Institute of Regional Research named after M.I. Dolishniy of the NAS of Ukraine

Director - Kravtsiv Vasyl , Doctor of Economics, Professor

The history of the Institute?s functioning starts from 1964, when Lviv Department of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was established. Mykola Meleshkin, the doctor in economics, the corresponding member of the AS of Ukraine, Oleksandr Zaytsev, the doctor in economics, and Maryan Dolishniy, the doctor in economics, professor and academician of the NAS of Ukraine, were the heads of the Department at different times.

After becoming the independent state, Ukraine faced the crucial issues of forming of the regional policy and of the rational use of production, labour, natural and intellectual potential of Ukrainian regions. Considering the urgency of the problematic and the available scientific potential, the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has established the Institute of Regional Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the basis of Lviv Department of the Institute of Economics of the AS according to the Regulation ? 233 of October 19, 1994. The Institute was encharged with the tasks of complex research of the problems of management of social and economic development of Ukrainian regions. Maryan Dolishniy, the doctor in economics, professor, academician of the NAS of Ukraine, was the Director of the Institute in 1994-2006. Since 2006 Vasyl Kravtsiv, the doctor in economics, is in charge of the Institute.

Over the period of its functioning, the activity of the Institute was aimed at the overcoming of fundamental and practical problems of social and economic growth of Ukrainian regions and development of theoretical and methodological basis of the state regional policy. Scientific schools over the problems of regionalistics, the enterprise development and regional industrial production, the cross-border cooperation and ecological and economic development of the territorial social systems, which are famous not only within the borders of the state but also abroad, are created in the Institute. The Institute has become one of the leading national academic economic institutions and the well-known centre of the regionalistics in Ukraine.

On October, 2014 the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine adopted a decision on assignment to the Institute of Regional Research of the NAS of Ukraine the name of academician M.I. Dolishniy.