Virzhykovsky, Roman

Virzhykovsky, Roman [Віржиковський, Роман; Viržykovs'kyj], b 28 July 1891 in Poti, Georgia, d 3 September 1937. Geologist. He graduated from Kyiv University in 1916. In 1928 he was appointed a professor at the Kyiv Hydromelioration Institute and head of the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Hydraulics and Melioration. After moving to Kharkiv in 1935, he served as a government consultant on hydrogeological research. He was the author of a Ukrainian textbook in hydrogeology (1932) and of several geological maps of Podilia and Moldavia. He was arrested during the Stalinist terror in 1937, sentenced to death by firing squad, and executed.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]