Yanush Panchenko

Yanush Panchenko
Януш Панченко
Born (1991-06-26) 26 June 1991
Kherson, Ukraine
CitizenshipUkraine
EducationNational Aviation University
Kherson State University
Known forResearch on Ukrainian Roma
Scientific career
FieldsCultural anthropology, history
Vitalii Andreiev

Yanush Panchenko (Ukrainian: Януш Панченко; born 26 June 1991 in Kherson; also published as Janush Panchenko) is a Ukrainian researcher of Romani origin[1] and a specialist in Romani culture, history and language.[2][3]

He is a research associate at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.[4] He has served as an expert on the expert councils of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation[5] and as a member of the advisory body of the EVZ Foundation.[6]

A civic activist, Panchenko is the founder of the Romani youth centre Romano Than and formerly headed the working group on the creation of a writing system for the Romani language in Ukraine under the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience.[7][8]

Biography

Yanush Panchenko was born on 26 June 1991 in Kherson into a traditional Vlaxurya–Servurya Romani family that had become sedentary in the first generation. The Panchenko family led a nomadic way of life and travelled throughout southern Ukraine, but after the 1956 decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union "On involving in labour Gypsies engaged in vagrancy", which prohibited a nomadic way of life for Roma, Yanush's grandfather settled in the village of Mala Oleksandrivka and later moved to Kakhovka.[9]

In 2016 Yanush Panchenko graduated from the National Aviation University, after which he obtained a master's degree[10] from Kherson State University. In 2018 he became a postgraduate student at Zaporizhzhia National University in speciality 032 – History and Archaeology (supervisor: Professor Vitalii Andreiev, Doctor of Historical Sciences). He is also an alumnus of the scholarship programme of the Roma Education Fund.[11]

In 2017 Panchenko founded and headed the Romani youth organisation "Society of Gypsies of the Southern Region – Romano Than",[12] whose activities are aimed at increasing the accessibility and improving the quality of education among Romani teenagers of Kherson Oblast. In 2021, together with like-minded colleagues, he began creating a Romani youth centre of the same name, Romano Than. The idea was supported by the International Renaissance Foundation, and it was ultimately included in the list of the Foundation's 60 best initiatives of 2021.[13] Romano Than became the first Romani youth centre in Ukraine and in the post-Soviet space.[14][15] However, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the occupation of Kherson Oblast, the Romani youth centre was broken into and taken over by Russian forces.[16][17] In 2025 he became a co-founder of two new structures: the Ukrainian Centre for Romani Studies at Kherson State University[18] and the German non-governmental organisation Ukrainian Roma Advocacy Alliance (AURA).[19]

Yanush Panchenko is one of the founders of literature in the Vlaxicko dialect. He writes poetry and translates Ukrainian, Russian and world poetry into the Vlaxicko dialect, for which he developed a codification based on the Cyrillic script. He was awarded first and second places at the Bronisława Wajs International Competition of Romani Poetry and Literary Translation in 2019 and 2020.[20] In 2023, in Montreal, he received the Ronald Lee Award for his contribution to the development and preservation of the Romani language.[21][22] He also took part in the project "Dasha Reads" by Daria Tregubova, in which he presented his own poem "1944" in Romani.[23] He has worked as a social pedagogue at School No. 6 in Kakhovka,[24] as a broadcaster at Sveriges Radio,[25] and as a monitor for the OSCE.

Main works

Books

  • Panchenko, Ya. Словарь влахыцкого диалекта цыганского языка [Dictionary of the Vlaxicko dialect of the Romani language] (ed. Mikhail Oslon). In preparation.

Translations

  • Panchenko, Ya. (2025). Мэрни англуйи Библия андэ картинкэ [translation into the Vlaxicko dialect of the Romani language]. By K. N. Taylor, My First Bible in Pictures (original work published 2005). Sweden: International Bible Society (IBS) Europe. 264 pp.

Articles

Textbooks

  • Panchenko, Ya.; Makhotina, I.; Dorokhmanov, N. Адиной тай пистрой рроманэс. Dnipro: Seredniak T. K. 36 pp.
  • Dorokhmanov, N.; Panchenko, Ya.; Makhotina, I. Чити ай скрии рроманес. Dnipro: Seredniak T. K. 34 pp.

Book chapters

  • Zharonkin, Valentin; Panchenko, Janush; Homanyuk, Mykola (2024). "Ukrainian Roma: Facing the challenges of the Russian-Ukrainian war and displacement". In Muratova, E.; Zasanska, N. (eds.). Minorities at War: Cultural Identity and Resilience in Ukraine. Chapter 13, pp. 262–287. London: Routledge.
  • Chernykh, A.; Kozhanov, K.; Tsvetkov, G.; Makhotina, I.; Panchenko, Ya. (2018). "Календарные праздники и обряды; Одежда" [Calendar festivals and rites; Clothing]. In Demeter, N.; Chernykh, A. (eds.). Цыгане [The Roma]. Series "Peoples and Cultures", chapters 6 and 9, pp. 218–233, 251–273, 336–360. Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

References

  1. ↑ ""У нас сформировалось понятие Родины": как ромы защищают будущее Украины" ["We have developed a concept of homeland": how the Roma defend Ukraine's future] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program". Indiana University. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "І жартома, і всерйоз: байки та дослідження Януша Панченка" [Both in jest and in earnest: the tales and research of Yanush Panchenko] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 22 February 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "Staff of the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences". Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 25 April 2024. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  5. ↑ "Експертні ради Українського культурного фонду" [Expert councils of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation] (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Консультативный орган 2024" [Advisory body 2024] (in Russian). Stiftung EVZ. Archived from the original on 8 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  7. ↑ "Research Fellows Summer Term 2026". European University Viadrina. Retrieved 14 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "ERIACNET4EU Capacity-Building Trainings: The Romani Language – History, Dialects, Practice". European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. 18 August 2026. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
  9. ↑ Bida, Olesia (12 March 2018). "Зняти завісу: як живуть молоді роми в Україні" [Lifting the curtain: how young Roma live in Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Radio Svoboda. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "Наука й активізм: етносоціологічні дослідження ромської громади Херсонщини" [Scholarship and activism: ethnosociological research on the Roma community of the Kherson region] (in Ukrainian). International Renaissance Foundation. 10 August 2018. Archived from the original on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  11. ↑ "У своєму місті я був першим ромом, який вступив до вишу" [In my town I was the first Rom to enter university] (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 August 2026.
  12. ↑ Baturin, Oleh (3 July 2020). "Могили ромів потерпають від вандалів на Херсонщині" [Romani graves suffer from vandals in the Kherson region] (in Ukrainian). Novyi Den. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  13. ↑ "60 найкращих ініціатив Фонду у 2021 році" [The 60 best initiatives of the Foundation in 2021] (in Ukrainian). International Renaissance Foundation. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  14. ↑ "Перший ромський молодіжний центр в Україні відкриють у Каховці" [Ukraine's first Romani youth centre to open in Kakhovka] (in Ukrainian). Roma of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  15. ↑ "Місце зустрічі: ромський молодіжний центр у Каховці" [Meeting place: the Romani youth centre in Kakhovka] (in Ukrainian). OSCE. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  16. ↑ "Три місяці життя під окупацією. Що розповідає ромський громадський діяч про життя в окупованому Херсоні" [Three months of life under occupation: what a Romani civic activist says about life in occupied Kherson] (in Ukrainian). Roma of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  17. ↑ "Life of a Roma activist under occupation". ARCA. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  18. ↑ "У ХДУ створили Український центр ромських студій" [The Ukrainian Centre for Romani Studies established at Kherson State University] (in Ukrainian). Kherson State University. Archived from the original on 1 April 2025. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  19. ↑ "Ukrainische Roma im Exil wollen sich vernetzen" [Ukrainian Roma in exile seek to build networks]. Neues Deutschland (in German). Archived from the original on 17 May 2025. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  20. ↑ "Rezultate ediția a III-a a concursului Internațional de creație literară și traduceri «Bronisława Wajs»" [Results of the third edition of the "Bronisława Wajs" international competition of literary creation and translation] (in Romanian). 16 June 2020. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  21. ↑ "Експерт з Каховки отримав нагороду в Канаді" [An expert from Kakhovka receives an award in Canada] (in Ukrainian). Nova Kakhovka.City. Archived from the original on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  22. ↑ "Presenters". Recentring the Humanities: Ukraine and the World – International Symposium, 28–30 October 2026, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
  23. ↑ Януш Панченко «1944» [Yanush Panchenko "1944"] (in Vlax Romani) – via YouTube.
  24. ↑ Chykunova, Kseniia (21 August 2020). "«Я ж не дурак!» Що заважає ромам отримувати середню освіту в Україні та як це можна змінити" ["I'm not stupid!" What prevents Roma from obtaining secondary education in Ukraine and how it can be changed] (in Ukrainian). Reporters. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  25. ↑ "Kurkeske paramichia: Shukar paramichia anda Ukraina" [Sunday stories: good stories from Ukraine] (in Vlax Romani). Sveriges Radio. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2023.

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