Sossa, Rostyslav Ivanovich (sold) (Сосса Ростислав Іванович)
Rostyslav Ivanovich Sossa (Ростислав Іванович Сосса; October 21, 1956 - present) is a renowned Ukrainian cartographer and geographer. Born in Ternopil Oblast, he studied cartography and graduated with honors from the Taras Shevchenko University in 1979. Afterwards, he worked at the Scientific-Editorial Cartographic Enterprise of the Main Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a state-owned research institute and publisher that evolved into today's Ukrainian state-owned DNVP "Kartografiya" (ДНВП «Картографія»). From 1991 - 1994, he served as the director of the newly-founded map and atlas publisher Mapa Ltd. (Мапа ЛТД). He then took on leadership positions with DNVP "Kartografiya" and the State Service of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (Укргеодезкартогра́фія). He later took up a professorship at the Lviv Polytechnic National University, was affiliated with the Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and served as the President of the Cartographic Association of Ukraine.
AKA: Сосса Ростислав Іванович
Slava Ukraini!
A rare and remarkable work, this is the first map of modern, independent Ukraine printed after the breakup of the Soviet Union. It was prepared by Rostyslav Sossa and published in 1992 by Mapa Ltd., a recently-founded private enterprise. (more details)