 PhD thesis - "Regulatory Aspects of Social Functioning of the Language” (1974).Worked as a Russian language and literature teacher, senior librarian at the University Scientific Library, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Director of the Odessa State University Library.According to the memoirs of one of the founders of the Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund, a distinguished lawyer of Ukraine Alexander Muchnik, on November 26, 1987 T. A. Tarasenko was elected the first chairman of the Board of one of the first in the USSR non-governmental charitable organization.