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Natalia Kuzovova

Date of birth: 16/02/1978 Nationality: Ukrainian Gender: Female Phone number:

[відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») (Work) Email address: [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») Website:

https://www.kspu.edu Address: Shevchenka, 14, 76000, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (Work)

ABOUT ME

Historian, Head of the Department of History, Archaeology and Teaching Methods of Kherson State University,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Fellow of the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue
Fund. Author of the book "Holodomor of 1932-1933 in the Kherson Region". Compiler of archival directories and
collections of documents.

WORK EXPERIENCE

 KHERSON STATE UNIVERSITY – IVANO-FRANKIVSK, UKRAINE
Address Shevchenka, 14, 76000, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARCHEOLOGY AND TEACHING METHODS – 01/09/2018 –
CURRENT
Management and organization of educational, methodical, scientific work of the department; conducting scientific
research and implementing their results in the educational process; preparation of syllabi, methodical manuals, tests
for disciplines taught at the department.
– Responsible editor of the magazine "Southern Archive (Historical Sciences)" (category B). http://
pahs.journal.kspu.edu/index.php/pahs
– Manages the section of the conference and is the responsible editor of the collection of works of the scientific
conference of young historians "Problems of the Regional History of Ukraine" (since 2013).
Teaches educational courses at Kherson State University: "Ukraine and the EU: history of international relations",
"History of Ukraine (New History of Ukraine)", "Methodology of teaching history", "Modern history of Poland"

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

22/06/2007 – 21/05/2008 Kharkiv, Ukraine
CANDIDATE OF HISTORICAL SCIENCES V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Website https://karazin.ua/ Level in EQF EQF level 8

PROJECTS

01/09/2023 – 31/08/2027
DigiUni Project "Open Ukrainian Initiative" - O
pen Ukrainian Initiative (under the Erasmus+
program)

Creating a digital educational environment for Ukrainian universities

01/09/2024 – CURRENT
Ukrainian History Global Initiative

Ukrainian history is central to global history, to an extent that can be hard to bear and hard to acknowledge. In this
light, the connections between the present war and larger developments in global economy and politics are no
surprise.
Ukrainian History Global Initiative seeks a new empirical and conceptual understanding, using an innovative approach
across disciplines and application of new technologies to write history today. It is seeking indirectly to answer
fundamental questions such as: who are we? how was a nation possible?
Link https://uhgi.org/
01/11/2022 – 01/11/2023
ALLEA The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA)

Executor of part of the project in the field of humanities and arts

01/12/2022 – 30/11/2023
Childhood in the Jewish history of Southern Ukraine in 1919-1920: family experience of violence
during the pogroms (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Abstract. The project is devoted to the study of childhood and family relations during armed conflicts. This was the
experience of Jewish families during the pogroms of 1919-1921, which accompanied armed conflicts between the
Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Entente, Denikin's Volunteer Army, the Red Army, and chieftains
Grigoriev, Makhno and others. This confrontation became especially acute in the South of Ukraine – an agricultural
region that possessed a valuable resource for the warring parties – bread. In the South of Ukraine at that time there
were Jewish agricultural colonies, in which about 42 thousand people lived and were engaged in growing grain crops. A
large Jewish population also lived in the cities of Southern Ukraine. After a long period of anti-Jewish policy of the
Russian Empire, they began to fight for their rights on an equal footing with other ethnic groups. During this period
there are Jewish national movement (the Zionists), Jewish labor movement (the bund), Jews also joined Russian socialist
and revolutionary circles. Meanwhile, the level of violence of warring partiesagainst the civilian population was
constantly increasing, and one of its targets was the Jewish population. Anti-Jewish pogroms took place in cities and
towns, Jewish colonies and ordinary settlements. The violence was aimed at all members of Jewish families, so children
became its witnesses and victims.

PUBLICATIONS

2025
The Holodomor in Ukraine and the Asharshylyk in Kazakhstan: A Comparative Analysis of Survival
Practices

The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of the survival practices during the famines of 1932–1933 in
Ukraine and 1931–1933 in Kazakhstan. The new materials introduced into the scholarly circulation allowed considering
the faminogenic policy in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its goals. The authors’ perspective on the
cause-and-effect relationships of the famine in the two republics has identified the specific survival practices of the
Ukrainian and Kazakh peoples. The authors focused on the analysis of behavioural reactions of the population in an
extreme situation. The famine determined antisocial and destructive phenomena: child abandonment, disintegration
of family and kinship ties, cannibalism, and necrophagy. Definitely, on the one hand, this is a traumatic experience,
heavily perceived by the modern society; on the other hand, it is family and generic memory – a frame that preserves
the story of the famine. The authors believe that the Kazakh–Ukrainian experience of the collective trauma holds the
memory of forced change of lifestyle, resettlement, compulsory lab our, food catastrophe and mass deaths from
hunger. At the same time Kazakhstan became a homeland for kulak families, Ukraine welcomed bai families from the
Central Asia and Kazakhstan.

Kuzovova, N., & Zhanbossinova, A. (2025). The Holodomor in Ukraine and the Asharshylyk in Kazakhstan: A
Comparative Analysis of Survival Practices. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/
10.1177/18793665251362859

Authors: Kuzovova, N., & Zhanbossinova, A. | Journal Name: Journal of Eurasian Studies | Publisher: Asia-Pacific Research
Center, Hanyang University

2025
The Liberated Map. Directory of New Geonyms of the Kherson Community

The directory includes a list of geonyms of the Kherson community (names of streets, avenues, squares, boulevards,
highways, alleys, parks, squares, districts of the city), which gives an idea of the stages of the formation of Kherson
toponymy, and contains detailed information about the new names that appeared on the map of the Kherson city
community during the renaming in 2023–2024. For students of geographical and historical specialties, local historians,
and everyone interested in the history of Kherson.

Bily D., Homanyuk M., Dyachenko S., Kuzovova N., Makiyenko O., Yarovy V. The Liberated Map. Directory of New
Geonyms of the Kherson Community. Kherson: Publishing House of the Kherson State University, 2025. 238 p.

Authors: Bily D., Homanyuk M., Dyachenko S., Kuzovova N., Makiyenko O., Yarovy V.

2025
Childhood in the Jewish History of Southern Ukraine in 1919–1920: Family Experience of Violence
during the Pogroms
Kuzovova, N. (2025). Childhood in the Jewish History of Southern Ukraine in 1919–1920: Family Experience of Violence
during the Pogroms. Journal of Family History, 50(1), 58-77.

2024
Civil resistance in Kherson and the region during the Russian occupation in March - early April 2022

Kuzovova Natalia. Civil resistance in Kherson and the region during the Russian occupation in March and early April
2022. Southern Archive (Historical Sciences). 2024. 46. P. 23-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32999/ksu2786-5118/2024-46-3

2023
The Holodomor of 1932–1933 in the Kherson region

The monograph is devoted to the problem of studying the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine in a regional context.
The main goal of the study is to acquaint the reader with the phenomena that took place in the Kherson region, in
order to shed light on the problem of one of the most tragic pages of history using the example of regional history -
genocide of the Ukrainian people on an all-Ukrainian and global scale. The study of the regional specifics of famine, in
particular survival practices, the specifics of movements of resistance to the genocidal policy of the Soviet regime, is an
actual subject of research, which is of significant scientific interest and scientific novelty. The research was carried out
using methods of historical anthropology, an interdisciplinary approach, methods of regional and oral history. With the
help of methods of archival heuristics and source studies, new sources from the history of the Holodomor were
discovered, and a significant array of archival and published sources was analyzed. The monograph will be of interest
to both the scientific community and the general public

Kuzovova Natalia. Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Kherson region: monograph. University book, 2023. 372 p.

Publisher: Kherson State University

Link https://book.sumy.ua/golodomor-1932-1933-rokiv-na-hersonschini/

2022
The French Military Mission in Kherson in 1919 and its Consequences

The French Military Mission in Kherson in 1919 and its Consequences. Ukrainian Historical Journal, 2022, 1, 75-86.

2021
Childhood during the Holodomor 1932–1933 in Ukraine (in the South of Ukraine)

Kuzovova, N. (2022). Childhood during the Holodomor 1932–1933 in Ukraine (in the South of Ukraine). Journal of Family
History, 47(1), 59-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990211020339

2021
Soviet repressions against Jewish refugees from Poland and Czechoslovakia on the eve and at the
beginning of World War II

Kuzovova Natalia. Soviet repressions against Jewish refugees from Poland and Czechoslovakia on the eve and at the
beginning of World War II. "Intermarum: history, politics, culture". 2021. p. 105-120.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

20/11/2025 – 23/11/2025 Washington, D.C.
The 57th ASEEES Annual Convention

War with the Memory of the Holodomor in the Context of the Modern Russia-Ukraine War
The study analyzed the mechanisms of denying and distorting the memory of the Holodomor, which have intensified in
the context of the Russia–Ukraine war. In addition to traditional methods, contemporary practices now include the
destruction of memorial sites, the imposition of Soviet-style historical narratives, and the displacement of memory
bearers as a result of war and forced migration. Examining these processes demonstrates how historical memory has
become a crucial battleground in the information war and underscores its role in the ongoing struggle against the
erasure of Ukrainian identity.
Link https://aseees.org/convention/2025-convention/program/#0
14/10/2025 – 15/10/2025 Bergen
The War and Beyond: Perspectives on Ukrainian Culture and Society

Memory of the Holodomor and the Russian-Ukrainian War.
The presentation focused on urgent issues concerning the destruction of memorials to the victims of the Holodomor of
1932–1933 in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the impact of the war on the preservation of the historical memory of
the Holodomor, and the necessity of international recognition of this crime as genocide.
Link https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/ukrainett_conference_programme_with_abstracts_1.pdf

19/08/2024 – 23/08/2024 Oulu, Finland
The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History was held in Oulu, Finland from 19 to 23 August,
2024.

The disaster of the Kakhovsky Sea on June 6, 2023 and the problems of historical memory Natalia Kuzovova (Kherson
State University)
Contribution short abstract:
On June 6, 2023, Russian troops blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam. The damage done to the
environment in the 1950s was justified by the benefit to society. As a result, it was a tragedy for people and the
environment then, and its had a catastrophic consequences now
Contribution long abstract:
On June 6, 2023, Russian troops blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. A few days later, Nova
Kakhovka and Kherson were partially flooded, and the Kakhovka reservoir ceased to exist. This tragedy has a
geographical and temporal dimension. It unites the people who lost their homes during the construction of the
Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (1951) and the population of the central regions of Ukraine, who were relocated to
the arid territories of the South because of the construction of the Dnipro hydro cascade (1954). Both categories of
IDPs underwent a new traumatic experience during the hostilities resulting from the Russian invasion of 2022. For a
long time, their losses were compensated for by the perception of the social benefit of their sacrifice. However, after
the repeated destruction of their homes and the Kakhovka disaster, people who have already had previous traumatic
experiences have to rebuild their lives and find new values and meanings. The main issue of the future is not only the
liberation of the occupied territories, but also the restoration of life, so Ukrainian society is interested in the question
of whether the Kakhovka reservoir will be restored. In addition to the conclusions of economists, geographers, and
environmentalists, people's opinions are influenced by their traumatic experiences.
The methodological basis of the work is memory studies.
Link https://wceh2024.com/programme#13455

MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Project management

- Management of scientic projects of the department.
- Organization and management of scientic and publishing activities of the department
- Organization of coverage of the activities of the department in the media and social networks.

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS

Organization and management of the scientific and publishing activities of the department

Problem solving skills, team and individual work, leadership skills, critical thinking, creativity, leadership skills, ability to
work in dependently and in a team, including international cooperation and fund raising; aimed at innovative activity
and achieving results; decision-making skills; stress-resistance; adhering to the principles of academic integrity and
striving for excellence in teaching and research; openness to (self-) development and collaboration; excellent
communicative and interpersonal skills. ..