ref> civil servant in [[Donetsk|Stalino]] on 20 February 1933. In 1956, he graduated from the Donetsk Industrial Institute as a mining engineer. After graduating, Zvyahilsky worked at mine #13 of the Soviet [[trust company]] "Kuibyshevugol" (Kuibyshev Coal) as a chief assistant, later as a chief of a coal precinct, chief engineer, and director. In 1972 he wrote a thesis, "Observation of regional technological schemes of mining fields in the development of thin inclined layers (in reference to the Donetsk-Makiivka region of [[Donbas|Donetsk basin]])" ([[Moscow State Mining University|Moscow Mining Institute]]), earning him the academical title of a [[Candidate of Sciences]]. Later Zvyahilsky defended his doctorate on the subject "Geomechanical foundations of landslides of the earth surface above mines, which can be eliminated" (Institute of geotechnical mechanics of the [[National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine]]). Coincidentally, in the early 1990s, Ukraine suffered from the miners' strikes that led to the [[1994 Ukrainian presidential election|early presidential elections in 1994]].