Petro Petrovych Tolochko ( Ukrainian: Петро́ Петро́вич Толо́чко; 21 February 1938) is a Soviet and Ukrainian historian, archaeologist, and political activist. [1] He is one of the leading specialists in history of the Kievan Rus (Old Rus) and one of leading researchers of the NASU Institute of Archaeology of Ukraine.
Tolochko is a doctor of historical sciences (1981), professor (1982), full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1990), foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011, on 8 March 2022 announced withdrawal from its membership [2]) and member of the World Russian People's Council. [3]