The winner of the second national award competition of the Heavenly Hundred Hero Yurii Verbytsky was announced in Ukraine.
About the 2020 competition
Young researchers and students submitted articles to the competition dedicated to the scientific work of Yurii Verbytskyi. The public organization «Family of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes» together with the Council of Young Scientists at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine announced the winner.
The works came from the following institutions:
- Institute of Geodesy, Lviv Polytechnic National University;
- National Technical University «Dnipro Polytechnic»;
- Seismic Station «Korolevo» of the Carpathian Research and Methodological Seismological Party, the Department of Seismicity of the Carpathian Region of the Subbotin Institute of Geophysics, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The members of the jury are leading scientists in the field.
Who became the winner
The best work was the article «Spatial-temporal distribution of seismicity of the Transcarpathian inner deep according to the results of geophysical monitoring» by Adalbert Ignatyshyn, who met with Verbytskyi at the Korolevo station.
Who else was awarded
The work of Sofia Doskich, Assistant at the Department of Higher Geodesy and Astronomy, Lviv Polytechnic National University, entitled «Crustal structure deformations of the Carpathian Region according to GNSS Observations», which makes it possible to establish the features of the spatial distribution of the Earth’s crust motion in this region and in the future to create a regional geodynamic model of the Carpathian fold system.
About Yuri Verbytsky and the award in his honour
Yurii Verbytskyi was a graduate of the Institute of Geodesy, Lviv Polytechnic. He was a researcher, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, who worked as an engineer in the seismic department of the Carpathian branch of the Subbotin Institute of Geophysics, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv.
He took part in the Maidan, where he was first attacked by rubber bullets by security forces. He was later abducted and tortured on the night of January 22, 2014, for his civic position.
The award is based on a volunteer basis. Everyone who joins it wants Verbytskyi’s work to live on.
More details you can find in the article Відомий переможець другої Відзнаки імені Юрія Вербицького on the website of 24 TV Channel.