Anatoly Ivchenko was born on March 8, 1953 in Kharkiv. In 1979 graduated from Kharkiv Gorky State University (Philological department). After graduation worked as a researcher in Kharkiv Gorky State University (1884–1990), a senior lecturer at Ukrainian Linguistics Department of Kharkiv State Teachers Training University (1990–1991), a docent (an associate professor) at Ukrainian and Slavonic Linguistics Deparetment of Kharkiv State University of Agricultural Technology (1991–1996), the Head of Ukrainian Studies Department of Kharkiv Institute of Humanities (1996–1999), a Full Professor at Ukrainian Linguistics Department of Maria Sklodowska-Curie University in Lublin, Poland (1999–2000), a docent ( an associate professor) at Literature Department of Kharkiv State Academy of Culture (1999–2001), the Head of Linguistics Department at Lviv Institute of Fire Safety (2001–2004), a docent at Applied Linguistics Department of L'viv Stavropigion University. From January 2005 works as a TC STTS Secretary.

 In 1987 in Leningrad, Russia, defended Candidate’s dissertation “Idiographic and distributional description of Upper Serbian language phraseology”. A docent title was obtained in 1994. Now he is working at Doctor’s thesis “Ukrainian Vernacular Phraseology: Onomasiology, Areals, Etymology”.

 Author of more than 100 scientific works on Slavonic phraseology, lexicography and bibliography. Among them – 16 books and 8 dictionaries of different types (explanatory, translation, phraseology, orthography etc.), published in Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia. Member of Slavonic Phraseology Board, a member of  Proceedings “The Problems of Ukrainian Terminology” and “Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society Proceedings” editorial boards, Chairman of the board of Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society (1991–1999), a member of the Bureau of International Association of Ukrainian Scholars (1993–1999).

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