ПАМ’ЯТІ ВІДОМОГО УКРАЇНСЬКОГО ВЧЕНОГО - ЕКОЛОГА, ЗАСЛУЖЕНОГО ЛІСІВНИКА УКРАЇНИ, ПРОФЕСОРА, АКАДЕМІКА ЛІСІВНИЧОЇ АКАДЕМІЇ НАУК УКРАЇНИ ПАРПАНА ВАСИЛЯ ІВАНОВИЧА (06.01.1945 – 19.12.2022)

The article is a tribute to a prominent Ukrainian scientist, doctor of biological sciences, professor, honored forester of Ukraine, academician of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, full member of the Ukrainian Ecological Academy, Honorary Professor of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (since 2017), Parpan Vasyl Ivanovych, who passed away on December 19, 2022. Vasyl Ivanovych was a forest scientist, well-known in Ukraine and abroad, an expert in the fields of ecology, soil science, forestry, ecology, phytocenology, geobotany, dendrology, population biology, recreation and nature management, protection and rational use of natural resources, an advocate of primeval forest mountain ecosystems of the Carpathians. A significant achievement of Professor Vasyl Ivanovych Parpan was the establishment of the Ukrainian P.S. Pasternak Research Institute of Mountain Forestry based on the Carpathian branch (Ivano-Frankivsk) of the Ukrainian H. M. Vysotskyi Research Institute of Forestry and Agroforestry (UkrNDILGA, Kharkiv). The scientific output of Professor Vasyl Ivanovych Parpan consists of more than 300 scientific works, including monographs and articles in domestic and foreign journals, teaching aids, popular scientific publications, materials and abstracts of reports at international congresses, all-Ukrainian scientific and practical conferences.