Dr. Myroslav Syvyi, Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Methods of Teaching, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine. Myroslav Syvyi, born in 1950, received the degree of Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (Dr. Ph) of Artem Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute in 1979 and the degree of Doctor of Geographical Sciences (Dr. habil.) of Ivan Franko National University in 2005. Since 1983 he has been working at the Department of Geography of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, the Head of which he is now. His research interests include structural geography, geology of solid fossil fuels, and natural geography. He has published a number of works in editions indexed by Scopus and WOS, more than a dozen monographs; he is the editor-in-chief of the Scientific Notes of Ternopil V. Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Series: Geography; he is the member of the editorial board of the Ecological Safety and Balanced Use of Resources journal (Ivano-Frankivsk).