LIKE A BOAT IN A STORMY SEA

Abstract

As a rule, graduates of the historical faculty of Odessa State University named after II Mechnikov in Soviet times rarely received a second education. In those years, the profession of historian allowed to work in various fields without being rigidly tied to the list of job responsibilities. However, sometimes there were conditions when a new position required new professional knowledge and at the written request of the institution the person received a referral to a new higher education institution. Among such historians was a 1973 graduate Valery Dmitrievich Varzatsky.