Chavdarov, Sava [Чавдаров, Сава; Čavdarov], b 9 August 1892 in the village of Belshama, Bessarabia, d 20 September 1962 in Kyiv. Ukrainian scholar and pedagogue; corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic from 1947. From 1929 to 1939 Chavdarov lectured at pedagogical institutes in Kyiv. From 1939 he was a professor at Kyiv University, and from 1944 he was chairman of the Department of Pedagogy. He was also director of the Scientific Research Institute of Pedagogy of Ukraine from 1944 to 1956. His works deal with such topics as approaches to educational work in the Soviet school system, influence on the students’ world view, the history of pedagogical theory, the methodology of teaching the Ukrainian language, and Taras Shevchenko’s views on pedagogy.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]