Valentyna Rakytianska

Valentyna Rakytianska (15 October 1948 – 23 October 2021) was a Ukrainian librarian who was the director of the huge Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library.

Valentyna Rakytianska
Born15 October 1948
Tighina (now Bender)
Died23 October 2021 (2021-10-24) (aged 73)
Kharkiv
NationalityUkrainian
OccupationLibrarian
Known forDirector of the Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library

Life

Rakytianska was born in Tighina, Moldavian SSR (now Bender, under unrecogized Transnistrian control) in 1948.[1] She graduated from the Kharkiv State Institute of Culture.[2]

She was the Director of the huge Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library from 1995. She had spent a long time in the library service before this including eleven years as deputy director of that library.[1]

She was able to modernise the library thanks to money from abroad including from the US Embassy.[2]

In 1999 Rakytyanska became an "Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine"[2] and in both 1998 and 2003 she was awarded a Diploma of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration.[1]

In 2004-2005 she expanded the local library network and 27 new book collections were made available.[3]

Rakytianska died on 23 October 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

References
  1. "Ракитянська Валентина Дмитрівна — Харківська обласна рада". www.oblrada.kharkov.ua. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  2. "ХАРКІВЩИНА: WEB-проект Харківської ОУНБ". old.region.library.kharkov.ua. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  3. "Пішла з життя Валентина Дмитрівна Ракитянська, директор ХДНБ імені В.Г.Короленка :: ХДНБ ім. В.Г.Короленка". korolenko.kharkov.com. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
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