Serhii Plokhy
Ukrainian-American historian and professor
Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian-American historian and Harvard professor of Ukrainian history, and the author of Chernobyl and The Gates of Europe.
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Born 1957 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
About Serhii Plokhy
Serhii Plokhy holds the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professorship of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. He directed the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute from 2013 to 2025. His specialities are Ukrainian, East European and Cold War history. He has spent time living and teaching in Ukraine, Canada and the United States. His work has been published in English, Ukrainian and Russian. Plokhy has written more than twelve books. Chernobyl won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, and The Gates of Europe is his history of Ukraine.