Nikolai Ovcharenko

"Nikolai Ovcharenko is a Ukrainian military historian who researches the military traditions and the strategy and tactics employed by the defenders of Ukraine in various epochs. He was born on 23 July 1955 in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. Ovcharenko is a graduate of Ukraine’s Military Engineer Academy. Graduating as a lieutenant, he rose to the rank of colonel, serving primarily in the airborne forces. He is a veteran of the fighting in Afghanistan. Ovcharenko is now employed by Odessa’s Military Historical Museum of the Operational Command. He is married and has three children.

Ovcharenko’s works are characterized by deep analysis and fresh assessments of historical events and personalities drawn from Ukraine’s rich military history, from the time of the Scythians and the Zaporozh’e Cossacks to the Second World War and locals wars of the XX Century. The author pays particular attention to analyzing non-symmetrical warfare and the creative use of local conditions and resources by multi-service force grouping to achieve superiority over the enemy. In 2010-2015, the author’s historical research generated lively interest at many international, national and regional academic military history conferences. In 2014, the Odessa publisher Atlant published Ovcharenko’s comprehensive collection of historical research articles entitled Military art and traditions of the defenders of Odessa.

Presently the author is researching the causes and dynamics of the development of armed conflicts and ways to resolve them in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, in accordance with the changes in global geopolitical processes and the status of a state’s defensive capabilities."