Dyminsky, Roman

Dyminsky, Roman [Димінський, Роман; Dymins'kyj], b 20 January 1898 in Stanyslaviv, Galicia, d 29 September 1949 in Regensburg, West Germany. Economist, full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. From 1927 Dyminsky taught at the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady. In 1934 he became a docent at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague and a research associate of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin. In 1945 he was appointed professor at the Ukrainian Technical and Husbandry Institute and at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. Dyminsky wrote the outline of Ukraine’s economy in Handbuch der Ukraine (1942), the chapter on industrial geography in Volodymyr Kubiiovych’s Heohrafiia Ukraïny (A Geography of Ukraine, 1943), and Velykoprostirne hospodarstvo Evropy (The Large-Area Economy of Europe, 1942).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]