Tamara Tarasenko

Tamara Tarasenko (Russian: Тамара Андреевна Тарасенко; Ukrainian: Тамара Андріївна Тарасенко; born May 24, 1939, Moscow, Soviet Union — died May 23, 1992, Odessa, Ukraine) professor, philosopher, the first Chairman of the Board of Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund (1987).

Graduated with honors from the philological faculty of the Odessa State I. I. Mechnikov University (OSU) in 1961. PhD thesis - "Regulatory Aspects of Social Functioning of the Language” (1974).

Worked as a Russian language and literature teacher, senior librarian at the University Scientific Library, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Director of the Odessa State University Library.

According to the memoirs of one of the founders of the Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund, a distinguished lawyer of Ukraine Alexander Muchnik, on November 26, 1987 T. A. Tarasenko was elected the first chairman of the Board of one of the first in the USSR non-governmental charitable organization. Occupying the post of the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Odessa State University, T.A. Tarasenko played an important role in the official legalization of the charitable organization under the difficult conditions of the Soviet bureaucracy. As the Head of the Foundation she was personally involved in the direct provision of social assistance to people in need. T.A.Tarasenko laid the tradition in charity management system of moral, dedicated and selfless service to others.

According to numerous memoirs of her colleagues, T.A. Tarasenko was one of the first in the Soviet Union to develop and begin delivering lectures on the History of Russian 20th century philosophy. Thanks to her, students of the university first got to know the works of Berdyaev, Bulgakov, Ilyin, Lossky, Rozanov, Solovyov, Fedorov, Florensky, Florovsky, Frank, Shestov et al. at that time kept in special depositories. In her lectures and seminars T. A. Tarasenko practiced the method of the famous Soviet philosopher Genrikh S. Batishchev (1932-1990) - a "deep dialogue", a dialogue that involves not only mind but also conscience, a moral component of the personality of her students.

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