In homage to a colleague: to the centennial a Transcarpathian educator and scientist Andrey Ignat

The thesis that Sovietisation of the regions that became part of the USSR in the postwar period had an extremely negative impact on their development has been dominant in history for long. Though nobody challenges it, it is necessary to draw attention to the enormous efforts in the sphere of formation and organisation of the education system. Transcarpathia, which for a long time had been under the rule of different states, was no exception. The problems of the formation of the education system, its active financing in the difficult period of the post-war collapse, the formation of a network of educational institutions, the active struggle against illiteracy of the population must be voiced in the lense of the role of an individual. The role of Andrey Mikhailovich Ignat, an extraordinary personality, scholar, Latinist, scientist, teacher, Dean of the Historical and Philological Faculty of Uzhgorod State University and a public figure has not been sufficiently analysed. It is necessary to give proper respect to this person, who had to revive and rebuild the regional education system in the post-war period. A.M. Ignat is also remembered as a scientist, the author of dissertations The Russian Wars of Stefan Batoriy (Debrecen, 1942), Essays on the History of the Development of Public Education in Transcarpathian Region (1945-1955) (USSR, 1956). He prepared a doctoral thesis but never got a chance to defend it. As a translator and expert in Latin, he translated the third volume of Mikhail Luchkay's The History of Carpathian Rusins, but he did not last until the publication in a modern printed form.

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