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Protasiv Yar

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Protasiv Yar (Ukrainian: Протасів Яр) is a historical neighborhood located in Solomianskyi and Holosiivskyi (districts) of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is located between Baikova and Batyieva Mountains. Protasiv Yar railway station is located in the lower part of the neighborhood, close to Lybid River. Yar means gully, and Protas is a male name, supposedly of a local villager or a former owner of the area. The forest area estimates approximately 30 ha. The local activists fought to protect this area from illegal construction for several years; in 2018 Roman Ratushnyi founded Save Protasiv Yar initiative, which was later institutionalised. In July 2022, the Kyiv City Council supported the decision to create a landscape reserve on both slopes of Protasiv Yar in Kyiv.

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Protasiv Yar
Mykoly Amosova Street, Kyiv

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Mikhail Ptukha (also transliterated as Mykhailo Ptukha; 7 November 1884 – 3 October 1961) was a Ukrainian statistician and demographer. He most notably helped found the Demographic Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which he was the dean of from 1919 until 1938 following its liquidation. Born in Oster in the Russian Empire Ptukha first started working in statistics during his years at the local gymnasium, working in the statistics section of the Chernihiv zemstvo bureau. In 1906 he entered the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg University, where he graduated from in 1910, afterward studying abroad in Western Europe until 1914. In 1916 he defended his master's thesis, and in that same year, he began working for the newly created Perm University as a professor in political economy and statistics, which he did until the Russian Revolution. He moved back to Ukraine during the revolution, working as a professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the People's University of Ukraine. In 1919 he became the dean of the newly created Demographic Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and so in the 1920s he started working on collaborating the institute with the International Statistical Institute. During the Great Purge, he was arrested many times and eventually the institute was liquidated, which led him in 1940 to start working at the Department of Statistics of the Institute of Economics and become the Department of Social Sciences. He officially retired in 1950, although he continued to do statistical work until his death in 1961.