Ihor Kozlovskyi

On 27 January 2016, he was captured by the militants of the so-called «Donetsk People's Republic» due to his pro-Ukrainian views, who subjected him to torture and held captive for almost two years. He was released on 27 December 2017.

In 2012, he defended a dissertation for obtaining a scientific degree of a candidate of historical sciences in specialty «religious studies».

From 2011 to 2015 he worked as an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of Donetsk National Technical University.

Since 2001 he is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Donetsk State Institute of Artificial Intelligence (later the State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence), head of the Centre for Religious Studies and International Spiritual Relations.

In 1980–1984 he studied at the graduate school of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

From 1980 to 2001 he worked in the Donetsk Regional Executive Committee, and then in the Donetsk Regional State Administration in various positions in the field of religion (officer, senior officer, chief specialist, head of the regional department of religion).

Since 1980 he has been teaching and lecturing on religious studies at universities in Ukraine and the United States.

From 1975 to 1980 he studied at the Faculty of History of Donetsk State University and received a diploma with honours in «Historian. Teacher of history and social sciences».

From 1972 to 1974 he served in the Border Troops in the Transcaucasia Border District on the border with Iran.

Ihor Kozlovskyi (Ukrainian: Ігор Козловський; born 16 February 1955) is a Ukrainian scientist, theologian, candidate of historical sciences, writer, public figure. Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Ukraine (Donetsk branch) since 2019. Senior researcher of the Department of Religious Studies of the Hryhorii Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.