Olena Zhurukhina

Olena Zhurukhina, PhD

Scholarship holder
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About

Born in Kiev (Ukraine). 1998–2003 she studied history, archaeology and museology at the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev. 2003–2007 Postgraduate studies and assistant at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Defence of the dissertation on »The pearls of the middle Dnieper region of the 10th–13th centuries«. 2007–2019 Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Archaeology Kiev. Since 2014 Head of the Historical and Archaeological Research Department of the Museum of History of Desiatynna Church (Kiev, Ukraine).

Since November 2022, she has been a guest researcher in the GWZO Special Scholarship Programme for Refugee Scientists. Since May 2023 she has been working as a researcher at the GWZO. From January to February 2024 she was funded by the GWZO Special Scholarship Programme for Refugee Scientists and since March 2024 until February 2025 she is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for Threatened and Refugee Researchers.

Work focus

  • Archaeology and history of Early Rus’
  • Kyiv medieval glass finds
  • Glassmaking workshops
  • Technology of glassware prodaction
  • Gemstone adornments

 

memberships

  • Member of General Assembly of NGO Detector Media

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