In memory of Galina Nikolaevna Shvetsova-Vodka (1943–2023)

The article is a tribute to the prominent Soviet and Ukrainian documentologist and bibliography scientist Galina N. Shvetsova-Vodka. Upon her graduation from the East-Siberian State Institute of Culture (Ulan-Ude) in 1966, Galina Shvetsova-Vodka studied at Leningrad State Institute of Culture under Master’s Program (1967–1971), and taught at the Institute’s bibliography chair till 1979. She moved to the city of Rovno, Ukrainian SSR, and served as an assistant professor at the bibliographic studies chair of Rovno State Institute of Culture (1979– 1987), and headed the chair till 1995. In 1995–1998, Galina Shvetsova-Vodka served as the professor of the chair, and then, to the end of her life – the professor of Rovno State Humanitarian University. In 2002, she defended her doctoral thesis “The document and book within the system of social communications” and thus became the first Doctor of Science in documentology in the Commonwealth of Independent States. She became a professor in 2005. Galina N. Shvetsova- Vodka died on May 1, 2023, in Rovno, Ukraine. The range of her interests in science, as reflected in her 260 publications, comprised documentology, bibliography, library science, bibliology. Her principal works are “Defining the document in the documentary and information studies” (1991), “The general theory of document and book” (2009), “The document in the light of noocommunicology” (2010). In the area of documentology, Galina Shvetsova-Vodka was a pioneer in many senses. She was one of the first of those who supported the idea of document – noosphere interconnection, and the concept of Bibliologos introduced by Arkady V. Sokolov. She made a significant contribution to the bibliographic science by publishing the textbook “The general bibliographic science: The basics of the theory of bibliography” (1995); “The bibliographic resources in Ukraine” (2000); “The introduction to the bibliography” (2004) (2004). She also studied the history of critical bibliographic periodicals of 1920s, many other aspects of the bibliography theory, history, and practice.