Lidiia Frantsivna Dunayevska (28 June 1948 - 16 May 2006) was a Ukrainian folklorist, teacher, literary critic, poet, doctor of philological sciences, professor, founder and first head of the Department of Folklore Studies of the Institute of Philology at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. Early life and education Lidiia Dunayevska (maiden name - Govoretska) was born in 1948 in the village of Vorobiivka, Vinnytsia region, in a family of teachers. Her parents, Frantz Martynovych and Sofiia Yakivna Govorecki, were supporters of education and high spiritual culture. While studying in high school, Dunayevska began to write poems, and published them in regional and Kyiv newspapers. After graduating from high school, she entered the philological faculty of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University at the department of Ukrainian language and literature as a winner of the Republican Olympiad in Ukrainian language and literature in 1966. In 1971, Dunayevska graduated from the university with honors. Since then, she has worked at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University as a senior laboratory assistant, later an assistant and associate professor of the Department of the History of Ukrainian Literature. In 1982, Dunayevska defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic Poetics of the Ukrainian Folk Tale. Career In 1992, Dunayevska founded and headed the Department of Folklore Studies of the Faculty of Philology (since 2001, the Institute of Philology) of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, initiating the professional training of folklorists in Ukraine. In 1998, Dunayevska defended her doctoral dissertation Ukrainian folk prose (legend and fairy tale). The evolution of epic traditions, for which she received the scientific degree of doctor of philological sciences in 1999, and the academic title of professor of the Department of Folklore in 2001. From 1992 until 2006, Dunayevska worked as the head of the Department of Folklore Studies. She was a deputy head of the Specialized Academic Council for the Defense of Doctoral Dissertations of the Institute of Philology. Dunayevska was a member of the expert council of the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, the expert council of the State Academic Council under the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Writers' Union of Ukraine, the editorial boards of the “Veselka” ("Rainbow") publishing house, magazine "Kyivska Starovyna," and other publications. Lidiia Dunayevska died on 16 May 2006. She was buried in Kyiv at the Lisove Cemetery. Pedagogical activity The main pedagogical principle of Dunayevska was the preservation and formation and