Volodymyr Biletskyy
Volodymyr Stefanovych Biletskyy (; born 26 January 1950 in Matviivka, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian mining engineer, D.Sc. scientist and researcher in the field of coal mining, publisher and political scientist. He has published many technical articles on the subject of mining, and was the initiator and editor of the first Ukrainian Mining Encyclopedia. Biography Biletskyy finished Vilniansk high school in 1967 and then studied at the electro-technical faculty of the National Mining University of Ukraine. Graduating in 1972, he worked as an engineer in the research department of the faculty of automation of manufacturing processes at the same university (1974–1975). Between 1975 and 1976 he worked as the chief engineer at the coal mine operated by the State Coal Enterprise in Makiivka, and then as a research assistant in the electrical department of the Makiivka Research Institute, researching safety in mining production (1977–1979). In 1981 Biletskyy then became the head research assistant at the Donetsk National Technical University. In 1986 Biletsky finished post-graduate studies; in 1994 he completed his Doctorate in Technical Science and in 2004 he was elected as an academic to the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine (a public-funded research institution part of the National Academy of