Leonid Bodnarchuk

Leonid Bodnarchuk (1938 to 2015) was a Ukrainian scientist and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine from 1999. He graduated from the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine in 1961, defended his dissertation in 1974 and earned the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences in 1975. He worked at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology from 1974 to 1989, was director of the Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping, the Ukrainian Research Institute of Apiculture, from 1989 to 2012, and became a professor in 1997 at his alma mater. He wrote 10 monographs and more than 350 articles, including works on apitherapy, and received the Order of Merit three times and the title Honored Man of Agriculture of Ukraine in 1998.