Scientific Issue Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Series: Biology

On July 13, 2023, at the age of 86, the renowned Ukrainian scientist-botanist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Distinguished Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, Full Member (Academician) of the Ukrainian Ecological Academy of Sciences, Honored Educator of Ukraine, Honored Naturalist of Ukraine, Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Botanical Society, Soros Professor, Scholar of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of Botany and Zoology at Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University, Barna Mykola Mykolaiovych, passed away.
From August 1971, the life of Mykola Mykolaiovych was closely and inseparably linked to Ternopil Pedagogical University, the faculty of natural sciences and now chemical-biological faculty, of which he was the dean for 16 years. For over 50 years, he devoted all his organizational talent, knowledge, skills, and his passionate soul to his job, his close-knit team, and the student youth. He was a highly qualified educator and coach, adept organizer of the educational process and training of highly qualified pedagogical personnel, a versatile and deeply thoughtful individual, a Person with a capital letter, a patriot of Ukraine and Lemkivshchyna.
The contribution of Barna Mykola Mykolaiovych is invaluable. At his initiative and with his direct participation, the botanical garden of Ternopil State Pedagogical Institute was established. He created the herbarium of the Department of Botany, now known as the “Laboratory of Plant Morphology and Systematics - Herbarium,” as well as the laboratory of biology and ecology “Holitsky Bio Station of the University.” He founded the scientific journal “Scientific Notes of Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University. Series: Biology.” Mykola Mykolaiovych conceived the idea of establishing a Biblical Botanical Garden on the territory of TNPU, which has already been implemented.

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Pyda C. V., Drobyk N. M., Barna L. S., Herts N. V., Matsiuk O. B. Barna Mykola Mykolayovych – vidomyi ukrainskyi vchenyi–botanik, tsytoembrioloh, zasluzhenyi diiach nauky i tekhniky Ukrainy, pedahoh (do 85 – richchia vid dnia narodzhennia). Naukovi zapysky Ternopilskoho natsionalnoho pedahohichnoho universytetu imeni Volodymyra Hnatiuka. Seriia: Biolohiia. 2023. T. 83, No 1–2. S. 84–92. DOI : 10.25128/2078-2357.23.1–2.12. [in Ukrainian]

Mykola Barna. Curriculum vitae: nauk.-popul. vyd. / uklad.: L. S. Barna, N. V. Herts. Avtor peredmovy akademik NAN Ukrainy K. M. Sytnyk. Ternopil : Pidruchnyky i posibnyky, 2008. 288 s. : il. [in Ukrainian]

Mykola Barna. Radotsyna v moiemu sertsi: nauk.-popul. vyd. Ternopil : Pidruchnyky i posibnyky, 2011. 240 s. : il. [in Ukrainian]

Narysy istorii khimiko-biolohichnoho fakultetu Ternopilskoho natsionalnoho pedahohichnoho universytetu imeni Volodymyra Hnatiuka (1940–2010) : naukovo-publitsystychne vydannia / M. M. Barna, V. Z. Kurant, L. S. Barna [ta in.]; za red. M. M. Barny. Ternopil : Pidruchnyky i posibnyky, 2010. 308 s. [in Ukrainian]