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Vasylkiv Air Base

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MiG 29 2008 Vasylkiv
MiG 29 2008 Vasylkiv

Vasylkiv (also Vasyl'kiv) was an air base of the Ukrainian Air Force located near Vasylkiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. The base was home to the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade.

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Vasylkiv Air Base
Hlevakha Settlement Hromada

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N 50.233333333333 ° E 30.3 °
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08606 Hlevakha Settlement Hromada
Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
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Pavlo Tutkovsky
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Pavlo Tutkovsky (Ukrainian: Павло Аполлонович Тутковський; 1 March 1858 – 3 June 1930) was a Ukrainian geologist, geographer, and professor. He is best known as a founding member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and for establishing the Institute of Geological Sciences of the academy in 1926. Born in Lipovets into an Imperial Russian noble father and the Western European aristocratic family of Lippomano, he first entered in 1877 Kyiv University in their natural sciences department. After graduating in 1882, he worked at the university and was also elected a member of the Kyiv Society of Naturalists, for whom he would conduct geographical research for until 1902. Moving to Lutsk in 1900, he became an inspector of public schools for Lutsky Uyezd until moving to Zhytomyr to become director of public schools in the Volyn Province in 1909. In 1911 he defended his doctoral dissertation at Moscow University and was awarded the title of "Doctor of Geography". Afterward, he came back to Kyiv University to become a professor in the Department of Geography. In 1917 he created the Geographical Institute at Kyiv University, and in 1919, became a founding member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He was immediately elected chairman and also head of the Physics and Mathematics Department. From 1924 to 1926, he then headed the research Department of Goology, which in 1926 was reorganized into the Institute of Geological Sciences, and of which he became the director. In 1930 he died in Kyiv.