On May 28, 2021, the specialized academic council of Mariupol State University made a unanimous decision to award a graduate of the Horliv Institute of Foreign Languages to Donbas State Pedagogical University. Polina Serhiyivna Bondarenko scientific degree of Doctor of Philosophy in specialty 032 History and archaeology.

The result of hard work and self-sacrifice, determination and determination of the spirit of achievement was the preparation of a relevant, original, interdisciplinary scientific work on the topic "Women's experience of Stalinist repressions of the 1930s (based on the materials of the Ukrainian SSR)", during the defense of which the dissertation student demonstrated a high level of professional training, the formation of research skills skills

We congratulate Polina Sergiivna on the successful defense of her PhD thesis and wish her new creative ups and downs, energy and inspiration in professional growth, and personal happiness!