Volodymyr Dobrianskyi

Volodymyr Dobrianskyi
Володимир Казимирович Добрянський
Born (1966-12-12) 12 December 1966
Alma materChernivtsi University
OccupationsScientist, archaeologist, historian, speleologist, and researcher of antiquities, fortifications and toponymy
AwardsPetro Medvedyk Prize

Volodymyr Kazymyrovych Dobrianskyi (Ukrainian: Володимир Казимирович Добрянський, born 12 December 1966) is a Ukrainian scientist, archaeologist, historian, speleologist, and researcher of antiquities, fortifications and toponymy. He became a member of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments in 1981, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 2000, and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine from 2016 to 2020. He also co-founded the NGO "Alternatyva-Chortkiv". He also participated in liquidating the Chornobyl accident of the second category.

Dobrianskyi comes from an ancient family of the Polish nobility with the Sas coat of arms.