"Мій дід, батько, його брати і діти - вони були  справжні,- бо нас у родині вчили ніколи не думати про багатство - та багатими ми ніколи й не були, - і навіть не про славу, а тільки про славу України.” Марія Вороная.

Відоме всьому світу про маловідомого в Україні математика

Вороний Георгій Феодосійович

(1868-1908)

Георгій Феодосійович Вороний – визначний український вчений, наукові дослідження якого залишили глибокий слід в сучасній математиці.

Г.Ф. Вороний народився 16(28) квітня 1868р. в селі Журавка кол. Полтавської губ. (нині Варвинський р-н Чернігівської обл.) в родині відомого своєю просвітницькою діяльністю професора Феодосія Вороного. Закінчив Прилуцьку гімназію (1885), Петербурзький університет (1889), був залишений при університеті для підготовки до професорського звання. Після захисту магістерської дисертації (1894) призначений професором Варшавського університету, 1897р. захистив докторську дисертацію. З 1898р. також декан механічного факультету Варшавського політехнічного інституту. 1907р. обраний членом-кореспондентом Петербурзької АН.

Georgy Voronoi was born on April 16th (28th), 1868, in the small town of Zhuravka, Pyriatyn county Poltava gubernia.[We use here the well-known transliteration: Voronoi, in Ukrainian this name is pronounced: Heorhii Voronyi. Two birthday dates are used because there was accepted the Julian calendar ("old style") in Russia in the XIX century. Zhuravka is mentioned for the first time in chronicles in 1618. At the Cossack times, from 1654 till 1782, a cossack squadron (it was called: sotnia) belonging to the Pryluky regiment was settled here, so it had its military office, two wooden churches with Cossack schools. According to the nowadays administrative division the Zhuravka village belongs to Varva district of Chernihiv region}. According to the family legend, the Voronyis acquired their family name from a Cossack captain (in Ukrainian: "esaul”), a defender of the Voronivka Fortress which was situated to the north of Zhuravka near Ichnya.]

A picturesque hill over the Udai river was bought by Georgy'es grandfather Yakiv Voronyi. Yakiv began his activity as a chumak [Ukrainian ox--cart driver, salt merchant] and, earning a sufficient amount of money, he bought this patch of land and settled here with his family.

His son (and Georgy's father) Feodosii (1837-1910) ─ was a filologist, he graduated from Kyiv University and worked as a professor of Russian literature at Nizhyn Lycee (1864-1872) and then he was a director of Kyshyniv, Berdyansk, and Pryluky gymnasia. Feodosii was a person of progressive convictions, he had a talent and a calling to enlighten the youth. Even in his student years Feodosii was one of the initiators of Sunday free-schools for working youth and he taught history in the Kyiv-Podil school (1859-1861). His initiative in organizing a Sunday school was welcomed by Taras Shevchenko, who visited this school and donated it 50 copies of his "Kobzar". Later on, describing events of national importance at Kyiv University in the late 1850s and early 1860s, Olena Pchilka marked the praiseworthy deeds of the student Feodosii Voronyi in one of her essays. [Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) is a great Ukrainian poet and artist, all Ukrainians esteem him to be their prophet, "Kobzar" is the book of poetry by T.Shevchenko.  Olena Pchilka (1849-1930) is a well-known writer, she was a mother of a famous Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka.] More...