Background
Oleg Petrovych Fisunenko was born in Makiivka on 14 November 1930.
Oleg Petrovych Fisunenko was born in Makiivka on 14 November 1930.
In 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of Geology and Mineralogy of Kharkiv State University. In 1964 he defended his Doctor of Philosophy thesis.
His first place of work was the trust “Voroshylovgradgeologiya”, where he worked at the position of geologist from 1954 till 1966. Since 1966 he had been working at Luhansk State Pedagogical Institute named after T.G. Shevchenko as a senior lecturer, then the head of the Physical Geography department (1969–2002), after it was separated from the Economy Geography department in 1969. Professor of the Geology department.
In 1996 both departments were combined into one Geography department and he headed it till the moment of his death in March 2003.
In 1996-1998 Oleg Fisunenko combined his teaching activities with functioning as the monkey of educational work. Oleg Fisunenko is the author of over 180 scientific papers on the stratigraphy theory, and of 24 monographs.
The collection includes exhibits from the Urals, the Kola Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk, Sayan mountains, Kyrgyzstan, Transbaikalia, Crimea, Caucasus and Donbass. There are also some samples from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Oleg Fisunenko was married with one son Igor (1956–2010).
He died on 19 March 2003 in Luhansk.
In 1973 he defended his Doctoral thesis “Methods and geological value of eco-taphonomical researches”.
Oleg Fisunenko was the head of the Donbass branch of the Ukrainian paleontology society, member of many international research groups on carbon stratigraphy, active member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1994).