He is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and a professor of the Chernihiv Collegium.
[1] Polovets was born in an old Ruthenian (Ukrainian) village of Vepryk (Bobrovytsia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast) on 2 January 1937.
In 1958 he graduated the History and Philosophy faculty of the Nizhyn Gogol State University.
In 1972 Polovets successfully defended his graduate thesis titled as "Development of economical cooperation of Union republics during years of the first five-year plan".
[2] He worked as the Soviet communist official in the Ukrainian SSR.