Education and training:

2005 - 2010 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of History; Department of Slavic History. 2010 - 2014 Postgraduate student at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of History. In 2014, he defended his dissertation on the topic: "Establishment of Czechoslovak Military Units in the USSR and Their Participation in the Front Operations of the Red Army (1941-1945)". He defended his PhD thesis in World History.

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Labor activity:

2017 - present, National Museum of History of Ukraine.

Position: Leading Researcher at the Department of Twentieth-Century History of Ukraine.

Additional data:

Author of a number of scientific papers:

Skopnenko B.O. Participation of the First Separate Czechoslovak Battalion in the Battle for Kharkiv in March 1943 (Participation of the First Czechoslovak Battalion in the Battle for Kharkiv in March 1943) / B.O. Skopnenko // University: Scientific Historical and Philosophical Journal. - K., 2012. - Issue 46 (No. 2). - pp. 129-134.

Skopnenko B.O. Creation of airborne units of the Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR (creation of airborne units of the Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR (April-August 1944)) / B.O. Skopnenko // Gilea: Scientific Bulletin - K., 2013 - Issue 7 (74) - pp. 104-106. 3. Skopnenko B.O. Participation of the First Separate Czechoslovak Brigade in the Battle for the Liberation of Kyiv in November 1943 (Participation of the First Separate Czechoslovak Brigade in the Battle for the Liberation of Kyiv in November 1943) / B.O. Skopnenko // Bulletin of Dnipropetrovs'k University: Scientific Journal. - Dnipropetrovs'k, 2013. - Issue 21. - P. 106-112.

Skopnenko B. A. Participation of the First Separate Czechoslovak Brigade in the Zhytomyr-Berdychiv Offensive Operation of the First Ukrainian Front in December 1943 - January 1944. (Participation of the 1st Separate Czechoslovak Brigade in the Zhytomyr-Berdychiv Offensive Operation of the First Ukrainian Front in December 1943 - January 1944) // B. Skopnenko // Historical, Philosophical, Political and Legal Sciences, Cultural Studies and Art History. Voprosy teorii i praktiki: nauchno-theoretical and applied journal. Tambov, 2013. - Vyp. 32 (No. 6). - pp. 160-163.

Skopnenko B.O. Creation of artillery, armored and other special units of the Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR (creation of artillery, armored and other special units of the Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR (April-August 1944)) / B.O. Skopnenko // Chasopys Ukrainian History. - K., 2013. - Issue 27. - P. 37-41.

Skopnenko B. Airborne units of the Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR / B. Skopnenko // Current trends in Ukrainian science: (Ukraine, July 5, 2013) - Issue I / Kyiv: NGO "Scientific Society" Ateneum ", 2013. - pp. 60-65. 7. Skopnenko B. On the question of the scientific classification of personal identification means of servicemen in the context of military conflicts of the twentieth century (On the question of the scientific classification of personal identification means of servicemen in the context of military conflicts of the twentieth century) NMIA conference (Kyiv, December 7-8, 2017).

Interests and hobbies:

Modern history, military history, World War I, the Soviet-Polish War, World War II, problems of the phenomenon of genocide in the USSR (Holocaust studies).