title: Volodymyr Polovets
text: # Volodymyr Polovets
  
  Volodymyr Polovets (Ukrainian: Володимир Михайлович Половець) is a former Soviet communist official and Ukrainian historian. He is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and a professor of the Chernihiv Collegium. He claims to be of Cuman descent.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Polovets was born in an old Ruthenian (Ukrainian) village of Vepryk (Bobrovytsia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast) on 2 January 1937. In 1958 he graduated the history and philosophy faculty of the Nizhyn Gogol State University. In 1972 Polovets successfully defended his graduate thesis titled as "Development of economical cooperation of Union republics during years of the first five-year plan".
  
  