Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk (Ukrainian: ????? ???????? ???-??????) was born on May 28, 1971 in Dunaivtsi of Western Podillya (Khmelnytskyi Oblast), Soviet Union and is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Senior Research Scientist at I.F.Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kyiv), Head of Department of Historical Studies at the Scientific Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies (Kyiv), and Ukrainian poet (Laureate International Literature Prize I.Koshelivets by 2013).