Ihor Kholoshyn, Associate Professor, Department of Economic and Social Geography and Teaching Methods, Kryvyi Rih State Pedadogical University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

Ihor Kholoshyn, born in 1959, received a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences degree (Dr. phil.) from the Moscow Geological-Exploration Institute. Since 1984, he has been working in the field of geoinformation technologies the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute and since 2009 - at the Kryvyi Rih State Pedadogical University, where he is head of department. His research interests include ttheoretical and methodological principles of application of geoinformation technologies for the preparation of future teachers of geography. He has published a number of papers in international journals and is the author of several scientific monographs and study guides.

E-mail: holoshyn@kdpu.edu.ua