Volodymyr Anatoliyovych Bugrov is the former rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
He was born on November 10, 1967, in Buchach, Ternopil Oblast, into a family of teachers. His parents worked in schools in Buchach; his father was a history teacher, and his mother taught geography.
In 1984, he graduated from high school in Buchach with a gold medal.
In 1991, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, with a break for service in the Soviet Army (1986–1988—Military Unit 55654 of the Main Directorate of Special Construction of the USSR Ministry of Defense).
From 1991 to 1995, he studied in the graduate program at the Faculty of Philosophy of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and a year later defended his master’s thesis.
Scientific and pedagogical work.
Bugrov spent his entire career as a teacher and researcher at his alma mater, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
From November 1995 to September 1998, he was an assistant at the Department of Philosophy and Methodology of Science.
From October 1998—associate professor at the Department of History of Philosophy.
From November 1998 to January 2009, he served as the associate dean for research at the Faculty of Philosophy.
Since February 2013 – Professor at the Department of History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy.
From January 2009 to April 2021 – Vice Rector for Research and Teaching at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Rectorate.
In November 2020, he ran for the position of rector, advanced to the second round, but received 47.59% of the vote, falling short of the 50% threshold required for election.
He succeeded in March 2021, when he received 74.31% of the vote in the second round of the runoff election.
An amendment to Ukraine’s Law “On Higher Education” helped secure Bugrov’s victory. It declared the winner of the second round to be the candidate who received 50%+ of the votes not from those eligible to vote (as calculated in November–December 2020), but from those who actually voted (as calculated in March 2021).
Volodymyr Bugrov’s tenure as rector was not without scandals. In 2024, KNU was accused of purchasing hack for cadet meals at inflated prices. Bugrov responded that it was a technical error—instead of 123 hryvnias, the price of 333 hryvnias was entered into the corresponding section of the Excel spreadsheet, but no actual purchase was made at that price.
After the start of full-scale war, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv banned the use of Russian sources (except for historical ones) and shut down programs for studying Russian, Belarusian, and Farsi.
According to his declarations, in 2023, Bugrov purchased a 75-square-meter apartment in Kyiv for 3.5 million hryvnias. And in 2025, he purchased a non-residential room, possibly a storage room, with an area of 4.6 square meters, also in Kyiv, for 157,000 hryvnias.
He was dismissed from his position as rector in April 2026.
Family.
Bugrov is married. His wife is a philosophy professor working in her field. Their son, Myroslav (born in 1995), is a graduate student in the Philosophy Department at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
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