Babii, Borys

Babii, Borys [Бабій, Борис; Babij], b 25 July 1914 in the village of Hurivka, Podilia gubernia, d 19 September 1993 in Kyiv. A scholar of law and full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Babii graduated from the faculty of law at Kyiv University in 1940. In 1949 he became an associate at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR; in 1966 he was made assistant director, and, in 1974, director of the institute. Babii headed delegations from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to international conferences on space research (1968), on the problem of racism (1971), and on relations between nations and international organizations (1975). His works on the theory of the state and on state law include Ukraïns'ka Radians'ka derzhava v period vidbudovy narodnoho hospodarstva (1921–1925 rr.) (The Ukrainian Soviet State in the Period of Economic Reconstruction [1921–25], Kyiv 1961); Soiuz RSR i rol' Ukraïny v ioho utvorenni (The USSR and the Role of Ukraine in Its Creation, Kyiv 1972); Pravovye issledovaniia v AN USSR, 1919–1973 (Legal Research in the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, 1919–73, Kyiv 1974). He also compiled dictionaries of the Ukrainian legal terminology (1974, 1985).

[This article was updated in 2025.]