Consistent worker in the field of economic practice, theory and history of Ukrainian cooperation (On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Myroslav Aliman)

Анотація

Abstract. Introduction. In September 2020, the Ukrainian cooperator, scientist-economist and historian Myroslav Vasyliovych Aliman celebrated his 80th birthday. The anniversary gives an occasion to analyze the life path and scientific achievements of the figure.

Purpose of the article – to analyze the achievements of organizational, economic and scientific work of Myroslav Vasyliovych Aliman.

Results. Myroslav Aliman was born in 1940 and grew up in a peasant family. After graduating with a degree in economics, he quickly made a career in the economic structures of the Ukrainian Union of Consumer Societies. He worked as a warehouse manager, deputy director of the wholesale base of the Poltava Union of Consumer Cooperatives. For ten years he headed the Poltava regional center of scientific organization of labor of cooperative institutions. In this position, Aliman improved the work of consumer cooperation in Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Ternopil, Cherkasy, Kharkiv regions and other regions of Ukraine.

In 1977, M. V. Aliman defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences (Ph.D.), which is devoted to the problems of organization of cooperative trade. Since 1982, Aliman has worked at Poltava University of Economics and Trade as a senior lecturer, associate professor, head of the department, vice-rector and honorary professor of the university. In the transition to a market economy, M. V. Aliman was involved in the development of cooperative legislation of Ukraine, plans for the development of consumer cooperation. In his scientific works he analyzed the state of adaptation of cooperative organizations to new economic conditions.

The history of the cooperative movement also became the object of M. V. Aliman’s research. Develops problems of the history of cultural and educational work of the cooperative, regional aspects of the development of the cooperative, the activities of leading cooperative figures. He created a thorough work dedicated to a prominent representative of public opinion in the nineteenth century and cooperator Nikolai Ballin. M. V. Aliman dedicated the five-volume edition to the history of the activity of the Ukrainian cooperative and political figure, the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People’s Republic Borys Martos. In total, Aliman is the author of more than 400 published scientific works.

M. V. Aliman is the initiator of many public projects for the development of cooperation. Among his initiatives is the creation of the Museum of History of Poltava University of Economics and Trade, which he has headed since 2004.

Originality. For the first time a historiographical review of M. V. Aliman’s scientific works on history is presented.

Conclusion. M. V. Aliman’s scientific heritage is a cognitive resource and methodological basis of practical cooperative work. The experience of organizing cooperative trade and the activities of dozens of cooperative figures is reflected in the scientific works of the figure.