Ihor Nikitenko

Doctor of Geology, Professor.

Department member since 2006. Professor since 2023.

Courses taught: General Geology, Geology of Building Raw Materials Deposits of Ukraine, Geological practice, History of Gemstones.

Research interests - archaeological petrography (as a subdiscipline of the archaeometry) - research of the history of stone raw materials usage by applying of mineralogical and petrographic analyses of stone artifacts.

Researched objects: foundations of the Church of the Tithes (Desiatynna) in Kyiv, the Savior's Transfiguration Cathedral in Chernihiv and other medieval buildings of Chernihiv region, carved architectural elements of the Boris and Gleb Cathedral in Chernihiv, the collection of stone idols of Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after D.I. Yavornytskyi, stone tools, wearpons and goods from the Neolithic Era to the Middle Ages from the collections of museums, universities, archaeological organizations.

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E-mail: nikitenko.i.s@nmu.one

The main publications

Nikitenko, I.S. and Yolshin, D.D. 2009. Rezultaty mineraloho-petrohrafichnoho doslidzhennia budivelnoho kaminnia z fundamentivDesiatynnoi tserkvy u Kyievi (Results of the mineralogical and petrographic research of the building stone from the foundationof Desiatynna church in Kyiv). Koshtovne ta dekoratyvne kaminnia (Precious and decorative stones), 6. 22-27. (abstract in English).

Nikitenko, I.S. 2009. Kamiana syrovyna Kryvorizhzhia doby bronzy (Stone raw materials of Kryvyi Rih region in the Bronze Age).Arkheolohia (Archaeology), 2. 75-83. (summary in English)

Nikitenko, I.S. 2012. Pro syrovynu talkovykh vyrobiv doby neolitu z Dniprovskoho Nadporizhzhia (On talc ware raw materials ofthe Neolithic Age from the Dnipro Rapids Area). Naukovyi visnyk Natsionalnoho hirnychoho universytetu (Scientific bulletin ofthe National mining university), 5. 12-17. (summary in English).

Nikitenko, I.S. and Kutsevol, M.L. 2012. Doslidzhennia syrovyny kamianykh vyrobiv periodu neolitu-bronzy z kolektsii Dnipropetrovskohonatsionalnoho istorychnoho muzeiu im. D.I. Yavornytskoho (The research of stone goods of the Neolithic-BronzeAge from the collection of Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after D.I. Yavornytskyi). Zbirnyk naukovykh prats Natsionalnoho Hirnychoho Universytetu (Collected articles of the National Mining University), 38. 11-19. (abstract in English).

Nikitenko, I.S. and Chernenko, O.D. 2013. Rezultaty petrohrafichnoho doslidzhennia fundamentiv Spaso-Preobrazhenskohosoboru v m. Chernihovi (Results of the petrographic research of the Savior's Transfiguration Cathedral in Chernihiv foundation).Heoloh Ukrainy (Ukrainian Geologist), 2. 147-154. (abstract in English).

Nikitenko, I.S., Kutsevol, M.L. and Kovalenko, E.D. 2013. Rezultaty petrohrafichnoho doslidzhennia kolektsii starodavnikh zhorenz fondiv Dnipropetrovskoho natsionalnoho istorychnoho muzeiu im. D.I. Yavornytskoho (Results of the petrographic researchof the ancient millstones collection from the funds of Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after D.I. Yavornytskyi). Zbirnyk naukovykh prats Natsionalnoho hirnychoho universytetu (Collected articles of the National Mining University), 41.11-18. (abstract in English).

Nikitenko, I.S. and Lysenko, S.D. 2014. Rezultaty mineralogo-petrograficheskogo analiza izdeliy iz kamnya mogilnika Malopolovetskoye-3 i poseleniya Malopolovetskoye-2A (Kiyevskaya oblast) (Results of the mineralogical and petrographic analysis of stonegoods from the burial ground Malopolovetskoye-3 and the settlement Malopolovetskoye-2A (Kyiv region). Stratum plus, 2.333-345. (abstract in English). [Download]

Nikitenko, Ihor. 2014. How rocks were used: an archaeopetrographic history of the Middle Dnipro Area, Ukraine. European Geologist, 38, 55-59. [Download]

Nikitenko, I.S. and Kutsevol, M.L. 2014. Rezultaty mineraloho-petrohrafichnoho doslidzhennia kolektsii skifskoi kamianoi plastyky z Dnipropetrovskoho natsionalnoho istorychnoho muzeiu im. D.I. Yavornytskoho (Rezults of the mineralogical and petrographic research of the Scythian stone plastic art collection fromDnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after D.I. Yavornytskyi). Visnyk Dnipropetrovskoho universytetu (Scientific bulletin of Dnipropetrovsk university). Series: Geology, Geography. Vol. 22, Issue 16, No. 3/2, 34-42.

Nikitenko, I.S. and Chernenko, O.D. 2014. Do pytannia pro vydilennia Novhorod-Siverskoho girnychodobuvnoho centru chasiv Kyivskoi Rusi (On the issue of allocation of the Novhorod-Siverskyi mining district of the times of Kyiv Rus).Zbirnyk naukovykh prats Natsionalnoho hirnychoho universytetu (Collected articles of the National Mining University), 45.12-21. (abstract in English).

Nikitenko I.S. and Kutsevol M.L. 2016. On raw materials of Neolithic stone hoes from the Dnieper rapids area. Naukovyi Visnyk Natsionalnoho Hirnychoho Universytetu, 4, pp. 5 – 12. [http://nvngu.in.ua/index.php/en/component/jdownloads/finish/62-04/8543-04-2016-nikitenko/0]

Nikitenko, I. and Kutsevol, M. 2018. The Material Provenance of Medieval Stone Babas from the Collection of the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum. Archaeometry. Vol. 60, Issue 6. pp. 1135 – 1152.[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/arcm.12382]

Nikitenko, I.S., Starik, O.V., Kutsevol, M.L. and Shevchenko, S.V., 2018. Petrographic research on stone tools from the megalithic cult site of Tokivske-1, Naukovyi Visnyk Natsionalnoho Hirnychoho Universytetu, 4, pp. 5 – 12. DOI: 10.29202/nvngu/2018-4/1

Nikitenko, I. S., Starik, O. V. Marchenko, V. A. 2019. Results of petrographic research of new finds from the archaeological monument Tokivske-1 // Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology. Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 519–527. doi.org/10.15421/111948

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