Larysa Krushelnytska

Larysa Ivanivna Krushelnytska died in 2017 and is buried in the family tomb of the Krushelnytskys on field No. 23 of the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv.

On April 5, 2013, on the occasion of her 85th birthday, she was awarded the Order of Saint George.

In 2008, she was awarded the Order of Princess Olga III degree and the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In 2011, Krushelnytska was awarded the Order of Princess Olga of the II degree.

In different years Krushelnytska was awarded numerous honorary degrees for development of historical science and many years of scientific, organizational and publishing activity. The awards include those from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2003), the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1998, 2002, 2003), the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, regional and city councils.

In October 1991, Larisa Krushelnytska headed the Lviv National Science Library named after Vasyl Stefanyk. As a head, she managed to save the workplaces of the personnel in a difficult time of financial troubles, lack of funds to purchase new literature. Since that time, the volume of library funds has increased by half a million, which now amounts to about 7 million preservation units, and for the first time, repair and restoration work was partially carried out in 4 buildings. Under her leadership the library's scientists continued the work on topics related to the creation of national bibliography, the study of the problems of librarianship, bibliography, and the history of periodicals. Scientific and bibliographic research and disclosure of rare funds and collections were ongoing.

In 1974, she defended her candidate's thesis on the topic Tribes of Upper Transnistria and Western Volyn in the Early Iron Age, and in 1991, Krushelnytska defended her doctoral thesis on the topic North-East Transcarpathia in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age.

From September 1947, Krushelnytska worked at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1945 after returning to Lviv, Krushelnytska worked as a restoration artist at the Museum of Ukrainian Art and completed her secondary education through an externship. Since 1947, she was an artist-restorer at the Lviv Department of the Institute of Archaeology, studying by correspondence at the Faculty of History of Lviv State University.

Larysa Krushelnytska is a member of famous Ukrainian family. She was born in Stryi. From 1930, she lived with her relatives in Lviv. In 1934 she moved with her parents to Kharkiv, and after the extermination of the Krushelnytskyi family, she returned to Lviv in 1937. In 1943 Krushelnyska left Lviv, occupied by the Germans, to Vienna, and then to Stuttgart, where she studied at the Academy of Arts. Then she was forced to work at an aluminum plant in the Third Reich.

Larysa Ivanivna Krushelnytska (5 April 1928 - 12 November 2017) was a Ukrainian archaeologist, librarian, doctor of historical sciences (1991), and professor (1999).