Tolochko’s scientific interests cover the history of eastern Slavs, Kievan Rus, Ukrainian Middle Ages, shaping of the Ukrainian statehood, formation of the political nation, civil society and its elite.

Tolochko is the author of more than 300 scientific works, including 30 monographs, 100 popular science and more than 200 journalistic and fiction works.

Tolochko was one of the organizers and, since 1989, the Head of the Ukrainian Society of Historical and Cultural Heritage Protection.

Titles

Member of Executive Committee and Head of National Committee of International Union of Slavic Archaeology, corresponding member of Central German Archaeological Institute (Berlin), member of Academy of Europe (London), foreign member of Russian Academy of Sciences (2011).

Awards

Laureate of State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in Science and Technology (1983), State Prize of Ukraine (2002). Awarded Order of the Badge of Honor (1982), Order of Yaroslav the Wise, Class V (1998), IV (2003) and Class III (2013).