Doctor of History, Director of the Lviv branch of the Hrushevskyi Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Historiography, and head of the historical-philosophical division of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.
From 1949 to 1956 he was imprisoned for allegedly anti-soviet activities (Stalinist repressions) and for his connections with Ukrainian dissidents_ He continued to be persecuted from the 1960's to the 1980's. Most of his works were published abroad. These are works on the history of Ukrainian-Armenian and Ukrainian-Jewish relations, conceptual articles on Ukrainian history, bibliography and cultural studies of the 20th Century. (He is the author of Lviv Armenian-Kipchak Documents of the 17th and 18th Centuries; Armenian Colonies in Ukraine in Literary Sources of the 15th to 19th Centuries; Ukraine Yesterday and Today; Ukraine and Armenia).
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