Oleksandr Zaremba | |
Birth Name: | Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Zaremba |
Birth Date: | 1978 6, df=y |
Alma Mater: | Kamianets-Podilskyi National Pedagogical University |
Occupation: | Historian |
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Zaremba (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Заремба, born 1 June 1978, Kashira, Moscow Oblast)[1] is a Ukrainian historian, military reenactor, festival organizer, and civic activist.
In 1987, his family moved to Kamianets-Podilskyi.
Zaremba graduated from Faculty of History (2000) and postgraduate studies (2006) at Kamianets-Podilskyi National Pedagogical University.[2] He worked as a representative of the Ukrzovnishintour corporation in Kamianets-Podilskyi (2006–2007) and as a private entrepreneur (provided excursion services), head of the marketing, investment and development department (2011–2016), and since 2016 as the director of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Historical Museum-Reserve.[3] [4] [5]
He is the founder and head of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Military History Society, which is known for its historical reenactment festivals Terra heroica (2005–2009; since 2010, the Schola millitaria festival),[6] The Last Capital,[6] "Остання столиця"[7] [8] [9] [10] Archaeological Picnic, and Ruthenica Medievalis 2020.[11]
From 2007 to 2011, he was a member of the board of the Ratusha Festival Agency.
In 2017, the Kamianets-Podilskyi Museum-Reserve under the leadership of Oleksandr Zaremba received UAH 7.2 million in revenue.[12]
He runs the YouTube channel Haiduk Kamieniec, where he talks about historical reconstruction, military history of Ukraine, and life in the seventeenth century.[13]