Born November 28 1949
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↓Born November 28 1949 year in the village of Mechislavka, Ulyanovsk district, Kirovograd region.
He graduated from the Gorlovka vocational school No. 25 as an electric locomotive driver, a school of culture in Alexandria. AT 1979 Graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Culture.
AT 1971 -1975 years - director of the House of Culture in Bolshiye Troyan, Ulyanovsk district house of culture, Kirovograd region.
1985 year - defended his thesis.
1990 year - defended his doctoral dissertation at the Leningrad Academy of Culture.
1993 year - appointed rector of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture. The author of the analytical model of the university of the XXI century.
1994 year - removed from the post of rector of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture.
1995 year - returned to the post of rector of KGIK.
AT 1999 founded his own chain of restaurants.
2000 year - awarded the Order of Mikhail Grushevsky IV degree For Rozbudova of Ukraine.
2002 year - elected people's deputy of Ukraine. He took up the post of Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Culture and Spirituality.
2004 year - Mykhailo Poplavsky was elected president of the international organization United Ukrainians of the World.
2005 year - on the initiative of M. Poplavsky, the opening of the Academy of Hairdressing and Decorative Cosmetics at the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts took place.
21 March 2009 M. Poplavsky became the owner of the title Person of the Year in the nomination Artist of the Year.
In November 2009 M. Poplavsky presents a jubilee edition - seven volumes, which includes: Rector, Genealogy of Mikhail Poplavsky (author M. Tkach), Anthology of modern Ukrainian variety art, Leadership as a brand, Image, Smak, Photoalbum.
In January 2010 2009, a nationwide television project Ukrainian Song of the Year was launched, the author of the idea and the general producer of which was M. Poplavsky.
Full Commander of the Order of Merit ( 2000 year 2001 year 2007 year).
August 23 2008 By the decree of the President of Ukraine, M. Poplavsky was awarded the title - People's Artist of Ukraine, as the general producer, chief director, author of the idea of creating the All-Ukrainian children's television competition Krok to Zirok.
Married. From this marriage there is a son, Alexander.
Place of Birth. Education. Born into a simple peasant family in the village of Mechislavka.
After school, he graduated from the Gorlovka vocational school with a degree in electric locomotive driver, after the army - a school of culture in Alexandria in the Kirovohrad region. In 1979 - Kyiv State Institute of Culture. In 1985 he defended his candidate's, and in 1990 - his doctoral dissertation at the Leningrad Academy of Culture.
Career. Before the army, he managed to work as an assistant driver of an electric locomotive at a mine in the city of Kirovsk.
At the end of the "cultural enlightenment" he worked as the director of several rural houses of culture in the Kirovohrad region.
In April 1993, by order of the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, he was appointed rector of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture (since 1997 - Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts).
In 1997, M. Poplavsky, as he himself explains, created a team to develop the concept of "university image communication". Within the framework of the idea and on the basis of the "stress theory", he entered the stage as a singer (with the song "Young Eagle"). The goal was to draw attention to the university, as well as to create a non-standard image of the head of the university.
In November of the same year, the first creative evening of Mikhail Poplavsky took place at the Palace "Ukraine" - "From love to Ukraine". In the same year, the rector was awarded the title of laureate of the national program "Person of the Year" in the nomination "Worker of Culture and Arts".
President of the international charitable foundation "Talented Children of Ukraine". Author and producer of the children's television project "Krok to Zirok" (since 1998).
From 1993-2015 - Rector of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.
Political career. In 1998, he ran for elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, constituency No. 100 (Kirovograd region), took 2nd place, 15.5% (votes).
In 2002-2006 Mikhail Poplavsky was a people's deputy of Ukraine of the IV convocation (he won the elections in one of the districts of the Kirovograd region). He served as Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Culture and Spirituality.
In 2010, he was elected as a deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council in constituency No. 63 (Irpin city).
In 2012, he ran for people's deputies in the majority constituency No. 91 (Kyiv region) as an independent candidate, but lost to the representative Ruslan Solvar (gained 16.97%).
Since January 15, 2014 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation, self-nominated in the repeat elections in single-mandate constituency No. 194 (Cherkasy region).
On January 16, 2014, he voted for "dictatorial laws" - a package of anti-democratic laws that significantly limited the rights of citizens and freedom of speech. In this regard, he is further prohibited by law from heading higher educational institutions.
In the 2014 parliamentary elections, he ran in the majority constituency No. 101 (Kirovograd region), receiving 31.45% of the vote. As a deputy, he joined the deputy group "Will of the People".
June 9, 2019 at the convention Agrarian Party of Ukraine Mikhail Poplavskyheaded the electoral list of the Agrarian Party in the parliamentary elections. As a result, in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, the Agrarian Party did not overcome the threshold of 5%.
Music album. 2012 - "With kindness to people."
Own. Chain of restaurants Kozak Hall, Batkivska Hata, Vareniki.
Regalia. He was awarded the orders of "Mikhail Grushevsky" ІV degree (2000), "For Merit" І degree (2007). People's Artist of Ukraine (2008).
09/10/2019The singing rector is going to introduce new specialties at his university, turning it into a small Ukrainian Hollywood
Here Mikhail Mikhailovich knows how to please, no matter what they say. And how does he do it? It passes through its own university - all the students greet them with a smile. And if she talks to someone, happiness in the eyes of the girl shines. Even the coffee in the student cafe at Poplavsky's is not simple, but "Junius Eagle". Mikhail Mikhailovich personally controls the quality of the purchase, so that the grains are the most selected, as they say. And the price of a serving is ridiculous - one hryvnia. By the way, the rector himself often visits the student Internet cafe. He will sit at a table in the corner with a cup of aromatic coffee, chat with students and go up to his office. There is a creative mess on the table of the singing rector: a lot of papers, five telephones, several silver figurines, photographs of mother, wife and son. Mikhail Poplavsky is not friends with a computer. Everything is kept in mind. Therefore, four images from university surveillance cameras are constantly displayed on the monitor, keeping abreast, so to speak.
“I don’t give paid concerts. Poplavsky is priceless"
Well, Mikhail Mikhailovich, the next Eurovision will again take place without you. But they promised to participate
I will say this - the teacher is always proud of his students.
Are you talking about Danilko?
Who else! Considering that Eurovision is not a competition for vocalists, but a show, I think Andrey will represent Ukraine quite adequately. I just… did not want to “tear” Europe. Although, I confess, the diaspora is very actively inviting me on tour with the hits “Salo”, “Varenichki”, “Borsch”.
You, most importantly, do not forget to take a backup dancer with you - luxurious girls weighing under a hundred kilograms.
Oh, where would I be without them! This is my favorite ballet "Peach". Exclusive! There is definitely no other like it in Europe. For two hours, while the show lasts, the audience just goes crazy.
Is Poplavsky's show expensive?
When my team was thinking at what price to sell tickets for a concert at the Palace "Ukraine" (and there were a huge number of applicants), everyone came to the conclusion: I simply do not have a price. Poplavsky is priceless! So I don't give paid concerts.
Sing for the soul, then.
You know, when the first full-scale PR project “Singing Rector” was born in Ukraine, everyone at first thought that I was a singer. And I never aspired to absolute vocals.
Well, did you sing as a child?
Everyone in our family sang - mother, father, brothers. And I'm the worst. But he played the drums masterfully. Seriously! On the drum set, when he led the rural house of culture. Then VIA were in vogue - vocal and instrumental ensembles. Ours was called Meridian. And I sang involuntarily.
Forced?
Life forced. At one of the meetings here, then at the Institute of Culture, in the evening, thinking about the promotion of the university, my guys say: “Come on, Mikhail Mikhailovich, sing! Only when you step on stage will you attract maximum attention.” Me: “What are you? With my status as a rector, and the age is not the same. In addition, my figure, frankly, is far from the parameters of Alain Delon. Such a little Winnie the Pooh.
Don't talk about yourself.
No, of course I'm pretty when I go on stage. All in all, I finally gave up. They said that if I want to make a prestigious university out of a bag, I have to go for experiments. The one who sees tomorrow wins. So I became an experimental platform for the then Kyiv Institute of Culture named after Alexander Korneichuk.
In general, they put their talent on the altar of art.
And you know, not everyone understood until now that it was just a PR move! That in fact I sang not at the behest of the soul, but out of necessity. Motherland said: it is necessary! And I, as an obedient soldier (at least in the past), answered: yes! Today you can treat me differently as a singer, but our university is popular. It is a fact.
“It was hard for me to enter into the image of the “young eagle”. But it turned out to be even more difficult to get out of it. ”
I personally saw how the audience cried in the hall of the Palace "Ukraine" at your concert.
You know, I go out to the viewer absolutely sincere, and people feel false. You see, I have never suffered from excessive modesty. And I do not advise you to do this. Modesty is the shortest path to obscurity and poverty. So, it was very difficult for me to enter the image of the “young eagle”. But it turned out to be even more difficult to get out of it.
By the way, some gloated: they say, Poplavsky returned to the stage to earn extra money, to spend money.
This is what you can't wait for! And don't hope
They say that you have now also become a farmer, and quite a large one at that.
I inherited more than two hectares of land from my father. And when businessmen came to our village who wished to buy plots for themselves, the villagers turned to me to become the chairman of the union of owners of land shares.
Simply put, the chairman of the collective farm.
Something like that. So now I have 3,800 hectares of land. Well, until you make a lot of money from it. The market situation with grain and sugar beets is unstable
Do you have gardens?
No. We mainly grow grain crops - wheat, sunflower, corn, peas. This month we will buy American harvesters equipped with computers.
Do you visit the area often?
Saturdays and Sundays are a must. I hold meetings with tractor drivers, I go out into the field. I do enjoy this! I myself am from the village and I know what ungrateful peasant labor is. Who is left in the villages? Old people mostly. I wanted to take my mother to Kyiv. She spent one night with me in Poznyaki in an apartment located on the tenth floor, and said: "Misha, I'll die or take me back."
Do you really live in Poznyaki? Or do you have a penthouse there?
What are you talking about! I don't even know those words. Ordinary apartment. Now, however, I rent a house near Kyiv. Small, four rooms. I'm going to build my own (along the Odessa highway).
To be closer to your chain of restaurants? How many do you already have?
Four. But they're not just mine. This is the business of the Poplavsky family. I just “roof” them as a senior. (Laughs.) In fact, I am proud of my restaurants, because the service there is at the European level.
It's time to open in Kyiv, Mikhail Mikhailovich.
I agree, but only together with the FACTS newspaper. It is difficult in the capital - rent is expensive, and suitable premises cannot be found.
Lucky your competitors. Otherwise, with your cabbage, you would have lured all their visitors.
You tried, you know. By the way, cabbage is made according to my recipe. With pork ribs in a bread crust. My signature dish is okroshka, which is served in an ice bowl. And homemade sausage! We have a private farm - 500 pigs. We slaughter a young pig weighing up to 90 kilograms at four in the morning, and at seven - fresh meat is already delivered to all restaurants. I categorically forbade freezing meat. Not the same taste at all!
Vodka is also your production?
Previously, my mother drove moonshine - 60 degrees - for the Batkivska Khata restaurant. She had such a business. I earned up to one and a half thousand hryvnias per month. I passed the product through a carbon filter - pure Scotch whiskey! Now we are launching a small line - five types of vodka under the Kropiva trademark. True, I always have five liters of 60-degree Kropiva moonshine and five liters of Medovukha, which instantly hits the legs, for my people in Batkivsky Khati. Not for sale.
How much can you take on your chest?
I can afford 50-100 grams of my mother's Kropiva. In small doses, it is even very useful. Sometimes I drink cognac. Just not in large quantities. And for a good snack. Have you tried our dumplings?
Haven't had to yet. What are you doing with?
We have 50 types! Dumplings are a whole national ideology! I'm a Ukrainian up to the eighth generation. Although many for some reason consider me a Jew. I agree - a Jew, but Ukrainian. He told Dmitry Gordon in his program: “Dima, we are all Jews. In life…” So, I think: if a Ukrainian has not eaten 50 types of dumplings in his life, he is not a Ukrainian. And we have both nettle and rhubarb as a filling. Vareniki has been my favorite dish since childhood. Grandmother Nadia sculpted them especially for me tiny, and my mother - big, like pies. Once she had to mess around. The farm is big, we are three boys, just have time to serve. My parents' first child died two weeks after birth, the second girl also did not live long. I was third. The priests and I were baptized, and passed through the window, they met my mother from the maternity hospital with towels. There was a whole ceremony so that I could only survive.
“A man is the one who has money and everything. And the male has only ... "everything else"
Were you weak?
Yes, butuz! They were fed with hominy, cabbage, bacon (so yellow) and cherry compote. I had a terrible sweet tooth (and I still have), and my favorite treat is sucking sweets - small round candies in a box. There was no such thing as a diet then. And now ... There should be a lot of good things.
Is it true that you sometimes cook borsch yourself in a restaurant?
And then! It's made according to my recipe. I even fired three chefs for not being consistent. First, the ribs are cooked, but the meat should not lag behind the bones. Then the broth is infused for two hours, then we add the stewed vegetables there and let it stand again. The main thing when serving to the client is not to forget about sour cream. Relish! Homemade, oily. After all, we, Ukrainians, what can we give?
Yes, like everyone else - bread and circuses!
Here we give food, and we will deal with the spectacles
Someone, but you do not have to go far for this. Just to my university.
Note: we are unique in our kind on the Ukrainian education market. Today, everyone wants to be a star. Please! I am a living example. Imitate your dad!
Is that what they call you at the university?
Another dad. And they are treated with awe and respect. The main thing is that the family should be in order. Since the beginning of the academic year, we have introduced new specialties: fashion designer, interior designer, landscape designer. Future fashion designers are patronized by our famous couturier Mikhail Voronin, for whom, by the way, I sew all my costumes. We open the Department of International Relations, Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations, Institute of Translators and Computer Science. We train actors, directors of drama theater, stage, film and television, cameramen. In general, such a small Ukrainian Hollywood
Where do you get energy for all your projects?
Among women!
Are you using us?
Why so at once - I use. I am charging. You encourage us. After all, every representative of the stronger sex wants to realize himself as a man. True, we have more than half - males.
What, is there a difference?
Of course! The man is the one who has money and everything. And the male has only ... "everything else." But after all, in order to take possession of a woman, you must first charm her, give gifts, court
What was the last gift?
I thought diamonds.
I'm not that rich.
What are you pampering yourself with?
I don't even know the word. You know, Ani Lorak was once asked about her attitude towards Poplavsky. She replied: “Oh, he is such a prankster!”
Did you have a relationship?
There were, but then she contacted the Turk. (Laughs.) I kept saying: “Carolina, don’t you have enough Ukrainians?” In general, I'm more of a minion of fate. Parents took care of me from childhood, and from an early age I myself knew how to stand up for myself. I was already in business in the third grade.
Kind of early.
Just right! In the morning before school, I ran to the river, fished and sold two or three kilograms of carp to our local fortune teller. She paid me five rubles for them. In those days, a lot of money for a child! I remember saving up and buying shoes. With long noses and heels. And to them pants with a pipe. There was the first mod in the village! He continued his business until the tenth grade.
Did you ask the fortune-teller about your fate?
I'm not mom. The fortune-teller said that Misha, like a sparrow, will fly out of the nest. And in life, as if on stairs, it will climb. I don't really believe in these guesses. And so I know what will happen.
And what?
And tomorrow will be a day again ... Our fate is in our hands. You can't wait for someone to come and do it for you. This has been verified by my own experience.
Do you have enemies, Mikhail Mikhailovich?
I call them opponents. I didn’t hurt anyone in my life, I didn’t criticize anyone, I didn’t cross the road for anyone. Went through life with an open visor. Accept me the way I am!
By the way, did you return to the stage for a long time?
Who said I was leaving? If my songs sound, then someone needs it
Mikhail Mikhailovich Poplavsky - Ukrainian singer, rector of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts in 1993-2015, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, People's Artist of Ukraine, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th, 7th and 8th convocations.
Mikhail Mikhailovich was born on November 28, 1949, in a peasant family in the village of Mechislavka, Kirovograd region.
A family
Mikhail's wife is Lyudmila, with her they were engaged in raising their son Alexander, born in 1982.
Education
After graduating from school, he enters the Pedagogical Technical College, after which he was educated as an "electric locomotive driver". After serving in the army, he enters the school of culture in the Kirovohrad region. Then he was educated at the Kiev National Institute of Culture and Arts, which he graduated with honors. Six years later, Mikhail Mikhailovich defended his Ph.D., and five more years later, his doctoral dissertation at the Leningrad Academy of Culture, and after that he became a doctor of science in the management and economics of the sociocultural sphere.
Career and business
It is now the rector of the university who has a stable income and freely manages finances. When Mikhail was still at school, he was already moonlighting, it was on the collective farm, where he helped the combine operator. The next place of work was in the field of construction, he was a bricklayer during the construction of rural roads.
Having received his first education at the Gorlovsky Pedagogical Institute, he went to work in his specialty - a machinist at a mine in the Donetsk region. From working specialties he moved to the cultural sphere of activity. So, for three years, Poplavsky was the director of the rural House of Culture in the Great Troyans. The leadership was beneficial, due to the fact that during his management the house of culture won championships in various competitions and festivals, and also received a number of awards and letters of thanks.
After that, he held a new position, now he is appointed deputy director of the People's House of Creativity of the Ukrainian SSR.
During the defense of his candidate, he works at the Institute of Culture in various positions, from a simple teacher to the dean of one of the faculties. Among students, he is popular and respected. They often came to him for advice.
1993 becomes an important year in the career of Mikhail Mikhailovich Poplavsky, according to the Decree of the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Mikhail Poplavsky, he is appointed rector of this Kyiv Institute of Culture.
Mikhail Poplavsky
A year after receiving a new title of rector for himself, Mikhail Poplavsky becomes a professor and is recommended for the post of Minister of Culture of Ukraine.
But during this period of time, different groups of the population wanted to compete for this chair, which contributed to the fact that Mikhail Poplavsky was removed from the post of rector of the above-named institute.
Fighting for his position as rector, Poplavsky had a chance to go through three difficult trials, after which he still managed to return this illegally taken position. Moreover, the support of several hundred students played a big role in this. Student youth literally picketed the Supreme Council and the Cabinet of Ministers defending the rights of their rector.
Poplavsky, in the spirit of an experimenter, gathers his team and with his song "Young Eagle" and style of clothing literally creates the image style of the university, which has stuck with him for many years. Such a "chip" attracted both investments and the flow of students, that new departments and faculties began to open at the university, and soon the concept of the university is completely changing.
Poplavsky is not the only child in the family, he has two brothers Stanislav and Vladimir, and they jointly open a chain of restaurants called Father's House. The location of the restaurant on the stretch of road between Odessa and Kyiv.
Satisfied with various cultural and creative life, Poplavsky decided to go into politics. And he immediately makes an attempt and puts forward his candidacy for the Verkhovna Rada in the Kirovograd district. The first attempt was relatively successful because Poplavsky was able to take second place, while receiving the support of more than 15% of the vote. In 2002, Poplavsky decided to thoroughly gain a foothold in politics. The growth of the artist in politics is rapidly gaining momentum, and he is running for election to people's deputies in one of the districts of the Kyiv region. This time, the confidence of voters is much greater than the first time, and he is gaining more than 48% of the vote. By running for local elections in the capital from the Pechersk region, the rector of the university wins and becomes a people's deputy of the 4th convocation. In this cadence of the people's deputy, he is from 2002 to 2006.
In parallel with the position of deputy, he holds the position of president of the public organization "Association of Ukrainians of the world." Since 2005, he has been joining the ranks of the Lytvyn Bloc. A year after that, Poplavsky decides to run for the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation from the Third Force party, but this time he failed to get into the Verkhovna Rada.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Poplavsky
Since 2010, he has been elected to the ranks of a deputy to the Kyiv Regional Council from the city of Irpin.
The next attempt to put his candidacy in the elections, Mikhail Mikhailovich receives in 2012, and here he also receives a victory in constituency No. 194 in the Cherkasy region. Two years later, Mikhail Poplavsky was elected to the People's Deputies of Ukraine of the 7th convocation. While early parliamentary elections were held in the same year, Mikhail Mikhailovich won in one of the constituencies in the Kirovograd region.
Since 2014, Mikhail Mikhailovich has already been known as a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, and is also a representative of the Will of the People parliamentary group. In the same year, the people's deputy votes for "dictatorial laws" and the whole package of anti-democratic laws, and they, in turn, greatly oppress the rights of citizens and freedom of speech. As a result, in response, he is limited by law by prohibiting the head of any higher educational institutions.
Compromise and rumors
A scandal erupted over the name of Mikhail Poplavsky, regarding the fact that he had hidden the mansion and he appropriated the site, which was previously allocated for housing to students. While filling out his declaration, Mikhail Mikhailovich indicated one inconspicuous apartment in Poznyaki in the city of Kyiv, the area of \u200b\u200bwhich is 75.8 square meters. As it was found out later, Mikhail Mikhailovich hid the presence of a huge country house in Bortnichi near Kyiv, its area is more than 1000 square meters, there is a sauna and a private lake on the site. From the documents that were found during the investigation, it is known that the vice-rector of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Natalya Gaisinyuk rents the house, and the house itself is registered with her 71-year-old father Anatoly Kapelyushny. But despite this, all residents of the area claim that Mikhail Poplavsky is the actual owner of this house, who quite often uploads photos from this house to his pages on social networks.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Poplavsky(Ukrainian Mikhailo Mikhailovich Poplavsky; born November 28, 1949, Mechislavka village, Ulyanovsk district, Kirovograd region) - Ukrainian singer and rector of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts in 1993-2015, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences (1991), Professor (1994) , People's Artist of Ukraine (2008), People's Deputy of Ukraine IV, VII and VIII convocations.
Biography
Born on November 28, 1949 in the village of Mechislavka, Ulyanovsk district, Kirovograd region, in a family of collective farmers.
- 1967-1968 - student of vocational school, Gorlovka.
- 1968 - electric locomotive driver of mine No. 6, Kirovskoye, Donetsk region.
- Since 1968 - service in the army in a motorized rifle company of the Belarusian Military District.
- 1971-1973 - director of the Velikotroyanovsky rural house of culture.
- 1973-1975 - director of the Ulyanovsk regional house of culture of the Kirovograd region.
- 1975-1979 - student, chairman of the trade union committee, KDIK.
- 1979 - Deputy Director of the Republican House of Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR.
He studied at the postgraduate course of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.
- Since 1985 - Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Head of the Department, Dean of the Faculty.
- In 1990 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Leningrad Academy of Culture.
- In 1993-2015, he was the rector of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Poplavsky was born in the village of Mechislavka, Kirovograd region, into a peasant family. He began his career back in his school years: he worked on a collective farm as an assistant combine operator, then as a bricklayer on the construction of rural roads. After graduating from school, he entered the Gorlovka vocational school No. 109 (Donetsk region), which he graduated in 1968 with a degree in electric locomotive driver. After graduation, he worked as an electric locomotive driver at mine No. 6 in Kirovsk, Donetsk region.
1969 - service in the ranks of the armed forces of the USSR where he was awarded the medal "For Military Valor". After the service he graduated from the School of Culture in Alexandria.
1971 1973 - director of the rural House of Culture in Velikie Troyany; brought him to the first places in the region.
1973 - director of the Ulyanovsk regional House of culture of the Kirovograd region.
1975 - Entered the Kyiv State Institute of Culture, which he graduated with honors in 1979. In his student years, he was elected head of the trade union committee of the Institute of Culture, commander of the united student construction teams in Kyiv in the Tyumen region.
1980 - Deputy Director of the Republican House of Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR.
1985 - defended his thesis at the Academy of Vocational Education at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, at that time he worked at the Kiev State Institute of Culture as a teacher, senior lecturer, associate professor, professor, head of the department, dean of the faculty. He has always been a leader among student youth, had high authority and respect.
February 8, 1991 - defended his doctoral dissertation at the Leningrad Academy of Culture - became the first and only doctor of science in Ukraine in the management and economics of the socio-cultural sphere.
April 21, 1993 - By decree of the Minister of Culture of Ukraine I. N. Dziuba, he was appointed rector of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture, becoming the youngest rector in Ukraine. He began radical reforms in the system of training personnel for the socio-cultural sphere.
April 21, 1994 - received the title of professor, was recommended by cultural and art figures for the post of Minister of Culture of Ukraine. began the struggle of different groups for the chair of the minister, as a result of which, on January 5, 1995, M. Poplavsky was illegally removed from the post of rector of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture.
On October 20, 1995, after three lawsuits, with the strong support of students who picketed the Supreme Council and the Cabinet of Ministers, Mikhail Poplavsky returned to the post of rector of the institute.
