Anna Olenenko is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Khortytsia National Academy (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) and a member of European Society for Environmental History and Y. Novytskyi Zaporizhia Scientific Society. She graduated from Zaporizhia National University in 2007 and got her PhD in history from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2013. Anna’s research interests are related to the environmental history of Ukraine, especially the Steppe region. She investigates all kinds of nature transformations in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the historical memory about it. Anna has presented the results of her research at the conferences in Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, China, and Canada.