PETRO FEODOSIIOVYCH GOZHYK: OCEANIC, MARINE AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH

Abstract

The article provides a brief overview of the publications, as well as our own memories about the doctor of geological and mineral  sciences, Academician Petro Feodosiiovych Gozhyk — scientist, researcher that had state- and strategic level thinking, about  his contribution to the development of marine geological works in the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy  of Sciences of Ukraine, his role in the creation of the Ukrainian Antarctic Center (nowadays the National Antarctic Research  Center of The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and the importance of his personality for the formation of Ukraine as  «Antarctic State». P.F. Gozhyk was not only one of the initiators of the Center for Antarctic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, but also its first director, the developer of long-term polar research programs at the station «Academician  Vernadsky». His scientific interests were focused on a wide range of subjects, and marine geology was among his scientific priorities. Academician P. F. Gozhyk was an organizer and participant of many round-the-world sea and ocean expeditions to  the Indian, Atlantic and Southern oceans, the Red and Black Seas.  The main publications of P. F. Gozhyk on «geology of the seas and oceans» and «geological studies of Antarctica» are listed in the article.