Shovheniv, Ivan [Шовгенів, Іван; Šovheniv], b 25 September 1874 in Kamianka, Kupianka county, Kharkiv gubernia, d 13 April 1943 in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Hydraulic engineer; father of Olena Teliha. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Institute of Communications (1899) and directed engineering projects on the Volga River, Oka River, and Moskva River. He then studied in Germany (1910–12), was director of an irrigation project in Turkestan, taught at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, and was deputy director of the melioration department of the Imperial Russian Ministry of Agriculture. He returned to Ukraine in 1918 and became director of the Hetman government’s Department of Water Communications. He worked in the melioration section of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and was a professor at the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute (1918–20). He emigrated in 1920 and helped found the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady, Bohemia (1922–8), of which he was the first rector (1922–6). From 1929 he worked in Warsaw for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Warsaw and headed the Ukrainian Black Sea Institute (1941–2). He wrote numerous articles and larger works, including ones on water management in Ukraine (1923) and in the Dnipro River Basin (1936), the hydraulics of underground water (1929), floods in Ukraine (1936), Ukraine’s energy resources (1940) and water management (1941), and the Black Sea (1941). He also wrote textbooks on plane analytic geometry (1923), hydraulics (2 vols, 1923, 1927), hydrology (1924), and hydraulic engineering (1924, 1925).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]