Leonid Burlachuk
Leonid Fokich Burlachuk (; 1 January 1947 – 26 November 2022) was a Soviet and Ukrainian psychologist. Among his academic achievements belong: the Doctor of Sciences in Psychological Sciences (1990), professor (1992), academician of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (2010). Biography Burlachuk was born on 1 January 1947, in Leningrad. His father, (1914–1997), was a writer. He studied at the Leningrad State University however subsequently transferred to the Kyiv State University, where in 1970 he graduated from the Psychology Department. After graduation, he continued to work as an assistant, and later as an associate professor at the Department of Social and Pedagogical Psychology of the Kyiv State University. Later he became the head of the Department of Social and Pedagogical Psychology at the same university (1990-1992). Together with , he founded the Department of Psychodiagnostics and Medical (renamed to Clinical in 2008) Psychology. Burlachuk had been the head of the department since its inception in 1992. He had been the Dean of the Psychology Department in 2011–2012. Also, he served as the president of the All-Ukrainian Psychodiagnostic Association and the National Psychological Association of Ukraine (2017-2020). He died on 26 November 2022. Academic career He studied ,