Andriy Grechylo


Andrii Grechylo, is a Ukrainian historian, heraldist and vexillologist. During his career he has published several books and designed hundreds of coats of arms, flags, banners and seals for over 1000 different municipalities and institutions.

Biography

Andrii Grechylo was born on November 19, 1963, in Lviv, Ukraine. He studied architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic. Since 1990, he was a research worker of the Hrushevskyi Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
Grechylo received his PhD in historical science in 1996 and defended a dissertation titled "Ukrainian Municipal Heraldry: Tendencies of Evolution". In 2012, he defended a dissertation titled "Ukrainian Territorial Heraldry" and he was awarded the degree of Doctor of History.
In 1990, he has founded the Ukrainske Heraldychne Tovarystvo – since 1995 a member of FIAV and CIGH.
Andrii Grechylo is an academician of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique and a president of UHT.
Since 1993, he is an editor of the bulletin Znak. He also is an editor of the yearly journal Genealogichni zapysky. Grechylo is co-author of the Small State Coat of Arms of Ukraine. He has also designed flags and arms for provinces, districts, cities, towns, villages, universities, organisations, ecclesiastical provinces and for individuals. Although he is known mainly for his expertise in heraldry and vexillology.
In 1992—2011 and since 2015, Andrii Grechylo was a member of the Presidential Commission of the State Awards and Heraldry. In 2009, he was honoured with the Order of Merit 3rd Class.
In 2013, Andrii Grechylo was made by FIAV a Fellow of the Federation.
Since 2015 he is a Full Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Publications

  • Eagle and Lion in the heraldry of the Galician-Volhynian State . In: L`aigle et le lion dans le blason medieval et moderne: Actes du IXe colloque international d`heraldique, Cracovie, 4-8 septembre 1995. P. 123–126. Warszawa, 1997.
  • , Kyiv, Lviv, 1998
  • Herby mist Ukrayiny , Kyiv, 2001
  • Herby ta prapory mist i sil Rivnenskoyi oblasti, Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne, 2002
  • Contemporary flags of the Ukrainian regions: Old traditions and new designs. In: Proceedings of the XX International Congress of Vexillology, Stockholm, 27 July to 1 August 2003 /ed. by J. O. Engene. P. 233–254. Bergen: Nordic Flag Society, 2004.
  • Herby ta prapory mist i sil Ukrayiny, vol. 1. Lviv, 2004 .
  • New symbols for an old Swedish village in the Ukrainian steppes. In: Nordiska Flaggenkontakt, no 46, p. 35-37. Laksevag, 2008.
  • Pechatky mista Lvova XIV-ХVІІI st., Lviv, 2010
  • Ukrayinska terytorialna heraldyka, Lviv, 2010
  • Bibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk: Hrushevskyi M., Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy, Lviv, 2015 .
  • Nash herb: Ukrayinski symvoly vid knyazhykh chasiv do syohodennya, Kyiv, 2018. .
  • Herby ta prapory mist i sil Ukrayiny, vol. 2. Lviv, 2020 .

    Awards

  • The 3rd Class of the Order of Merit.
  • In 2013 he was made by FIAV a Fellow of the Federation.